Three years ago, a group of former Young Trustee Nominating Committee members publicly announced that the Young Trustee selection process was broken. They claimed that undergraduate YT candidates...
Five weeks ago today, the Duke Endowment announced a gift of $40 million toward the creation of 30 new undergraduate-oriented professorships during the next five years.
"A Jubilee for Reynolds Price" continued Friday and Saturday with distinguished panels, a keynote speech by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison and a dramatic reading of "Private Contentment," a...
Reynolds Price received his first job offer from Duke in his final year as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford. The contract-to teach freshman English-read, "You must understand: the...
It's a drizzly Sunday afternoon, and 25 prosperous young Londoners are chatting in a wood-panelled gastropub in West Brompton.
Colin Curvey graduated from Duke in 1993, and since 1999 has worked in London for the private equity firm Duke Street Capital, becoming a partner in the firm last year. Private equity in the United...
WASHINGTON - Four months ago, Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics held an afternoon conference addressing "Knowledge In The Service of Society." I covered the event for my work-study job, and it was...
What is there to say about Monday's lacrosse game? It's Tuesday evening as I write this, and the loss is still too painful to delve into. Let's talk about the Cornell game instead. If I live to be...
We're lucky to have Bill Bell as mayor. A former IBM engineer, Bell is smart, calm and disdainful of the loony identity politics that often sidetrack Durham's government. (Impressively, he has also...
Many employees at publicly traded tech firms burn the midnight oil in exchange for lucrative stock options, but the 4,000 workers at privately owned SAS's headquarters in Cary enjoy a 35-hour work...
