Duke is now comfortable in its place in the top tier of institutions of higher education in the United States, but 100 years ago, Trinity College was just starting to make a name for itself--and...
When President Nan Keohane steps down in June 2004, the University will go through an inevitable period of adjustment.
Roughly a thousand new beds for graduate and professional students may make their way onto Central Campus as soon as two years from now, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta told the...
The Durham city council said goodbye to two council members Tuesday night and welcomed two fresh faces, newly-elected members Diane Catotti and Eugene Brown.
In the wake of a weekend robbery in the Bryan Center, the Duke University Police Department has vowed to increase its presence on campus and is urging students, faculty and employees to be more...
Even in old photographs, John Spencer Bassett looks a beat off from the rest of the world, leaning slightly on a garden urn in a shot from 1890 as others sit and stand up straight around him.
Snyderman honored for integrative medicine work.
Head men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski announced Monday afternoon that sophomore reserve center Michael Thompson will transfer to another school after the completion of the current semester..
One hundred years ago, a young Trinity College would not have permitted a black man to share the stage with two fellow academics.
Renowned historian and post-colonial theorist Achille Mbembe discussed the relationship between race, mass destruction and the law of warfare in a lecture Monday at the John Hope Franklin Center..
They pressed their ears up to the grates on the roof, squirming to hear anything from the meeting below. Finally at three a.m.
For the thirteenth time in school history, the women's basketball team won the Duke Classic, defeating No. 25 Auburn (4-2) 66-57 in Sunday's final.
The Pratt School of Engineering is stepping up its recruitment efforts--a measure administrators said will help maintain the quality of entering classes when the school starts to expand in Fall 2005.
One of the global leaders in the genetics of neurodegenerative diseases Margaret Pericak-Vance, director of the Center for Human Genetics at Duke University, has led her team in the discovery of...
Anticipating a third round of staff layoffs, Duke University Medical Center Library is bracing itself for yet another fiscal year of budget cuts, which translates directly into a smaller library...
Georgia-based Site Selection magazine has named North Carolina as the best overall business climate for the third year in a row.
In a report released Nov. 19, the National Science Board said the federal government should act to alleviate the coming shortage of U.S.
