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Engineering school mourns benefactor
By Kevin Lees | September 9, 2002Edmund Pratt, Engineering '47, former chair and CEO of Pfizer Inc.
Edmund Pratt, Engineering '47, former chair and CEO of Pfizer Inc.
North Carolina's partisan primary elections originally scheduled for May 7 will finally take place Tuesday, almost seven months after a controversial redistricting was overturned by the state...
For the second year in a row, a cultural group funding committee distributed $100,000 for cultural programming on campus.
The last time Edmund Pratt, Engineering '47, was at Duke University, he was overseeing the groundbreaking ceremony for the new engineering building in February.
Four Democrats filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, charging that Republican N.C. Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole and Wal-Mart Corporation violated campaign...
A Duke student was reportedly raped early Thursday at her residence on Wilkerson Avenue after a man armed with a gun broke into her home around 6:30 a.m.
Since 2000, the University's plea for undergraduates to move their cars out of the Blue Zone parking lot before a home football game has been met with disgruntled curses and sarcastic mockery.
With the primary only four days away, Democratic contenders for the U.S. Senate are campaigning hard all over North Carolina, making their faces known and voices heard.
Michael Sells, author of Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations, spoke at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thursday night, addressing the nationwide controversy sparked by the...
Amidst growing concerns about campus safety, Safe Haven, a center on campus that offers drop-in service for students on Friday and Saturday nights, may not be open this weekend as leaders continue...
Administrators and student leaders alike are taking steps this year to align more closely all elements of the greek community.
Tennis ball green has replaced basketball orange, but the work of party monitors--and their T-shirts--continues a year after the role was created.
Recent research at the Medical Center finally offers a physiological explanation of how intense emotion interferes with concentration.
The Fuqua School of Business announced Tuesday the creation of the Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, taking its first step in a 10-year initiative to promote entrepreneurial...
The next time you swipe your DukeCard at a residence hall, you may be surprised by a red light denying you entry.
With a new menu, a new mission and a new name, The Oak Room Grille opened Wednesday to little fanfare and mixed reviews.
Following four domestic homicides at Fort Bragg, N.C., this summer, the Pentagon has sent a medical team to investigate a possible link between the incidents and the anti-malaria drug Lariam.
With the U.S. Senate primaries looming ahead on Sept.
Duke leads the nation's top-tier universities in integrating black students and faculty, according to a new report in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
Efforts to bring the DTV Movie Channel back have run into a financial roadblock, but officials are optimistic that the service may return in the next year, even as Internet-based alternative CFlix...