Duke has avoided widely publicized criticisms about antisemitism faced on college campuses. The Chronicle spoke with Duke faculty members who teach international relations who spoke on why campus discourse has remained largely civil on campus.
Plans to acquire Blue Light were first initiated in the summer of 2023, when “Duke Student Affairs and Duke Real Estate were first made aware of the opportunity to work with Blue Light’s management,” according to Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president for student affairs.
The event was hosted by Jewish Life at Duke and featured Moshe Lavi and Yair Finkelstein, members of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum’s delegation to North Carolina.
Line monitors and players and coaching staff on the men’s basketball team spoke to tenters about promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in Krzyzewskiville at a Wednesday town hall.
Juwan Jacobs, DSG advisor and assistant director for student involvement and leadership, cited the rigid structure surrounding endorsements — such as the requirement for organizations to give each candidate equal speaking and questioning time — as a reason for eliminating the process.
The Tuesday conversation, which touched on many of Beinart’s personal experiences, was moderated by Professor of Cultural Anthropology Rebecca Stein and was packed with Durham and Duke community members.
Ten years ago, the Bass Connections program started sponsoring independent student efforts to learn about United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and developed an official course to support their interests.
Grant Hill, former men’s basketball star and Trinity ‘94, gave the keynote address at Sunday’s service of commemoration for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Workers at the Durham Starbucks on Renaissance Parkway voted Dec. 11 to unionize, becoming the third Starbucks to unionize in the state and the first in the Triangle.
Arts & Sciences Council got its first look at a draft proposal for the new Trinity College curriculum and heard a proposal for the Thompson Writing Program’s new minor in writing and rhetoric during a Thursday meeting.
In preparation for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 15, The Chronicle has compiled a list of ways you can commemorate the holiday at Duke and in Durham.
Duke’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship website pitches the program as an opportunity for students to form connections with companies across Silicon Valley. While the program’s location attracts aspiring entrepreneurs, what do students do once they get in?
The event was hosted by actor and comedian Ken Jeong, Trinity ‘90, Lisa Borders, former president of the Women’s National Basketball Association and Trinity ‘79, and former men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski.
Eight months after President Price announced that Steelman would become Duke's vice president and vice provost for climate and sustainability, she has effectively become the face of Duke’s Climate Commitment.
As Duke closes out a monumental year, The Chronicle looks back at the biggest stories of 2023 — a year marked by the beginning of a new Carolinas financial aid program, continued demands by campus activists and the end of the University’s COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
After beginning their college experience on Duke's campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some Duke Kunshan University students have applied to transfer to Duke, citing pandemic disruptions and academic differences as some of their reasons to return to Durham.
If you’re staying on-campus over winter break, here’s a look at some fun ways to spend your holidays and how certain Duke facilities will operate over the coming weeks.
According to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag, part of the increase in the number of applications is due to the University’s new financial aid program for students from the Carolinas.
In doing so, the bill would fund “Workforce Pell Grants” to assist students in shorter-term programs that are currently ineligible for traditional Pell grants. The bill is not yet law, but has cleared the first hurdle towards getting a vote on the House floor.
Patrick Rowland was charged for using a cell phone to distribute cocaine and marijuana from September 2022 to March 2023, after both he and UNC first-year Elizabeth Grace Burton overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl in a Kilgo common room on March 9.
