Economics graduate program aims for change
By Kevin Lees | April 18, 2003At the heart of incoming chair Thomas Nechyba's plans for the Department of Economics is a massive overhaul to the graduate program.
At the heart of incoming chair Thomas Nechyba's plans for the Department of Economics is a massive overhaul to the graduate program.
Vice President for Institutional Equity Sally Dickson will become the latest high-level administrator to depart the University when she returns to Stanford University this summer as vice provost...
The key is in the ignition and the engines are running.
A former candidate for the Class of 2005 presidency in today's class elections filed an appeal Wednesday, claiming that she was unfairly dismissed from the race.
Changes in Krzyzewskiville policy and the election of a new secretary topped the agenda at Tuesday night's Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting.
The Fuqua School of Business cut 10 positions - five through attrition - Wednesday as the first part of an effort to reduce its budget.
After a year in which students tenting for basketball games faced unusually harsh conditions, participants in a town hall meeting Tuesday night reviewed possible changes to improve the...
Patients now have yet another piece of paperwork to fill out at the doctor's office, but this one should actually make them happy.
It's spring in North Carolina, and that means droves of people, typically prospective students, are descending upon the campus.
Long held as the centerpiece of the School of Medicine's doctor of medicine program, the third year is also going under the knife as the rest of the curriculum gets a face-lift.
Conservative firebrand Alan Keyes criticized the Bush administration's motives for entering the war in Iraq in a speech to about 200 undergraduates at Griffith Film Theater Tuesday.
It seems Duke-Durham relations just may be alive and well after all.
In the swan song of another rocky and controversial year for Duke Student Government, the Legislature Wednesday night overrode a presidential veto, postponed a resolution until December, heard a...
Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson, an assistant professor of environmental policy and a rising star at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, died Tuesday evening after a five-month...
Student Affairs administrators placed Sigma Nu fraternity on "interim suspension" Monday after Chapel Hill police officers found six of the group's pledges wandering intoxicated near Old Erwin Road.
Larry Moneta's calendar still may be full and his days busy as ever, but as the vice president for student affairs settles into his position and completes his own infrastructure, his role is...
A simple slogan - gay? fine by me - moved about campus Monday as people donned free T-shirts in support of gay rights.
Over the next month or two, hundreds of college students will address their fellow seniors at graduations nationwide, reenacting what are, in some cases, centuries-old traditions.
More than a hundred prospective freshmen wandered around campus Monday, looking a little lost and trying to find the essence of Duke at the second of five Blue Devil Days - a series of programs...