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Housing and Residence Life is still “experiencing higher than normal demand for on campus housing” and cannot guarantee all roommate requests will be met.
Duke experts were part of a team that was the first to ever provide enzyme replacement therapy to a fetus to treat infantile-onset Pompe disease.
Duke will end asymptomatic surveillance testing on campus on March 10.
Pearson, as part of the school's Senior Leadership Group, will work to ensure Sanford “embraces all its members and educates leaders prepared to engage policy problems with a keen understanding of systemic racism and other manifestations of structural inequality,” per the release.
The SHAPE and SAPT training will cover safe rush events, party protocols, consent, bystander intervention, power dynamics in Greek life, Duke’s culture of sexual assault/harassment and resources for survivors.
“We're still a very fossil fuel dependent institution. And so divestment would be symbolic,” said Gina-Gail Fletcher, chair of the ACIR. “It wouldn't have the type of wide scale impact that I believe that we all hope it would.”
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Moore v. Harper to decide if the North Carolina Supreme Court has the authority to nullify the North Carolina General Assembly’s illegally gerrymandered congressional map for violating the state constitution.
Despite cooling down since their peak this summer, housing costs in Durham have witnessed upward momentum since the pandemic began in 2020. This has aligned with trends in other growing cities in the Triangle area and throughout North Carolina.
This year’s Durham School Days program on Nov. 18 was back in-person for the first time since the pandemic. The annual program aims to encourage middle school students to pursue a college education, especially those who would become first-generation college students.
Since QuadEx's announcement last fall, Duke has expressed a goal of making sure each quad “will develop its own identity, traditions and social events.” Creators, most of whom are students, hope to use the Arches to develop community pride.
If you’re in need of a quick study break, here are some ideas to practice self-care and stay afloat during these last weeks on campus.
Community members gathered for a vigil Thursday night at the Goodson Chapel to honor the four students at the University of Idaho and three at the University of Virginia who died in separate tragedies on Nov. 13.
FTX executives’ moves appeared to be part of a nationwide lobbying effort to shape cryptocurrency regulation.
The Duke Global Health Institute’s hybrid course teaches students both at Duke and in Rwanda about how health systems can address the lack of access to surgery in low and middle-income countries.
Kornbluth will begin her new role as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Jan. 1.
Duke obtains all of its drinking water from the City of Durham.
The Duke Hunting and Conservation Club, a new student organization that received DSG approval this spring, seeks to “create a space for undergraduate students who are passionate about hunting and its role in environmental conservation.”
The vigil will take place at Goodson Chapel from 7-8 p.m. Thursday.
A panel of three judges from the N.C. Court of Appeals agreed with the plaintiff’s appeal, writing that Evans did not “make written findings of fact supported by competent evidence supporting its conclusions of law,” according to the decision filed on Nov. 15.
Durham residents, including Duke students, can use an online mapping tool to submit ideas until Dec. 10 about where they would like to see part of the budget used and why. Proposed projects must benefit the public, be a one-time cost, and be capital projects.
