Officials at the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life say they are optimistic about the search for a new director, after a committee identified a pool of over 100 candidates from around the...
In a move sure to affect future development on Central Campus, the Durham City Council adopted an ordinance Monday night that established a new university-college District but prevented any large...
An expansion of the business school's master's of business administration class is padding a down year for applications to the school's higher-end programs.
Adapting to the varied tugs and pulls of research demands and patient care, departments within the Medical Center are quietly ceding territory to research-focused centers and undergoing a drastic...
As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, John Hope Franklin viewed Tulsa as the land of opportunity - his family planned to relocate there in the early 1920s, hoping to move into a nicer home and...
Capitalizing on the Athletics Department's recent consent to hosting a major concert in Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Duke University Union has secured a guarantee from the University for a...
The greek judicial board is no longer just a plan, but a functioning body that has heard a total of four cases so far in front of newly trained justices representing all the main greek governing...
Lauren Echstenkamper is a 19-year-old freshman who happens to love French music, traveling, watching the West Wing and Alias, and interesting wrist watches--she currently sports a pink PowerPuff...
The University may be getting even closer to jumping on the monorail.
Local students join hundreds of other community members from around Duke and Durham for Sunday's CROP Walk, which seeks to raise money to help fight hunger.
Provost Peter Lange said last week that an expected report on the next step for looking at faculty diversity will be released at April or May's Academic Council meeting.
Pajama-clad residents of Jarvis Dormitory waited in front of their building until after 2 a.m. Thursday morning as fire fighters responded to an alarm from the utility tunnel below the building.
Although the number of applicants to the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences remained the same in 2003 after jumping nearly 16 percent in 2002, administrators continue to hope...
The leaders of several black student organizations met Thursday night to discuss the implications of the recent controversy surrounding Duke Student Government President Joshua Jean-Baptiste, as...
U.S. News and World Report released its 2004 rankings of America's best graduate schools, and for the second year in a row Duke received mixed results.
Is grade inflation a crisis at Duke and at other selective colleges? Former Duke statistics professor Valen Johnson thinks so - and will reveal his evidence in a book to be released April 18.
Coming off a disappointing loss to No. 20 Vanderbilt, the No. 2 women's (9-2, 1-1 in the ACC) lacrosse team will look to rebound against No. 4 Virginia (9-2, 1-1) Sunday in Charlottesville, Va.
Military leaders are beginning to play a more partisan - and potentially more troubling - role in politics, said Richard Kohn, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
Although Edens Quadrangle will gain a new bench next year - for newly housed Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity - it will lose two others, as one selective house and one fraternity go "on hiatus" for the...
