As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, John Hope Franklin viewed Tulsa as the land of opportunity - his family planned to relocate there in the early 1920s, hoping to move into a nicer home and...
Adapting to the varied tugs and pulls of research demands and patient care, departments within the Medical Center are quietly ceding territory to research-focused centers and undergoing a drastic...
In a move sure to affect future development on Central Campus, the Durham City Council adopted an ordinance Monday night that established a new university-college District but prevented any large...
An expansion of the business school's master's of business administration class is padding a down year for applications to the school's higher-end programs.
Capitalizing on the Athletics Department's recent consent to hosting a major concert in Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Duke University Union has secured a guarantee from the University for a...
Lauren Echstenkamper is a 19-year-old freshman who happens to love French music, traveling, watching the West Wing and Alias, and interesting wrist watches--she currently sports a pink PowerPuff...
Local students join hundreds of other community members from around Duke and Durham for Sunday's CROP Walk, which seeks to raise money to help fight hunger.
The University may be getting even closer to jumping on the monorail.
Provost Peter Lange said last week that an expected report on the next step for looking at faculty diversity will be released at April or May's Academic Council meeting.
The greek judicial board is no longer just a plan, but a functioning body that has heard a total of four cases so far in front of newly trained justices representing all the main greek governing...
U.S. News and World Report released its 2004 rankings of America's best graduate schools, and for the second year in a row Duke received mixed results.
The leaders of several black student organizations met Thursday night to discuss the implications of the recent controversy surrounding Duke Student Government President Joshua Jean-Baptiste, as...
Although the number of applicants to the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences remained the same in 2003 after jumping nearly 16 percent in 2002, administrators continue to hope...
Pajama-clad residents of Jarvis Dormitory waited in front of their building until after 2 a.m. Thursday morning as fire fighters responded to an alarm from the utility tunnel below the building.
Coming off a disappointing loss to No. 20 Vanderbilt, the No. 2 women's (9-2, 1-1 in the ACC) lacrosse team will look to rebound against No. 4 Virginia (9-2, 1-1) Sunday in Charlottesville, Va.
Is grade inflation a crisis at Duke and at other selective colleges? Former Duke statistics professor Valen Johnson thinks so - and will reveal his evidence in a book to be released April 18.
The required first-year course in academic writing tends to have an infamous reputation among undergraduates.
For the fourth straight year, four Duke students - juniors Lauren Childs, Ethan Eade and Linda Zhang and sophomore Margaret Wat - won the Barry M.
A new "conduct covenant" recently passed by Divinity School faculty came under intense criticism during a meeting of the Student Life Ministry Tuesday, as Divinity students questioned...
