In the months before the closure, departmental leadership limited communication with herbarium faculty about the facility’s future. Emily Bernhardt, chair of the biology department, did not respond to The Chronicle’s request for comment about why communication was limited.
DSG described plans to host Democracy Day on March 1 from noon to 4 p.m. on Bryan Center Plaza. The event will feature acapella performances, food trucks and voter ID cards for pick-up.
Community stakeholders met in the Rubenstein Library’s Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room for the conversation, which is the fifth installment in the Investing for Mission-Driven Institutions seminar series.
Durham County primary elections for board of commissioners, board of education and register of deeds will be held on March 5, ahead of the general elections on Nov. 5.
Ten pro-Israel and 30 pro-Palestinian speakers addressed the council prior to the vote. Chief among their concerns was the language of the proposed resolution: pro-Israel speakers protested the fact it did not name Hamas, while pro-Palestinian speakers thought the resolution should have called for a permanent cease-fire and labeled Israel’s actions as genocide.
Van Miegroet, 71, died in a car accident while driving on North Carolina Highway 751 near Duke University Drive on Feb. 9. Around 6:30 p.m., he veered off the road and crashed into a “very small tree,” according to police records obtained by The Chronicle.
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Hasan, who was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, initially hoped to volunteer in Gaza with his wife Lauren Hasan, a former trauma surgeon, after the conflict had settled down. The couple didn’t think they would be able to go at the height of the war.
The change went into place this year, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag wrote in an email to The Chronicle. He explained that essays are no longer receiving a score because of a rise in the use of generative artificial intelligence and college admissions consultants.
Munger previously ran for governor of North Carolina in 2008 as the Libertarian Party nominee, becoming the first third party candidate to appear in a televised debate and earning nearly three percent of the vote.
The trip was meant to offer students the chance to engage with different perspectives, according to Mark Dalhouse, academic dean in the Trinity School of Arts & Sciences and the trip’s organizer.
Several leading organizations in botany and natural history collections signed a description accompanying the petition.
The Council also listened to a conversation regarding Duke Athletics between Andrew Janiak, chair of the Athletic Council, and Linda Franzoni, Duke’s faculty athletic representative for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The DAE believes that a meet and confer process will aid the district in “retaining Durham Public School staff and attracting highly qualified workers to join Durham Public Schools.”
The symposium, which took place in Penn Pavilion, is the first in a new Climate Collaboration Symposia series hosted by the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability and Duke Risk Science for Climate Resilience (RESILE).
The Duke Herbarium is the second-largest private university herbarium in the U.S. and is home to more than 825,000 plant specimens, including some specimens almost 200 years old. Universities across the world utilize the herbarium, which is a foundation for research in molecular, biochemical and cytogenetic studies.
Duke Student Government senators met Wednesday to provide updates on committee projects and approve funding for various student groups.
Two SLGs that have been approved as LLCs, The Cube and Langdorm, are currently undergoing this transition under the QuadEx residential model.
The victim, who was then a nursing student at Duke, was assaulted by then-Durham High School student David Felton behind an East Campus dormitory in June 1972. Felton died in January 2024.
Bruce Jentleson, William Preston Few distinguished professor of public policy and head of the provost’s initiative, moderated the conversation with Kurtzer on the prospect and logistics of facilitating peace in the Middle East.
