According to the release, Duke will also provide additional aid for Carolinian undergraduates with family incomes of $65,000 or less for “housing, meals and some course materials or other campus expenses, without the need for student loans.”
Madagascar regulations mandate foreign researchers to collaborate with Malagasy researchers that are at a similar career stage, according to Shearer.
Gov. Roy Cooper signed House Bill 347, the Sports Wagering Bill, into law Wednesday, legalizing sports betting across the state.
Though the report was published internally at Duke in December of 2022, the community association of the Walltown neighborhood held a Durham-wide meeting on Monday to discuss the findings from the report. The meeting was held after a neighborhood resident discovered the thesis on their own, according to Brandon Williams, Trinity ‘06 and Divinity School ‘13 and another resident of Walltown.
This week, the Triangle area will celebrate Juneteenth, now recognized as a federal holiday, with festivals, tours, fashion shows and more.
In fall 2022, Duke implemented the first iteration of its newly-designed Experiential Orientation program, which administrators dubbed the biggest change to new student programming at the University in almost 30 years.
The faculty members believe the listening-focused minor is just as rigorous as the score-focused one, despite lacking a music theory requirement. Bagg pointed out that many of the courses in the listening-focused minor are analogous to those in the score-focused one.
According to the announcement, masking will continue to be required in areas that have “always required masking as part of routine precautions” and as part of “transmission-based isolation precautions,” such as under the DUHS Standard and Transmission-based Policy.
Guttentag was named director of Duke’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions in 1992 and was first named dean of undergraduate admissions in 2006. He will begin his new term as dean on July 1, per the announcement.
The Care for Women, Children and Families Act, which goes into effect July 1, passed into law after Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly overrode Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of the bill in May.
However, Biden’s student loan relief plan remains viable despite new spending restrictions. The Fiscal Responsibility Act bars further pauses on student loan payments but does not inhibit Biden's student debt forgiveness plan.
Duke Health officials wrote that the positions would be reduced primarily through “retirements, redeployments and closures of vacant positions.”
As people gear up for a June full of festivities, the Triangle area is celebrating Pride Month with a host of events ranging from comedy shows to food truck rodeos.
According to plans filed in December with the Durham County Planning Department, two buildings just outside the Brightleaf District — 800 and 806 West Main Street — will be removed and replaced by a seven-story retail and restaurant space with an attached parking garage.
When students heard the news of their closures, many took to Twitter to voice their concerns, with one user stating that they were “in shambles.”
The pioneers of this year’s Chron15 list have brought the University newfound athletic success, created new academic and research programs and helped grow Duke's vibrant arts culture.
The leaders featured on this year’s Chron15 list are organizations, student leaders and faculty who used their power for good as they helped make Duke a safer place, lent a listening ear and worked tirelessly to improve the Duke experience.
Chron15 hopes to celebrate the icons, leaders and pioneers that have been so instrumental in making the University a place we’ll be proud of in the future, but also those who have made Duke the place we know and love today.
The icons on this year’s Chron15 list are beloved by the University community. They are people and places that spread joy, knowledge and Blue Devil pride.
Submitted by readers and divided among three categories — icons, leaders and pioneers — our selections are all individuals or groups defining what it means to be a member of the Duke community in 2022 and 2023.
