With break just around the corner, here’s a look at how Duke facilities will be operating from Saturday through next Wednesday.
This semester, 279 students are participating in the program, which offers multidisciplinary courses spanning areas from religion to medicine and co-curricular activities that foster faculty-student interaction.
"I am shocked and saddened at the terror attacks by Hamas in Israel and the continuing conflict that has taken so many innocent lives," Price wrote. "I feel deeply for all in our community and beyond who are in pain.”
DuWell and other student groups are working to spread awareness and provide emergency care for opioid and other drug overdose.
The University has already accounted for two dozen students, faculty, staff and affiliates in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and some have already left the region.
Jewish and Israeli professors, students and religious figures shared speeches to over 150 attendees, honoring the lives lost after Hamas militants launched a deadly surprise attack on Israel Saturday.
In February 2022, Duke replaced the C-1 weekend route with the C-Swift, which students say causes longer bus rides between campuses and overcrowding on the buses.
The program emphasizes restorative justice, a psychological and legal approach to crime intervention, and an approach Henry Rice, a Duke professor of surgery and director of the program, feels needs to be further addressed within the existing healthcare system.
Duke’s Class of 2027 is the second class to experience a fully implemented QuadEx system, with no memory of the University’s previous housing system to compare it to.
The Sanford School of Public Policy hosted the lecture, “Why Can't I Focus? On Emails, Smartphones, and the Age of Distraction,” as part of its Crown Lecture in Ethics Series. Newport presented data on “techno distraction” and proposed ways to address the unintended side effects of smartphone and email usage.
Council members, Duke Student Government representatives and other interested faculty present at the meeting discussed whether students should experience some degree of autonomy over their academic path, debating the value in making students study things that they may not want to study.
The potential minor would be housed in the cultural anthropology department, where there are currently only a few Native studies classes offered.
Duke Student Government senators met Wednesday to listen to changes to SOFC funding, reiterate expectations on how senators approach project work and give project updates.
The Student Wellness Center, located on West Campus next to Penn Pavilion, provides various support services for students’ wellness and mental health.
With this grant, Duke medical student Dominic Tanzillo hopes to reach audiences who traditionally might not have been represented in the field of space medicine.
Some students end up missing parts of lectures, while others position themselves by the door of their classroom to make it across campuses in time for class.
Nides was asked questions about the Israel-Palestine conflict and Israel’s expansion into the West Bank at the Tuesday event.
The Chronicle is accepting tributes to Angela Risi, a second-year master of fine arts student in the dance program who died on Monday.
The injunction affects only two specific provisions of the bill — one that instructs doctors to document pregnancies before prescribing pregnancy-ending medication and the other that requires abortions performed after 12 weeks of pregnancy to take place in hospitals.
“We’re celebrating the life and work of Bob Lefkowitz,” Price told The Chronicle. “He has endowed this University with so much, not just a Nobel Prize, but with a path-breaking laboratory [and] generations of students.”
