Joel Fleishman, founder of the Sanford School of Public Policy and namesake of the Fleishman House, is remembered as a visionary who played a transformational role in Duke’s development.
Today, the Duke Forest comprises just over 7,100 acres distributed to the west of the University’s campus across Durham, Orange and Alamance counties.
Student wellness representatives shared resources for dealing with health emergencies and promoted the University's amnesty policy as an incentive for taking action.
International students reflected on campus discourse during the election and expressed concerns about complications to the annual visa renewal process and fallout from proposed cuts to education funding following Trump's victory.
The collaboration resulted in $75,000 awards to four pilot projects, each led by faculty from both schools with an expected timeline of 18 months.
City officials highlighted recent efforts to invest in the community through youth engagement, jobs and housing programs.
Tenting registration will begin a week before FDOC, with black tenting scheduled to start Jan. 12, blue tenting Jan. 18 and white tenting Jan. 23.
Soong, North Carolina's first international student, studied at Trinity College before going on to found a successful publishing business and contribute to the revolutionary effort that ended imperial rule in China.
Inquisite works similarly to other language models and search engines, such as ChatGPT or Google, but specializes in conducting research on complex topics. Its main appeal is a promise to give users responses generated from trustworthy sources.
Following backlash to the 2023 training, which some students viewed as "triggering" and "apathetic," the University created a new Office for Gender Violence Education and Outreach and updated the presentation for 2024.
Students shared largely positive feedback, feeling well-informed about how to register and cast their vote. Many students opted to vote early at The Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center, which set a new Duke early voting record with 13,956 early voters, an increase of 1,262 voters since 2020.
The project, dubbed The 10th Street Journal, employs generative AI to produce stories from “news releases or other official sources” about community events, government actions and meetings.
The 2024 Innovator Award will cover four years of Ramanujam and her team’s work to reduce the burdens of cancer treatments on patients, particularly ones who do not live near a hospital.
The University received $1 million from HPS Investment Partners and the Kapnick Foundation to fund the Climate Dialogue and Innovation Initiative: Southeast Asia and the World in the Sanford School, and Associate Professor of Medicine Robert Tighe was named to lead the School of Medicine’s research strategy on the impact of the climate crisis on health.
Should Duke students — temporary residents of the city who often don’t pay property taxes — have a say in on local bond referenda?
Here is The Chronicle’s guide to five captivating courses being offered next semester.
The Duke community includes 2,304 military veterans and 880 students with military affiliations, according to Antwan Lofton, vice president of human resources.
As administrators look to establish new climate objectives for 2050 during the 2024-25 academic year, students reflected on current campus successes in the climate space as well as areas for improvement.
A longtime adviser to Trump, Miller began working for the then-candidate as a speechwriter in his 2016 presidential campaign. He later became a senior adviser in Trump’s first presidential administration and was involved in many of his hardline immigration policies, most notably the 2018 move to separate thousands of immigrant families as a deterrence strategy.
Trump’s decisive victory was not viewed with the same energy by all Duke students and Durham residents — with some sharing their excitement and others expressing worries for their rights under a MAGA presidency.
