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Nadia Bey is a Trinity senior and digital strategy director for The Chronicle’s 118th volume. She was previously managing editor for Volume 117.
About 100 people have transferred to positions outside of Student Affairs and about 100 people have left the University entirely since 2020, according to Mary Pat McMahon, vice president and vice provost for student affairs.
For the sixth consecutive year, we are administering our first-year survey, a questionnaire that aims to quantify the demographics, beliefs and interests of each first-year class.
The Chronicle sought to report a breakdown of which graduate and professional schools Duke undergraduates end up attending, but soon learned that information is hard to find.
There’s a lot to keep track of, and some stories drew more attention than others. Here are the five articles you spent the most time reading in September — in TikTok and written form.
Navigate360 Detect, formerly known as Social Sentinel, is advertised as a “threat detection” service that looks for certain keywords that may indicate harm to individuals or institutions. The company says it’s not designed to monitor protests, but the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other institutions used the service to do that, the Dallas Morning News reported.
PETA filed the complaint with the National Institutes of Health, claiming that a Duke researcher’s actions “may have led to the loss of two of the four pups,” and pigs went unfed for a weekend, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection report.
The Duke Consortium for Inflammatory Breast Cancer aims to improve diagnosis and treatment of the aggressive form of breast cancer through research and education.
The U.S. plans to allow more pharmacies to order these treatments and expand the test-to-treat program, in which someone can get tested for COVID-19 and obtain treatment in the same visit.
Law enforcement told Jones to put the gun down, but Jones “ignored their orders and was subsequently shot several times in the back,” according to the investigation report. Jones’ autopsy reveals that he was shot three times, resulting in damage to his heart and other internal organs.
Sure, we love Duke Athletics and we love when Duke moves up a place in some arbitrary ranking system and we love when our researchers make new discoveries, but holding the University accountable is a form of love, too.
