As the election approaches, students have multiple options for early voting—including here on campus.
Jill Biden swung by a swing state in a Thursday virtual roundtable event for North Carolina working parents.
With a presidential election just around the corner, Duke’s student political groups are working to mobilize the youth vote amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students heard about health-care policy, voting and more at a Wednesday event.
With an unprecedented and consequential election just under 50 days away, voting has become a particularly important talking point of discussions on campus.
In its first meeting with newly elected senators, the Duke Student Government Senate participated in diversity, equity and inclusion training with James Mason, an equal opportunity compliance investigator at the Office for Institutional Equity.
Say goodbye to jam-packed bus rides between East and West Campus.
Some students had long had the fall of 2020 earmarked for a leave of absence from Duke for election-related work. For others, the decision came in response to COVID-19, after a spring and summer filled with Zoom meetings and a lack of clarity from Duke about what the fall semester would look like on campus.
To educate students on racial violence and brainstorm ways to abolish inequality at Duke, professors and departments chose to participate in the recent #ScholarStrike movement.
In addition to a summer dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, a socially distanced semester and online classes have created concerns of prolonged periods of isolation for incoming students. With the semester back in full swing, students have a variety of mental health resources to help them navigate the challenges this year brings.
Studying in your dorm room can be distracting, but have no fear: Duke’s libraries are here and ready to help students by providing study spaces and academic resources.
There were six new positive coronavirus tests at Duke between Sept. 5 and Sept. 11, out of 7,582 total tests, according to data released Monday on the University’s COVID-19 testing tracker.
Two Duke students are in the game to reveal student-athletes’ stories beyond their sports.
Why has the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected Black and brown people in the United States?
Duke researchers have created tools to help you calculate classroom risk.
Duke has fallen to 12th place in the most recent U.S. News and World Report National Universities rankings, after tying with Johns Hopkins for 10th place last year and sitting at No. 8 the year before.
The elections for the Class of 2024’s DSG senators lasted from noon Thursday to noon Friday, with more than 425 first-years voting in the election for each of the Senate’s five committees. More first-years will enter the Senate through the at-large process, decided by interviews with a selection committee rather than elections.
As precautionary measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 continue, one question is on all of our minds: When is a safe, effective vaccine going to be developed?
Duke’s contract tracing team is calling on students to join them as volunteer contact tracers.
Some students criticized the University for what they saw as a lack of transparency in communicating its implementation of Title IX changes to the public, including offering only two days for public comment after the new rules were widely announced.
