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Duke students who don't live in North Carolina aren’t able to be paid for hourly positions directly by the University. Instead, this semester they'll be paid through Aerotek, a Maryland-based staffing and recruiting agency.
In past election seasons, students have gathered in lecture halls and common rooms on campus to watch debates over shared food and lively discussion, but this year they’ll have to log on to Zoom to watch the debates in the company of classmates.
Cries of “Say her name, Breonna Taylor!” rang outside the Durham police department headquarters, where more than 100 protesters, dressed in black, congregated in front of the building.
As a unique semester moves forward, fewer students are along for the ride than last year.
Duke will provide new information on spring semester housing the second week of October, with information on the format of spring courses likely coming then as well, Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president of student affairs, told the Duke Student Government Senate at its Wednesday meeting.
The Chronicle worked with six other student newsrooms across North Carolina to profile every General Assembly candidate in Orange, Mecklenburg, Wake, Guilford, Pitt, Durham and Watauga counties.
For formerly incarcerated people in North Carolina, the beginning of September brought news of re-enfranchisement just eight weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
Flu shots are required this year, and Duke is offering free flu clinics to help with the process.
Duke acquired housing in the apartments in June as part of an effort to reduce residential density to combat the spread of the coronavirus. From amenities to the close proximity to 9th Street, the apartments are living up to or even exceeding the expectations of their residents.
At Duke's Living While Black symposium in June, Provost Sally Kornbluth said that 39% of Black students admitted to the Class of 2024 matriculated to the University, compared to 68% of white students admitted. This statistic points to a need to create a more welcoming environment for Black students, she said.
The Pratt School of Engineering will host the first meeting later this month for its new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Committee. The committee includes faculty, staff, and graduate and undergraduate students from each Pratt department and will work to create positive change in the way of diversity, equity, inclusion and community in Pratt.
Sophomores Alec James and Will Reynolds founded You Change Earth, a website that provides users with a personalized guide to climate action.
The number of hand sanitizer dispensers available on campus has increased drastically compared to previous semesters, as part of Duke’s effort to combat the spread of COVID-19.
There were nine new positive coronavirus tests at Duke between Sept. 12 and Sept. 18, out of 12,313 total tests, according to data released Monday on the University’s COVID-19 testing tracker.
At an Aug. 27 Black Lives Matter protest at Krzyzewskiville, Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke distinguished professor of African and African American Studies, was joined by men's basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski, women's basketball head coach Kara Lawson and several student-athletes to address a gathered crowd. The Chronicle spoke to Neal about the protest and Duke'su2014and the nation'su2014role in promoting racial justice.
The FLUNCH program has been part of Duke student life for years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, structured faculty meetings are about to look very different this semester.
Amid a pandemic and a movement to abolish the Greek organizations associated with the Duke Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council, both groups are taking a new look at rush.
If the the entry tests Duke performed on the general student body had come back positive for COVID-19 at the same rate as July entry tests for student-athletes, Duke would have had around 340 positive cases as students returned to campus. But only 24 Duke students tested positive for the coronavirus upon entry after Aug. 2.
Tim Walsh, Duke’s vice president for finance, will leave the University at the beginning of October.
Groups of students gathered outside of Gilbert-Addoms dorm on East Campus the night of Aug. 12, chatting and partying less than six feet apart. First-year Angela Torrejon felt that a lack of adult supervision potentially caused these gatherings and that not much was put in place to prevent them.
