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Student Affairs is undergoing changes in leadership and structure, particularly within Housing and Residence Life, with the former head of HRL now working on pandemic planning.
National and local organizations associated with 13 of Duke’s Panhel and IFC chapters gave a total of more than $200,000 to the hybrid political action committee between 2013 and 2020.
In addition, 11 more students have faced sanctions that could be included on their disciplinary record, since Duke’s last conduct update Oct. 30.
Despite the excitement and relief brought by news of highly effective COVID-19 vaccines that will likely soon be approved by U.S. regulators, their large-scale manufacturing and distribution is wrought with issues and complexities.
Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), Trinity ‘75, says he plans to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. In an interview with Politico, he cited widespread voter fraud, for which there is no evidence, as the basis of his opposition.
In the midst of many lost opportunities due to the pandemic, Duke’s work-study program has persisted by making adjustments to align with new safety regulations.
First-year Aden Clemente has a dilemma: too many food points. Clemente is one of many first-years living on West Campus this fall who received atypical food plans—with no Marketplace swipes or Trinity Café equivalency—and were awash with food points.
Here’s a roundup of what we know so far about the spring 2021 semester.
There were 24 new positive coronavirus tests reported at Duke between Nov. 14 and Nov. 20, out of 15,532 total tests, according to data released Monday on the University’s COVID-19 testing tracker.
This year, 953 students applied to travel to the University of Oxford on the all-expenses-paid Rhodes Scholarship. Two of the 32 recipients, seniors Jamal Burns and Kendall Jefferys, hail from Duke, becoming the University's 51st and 52nd recipients.
In a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, Duke researchers found that the University’s COVID-19 pool testing system successfully slowed the spread of COVID-19 on campus.
Administrators gave updates on Duke’s anti-racism initiatives at the Academic Council’s Thursday meeting.
Duke has four possible plans for the start of the spring semester, including the current plan and three contingency options if COVID-19 rates are higher than expected, Executive Vice Provost Jennifer Francis told the Academic Council at its Thursday meeting.
Rush is moving to sophomore year and Duke is setting up a new “residential community” system on West Campus, as part of the guidelines for a committee that will rethink the Duke housing experience.
West Campus' Craven Quad is named for Braxton Craven, a president of Duke's predecessor Trinity College—and a slaveowner and supporter of the Confederacy.
Although adjusting to a fully virtual recruiting environment presents both challenges and opportunities, the Duke Career Center is lending a hand to students.
Lefkowitz’s memoir “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline-Fueled Adventures of an Accidental Scientist” is set to be released in February of next year. The story builds up to the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry that he shared with his mentee Brian Kobilka. He also shares his experiences as a trained cardiologist who was diagnosed with a heart disease.
The number of positive faculty tests is an increase of five from last week, and is the highest total since Duke began regularly releasing testing data. The number of student positives is a decrease of one from last week.
Numerous Duke professors have publicly shared their thoughts on the election, both before and after Election Day.
Boy, October seems like an eternity ago, doesn’t it? Halloween was only two weeks ago. Spooky.
