More than 1,000 requests from 861 students were submitted to HRL for the return of their essential items they left on campus, said Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life.
I minored in political science, and it’s a subject I’ve been heavily involved with, but all those political science classes and grand strategy talks hardly take into consideration the lives of ordinary people.
So while I could never pretend to understand exactly what it is like to be in your position—being afforded even less time to enjoy what was left of college before what was already sure to be a very bittersweet May afternoon—I’d be remiss if I didn’t remind you that your friends aren’t going anywhere that you can’t follow them, virtually or physically.
Sallie Permar is a Duke professor member of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. She talked to The Chronicle about some of the features of the new vaccine and how Duke is also contributing to vital COVID-19 research.
One day after undergraduate classes moved to a default satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading option, some graduate and professional courses are following suit.
Due to travel restrictions, four DukeEngage programs have already been canceled.
Why are graduate students treated as an afterthought when their contributions are key to Duke’s everyday function?
I knew my first year in college would be full of surprises, but I don’t remember the FAC chat on what to do in the case of a global pandemic. I must’ve slept through that one.
President Vincent Price announced that Duke has decided to postpone commencement for the Class of 2020, but he is committed to holding an in-person commencement celebration on campus at some point.
Hotel employees and full-time food service workers, not just Duke faculty and staff, will keep their current pay for the time being.
Spring semester undergraduate classes will now be automatically graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory scale, wrote Gary Bennett, vice provost for undergraduate education, in an email to The Chronicle Wednesday morning.
After weeks of planning, students had to scrap their international itineraries for something a little less exciting.
Nothing is cliched during a pandemic.
More importantly, we can learn from the love others have shown, the sacrifices others have made, the struggles we are all going through together.
While we, the class of 2020, will have infinite responses to answer where we were when senior year was canceled, there is one that is unanimous and sadly fitting: we were apart.
Junior Michael Castro said that for many Duke students, moving classes online poses challenges that may threaten their academic success this semester, so he created a petition on Change.org.
Over the course of the last week, day-to-day life around the world has come to a grinding halt in response to the rapid spread of COVID-19.
Most Duke lab research is being suspended amid growing spread of COVID-19, Vice President for Research Lawrence Carin wrote in an email Tuesday evening.
They were on an overseas Duke trip where four members of the group became infected.
It's official: there won't be any ACC athletic activities for the remainder of this spring.
