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There were 20 new positive coronavirus tests reported at Duke between Sept. 26 and Oct. 2, out of 14,554 total tests, according to data released Monday on the University’s COVID-19 testing tracker.
Despite filling out their daily symptom monitoring survey on time, some students have still had their DukeCards deactivated due to technological issues the Office of Information Technology is working to fix.
Four campus organizations have been placed on suspension since Aug. 7, and six individual students have received interim suspensions, Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president for student affairs, and Gary Bennett, vice provost for undergraduate education, wrote in a Friday email to undergraduates.
Duke announced Friday that all students who request spring housing will be able to live on campus.
When morning dawned Sept. 9 in Chico, Calif., the sky was dark and orange, and the street lights stayed on. Junior Justin Dodds, who lives in Chico, remembers being able to stare directly at the sun—a small red sphere, smothered by smoke. Ash was everywhere, coating car hoods and camp chairs.
As North Carolina enters Phase 3 of reopening at 5 p.m. Friday, Duke’s safety guidelines are staying the same.
Wondering when and where you can vote early in Durham?
Duke Student Government Senators heard from sophomore Drew Flanagan, chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, at their Wednesday meeting as he discussed a decline in funding to student groups and the current lack of annual budgets due to COVID-19.
After the retraction of a study on hydroxychloroquine with data provided by a Duke alum's company, a Duke study on the drug has felt ripple effects.
Duke’s surveillance testing program has not yet expanded to include contract workers, which one food service worker said shows a lack of care for those workers on the part of the University. According to Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh, surveillance testing will expand to include contract workers “as soon as the logistics can be worked out, which should be very soon."
Mark McClellan, founding director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, spoke on Wednesday to the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce as part of a panel of public health scholars.
The 2020 general election is a little over a month away, and voters across North Carolina will be voting for a new state superintendent of public instruction.
In the November general election, North Carolina voters will elect either Josh Dobson or Jessica Holmes as the N.C. commissioner of labor for the next four years, replacing Cherie Berry, who has been in the position since 2001.
A large crowd gathered on the Bryan Center Plaza Wednesday during an event with free cookies hosted by the Office of the Academic Deans in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.
Senior Sydney McKinney was sitting in an airport this summer, scrolling through eBooks, when she noticed that the top 10 trending books were all about anti-racism. This gave her an idea: starting Duke’s Anti-Racism Book Club.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, Trinity ’00, is running to be the next Virginia governor.
In June, Duke’s administration committed to taking action against racism in the Duke community. On Tuesday, the community learned more about the steps they’ve taken.
After serving on the President’s Advisory Committee on Institutional History, created last summer, Gino Nuzzolillo, Trinity ‘20, wrote a public letter to Committee members and Duke’s administration with concerns about the committee’s foundation and the execution of its mission. The letter criticized the Committee’s first year of operations, before its membership last month and President Vincent Price this month assigned the committee an updated charge.
More than 248,000 mail-in ballots have already been cast in North Carolina, with Durham County at more than 14,000.
Even amid the virtual school year’s increase in workload and challenges related to equity, technology and supervision, Durham Public Schools teachers are teaching and students are learning, teachers and administrators say.
