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Students returning to Durham for the spring semester are asked to quarantine for 10 days before traveling. Additionally, traveling students are “strongly encouraged” to receive a COVID-19 test within five days before arriving in Durham.
In a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, Duke researchers found that the University’s COVID-19 pool testing system successfully slowed the spread of COVID-19 on campus.
President Donald Trump has won the state of North Carolina and its 15 electoral votes, news organizations including CNN and ABC projected on Friday.
Election excitement in North Carolina isn’t over yet.
While many are already turning in their votes, some Blue Devils have their names on the ballot.
The surrounding areas have seen much higher test positivity rates than Duke.
Duke has made plans to cut 75 staff positions in the Duke University Talent Identification Program starting Jan. 6.
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.
Some students criticized the University for what they saw as a lack of transparency in communicating its implementation of Title IX changes to the public, including offering only two days for public comment after the new rules were widely announced.
COVID-19 has highlighted systemic issues, experts agreed at a Thursday discussion—ones that can’t be resolved with a vaccine.
Clockwise from top left: Thomas Williams, senior lecturing fellow at the School of Law, moderated a Thursday panel on racism in health care with Daniela Lamas, a pulmonary and critical care physician; Khiara Bridges, a law professor at UC Berkeley; and Sylvia Perry, an assistant professor of social psychology at Northwestern.
