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On Tuesday, North Carolina reported 3,978 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest number in the month of January, but virus levels remain high across the state.
Duke’s Global Education Office announced Wednesday afternoon that all outgoing undergraduate study away programs for spring 2021 have been suspended as a result of “ongoing health, safety, and logistics concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to a news release.
The Chronicle has you covered for the logistics of voting on Super Tuesday, from voting locations to transportation.
What does sriracha have in common with a magnolia tree? As of July, both are the namesake of grey mouse lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center.
While administrators publicly say that the foundation of the university is its students, sometimes Duke has to worry about its other foundation—in this case, the one buried under the admissions building.
Out of around 200 debate teams across the country, two Duke seniors—Salil Mitra and Jenny Jiao—emerged victorious at a debate championship this past April.
A new undergraduate education initiative will seek to achieve “consistent excellence” across the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.
The deepest question some people ask themselves is where to eat at the Brodhead Center, but for one Duke professor, her questions revolve around ethical quandaries in scientific research.
“The Board of Trustees already has 35 members, so we have to ask ourselves — why does it matter that they added an extra chair for us,” said Farrell. “We have to make it matter. We have to change the conversation, we have to vote when it’s unpopular — and that’s what I have done and will continue to do as Young Trustee.”
The Academic Council discussed electing a new chairman at its Thursday meeting as Chair Don Taylor, professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, nears the end of his tenure.
![“We did see a decrease in the Class of 2022 compared to 2021, from [international students forming] 10 percent of the class to 8 percent, but both of those are within the range of enrollment that we’ve seen among international students over the last decade,” Christopher Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, said. ](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/dtc/41480a8f-2c98-4448-baf0-8acae75d748e.sized-1000x1000.png?w=1000&ar=4%3A3&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format&dpr=1.5)
“We did see a decrease in the Class of 2022 compared to 2021, from [international students forming] 10 percent of the class to 8 percent, but both of those are within the range of enrollment that we’ve seen among international students over the last decade,” Christopher Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, said.
