The Duke Student Voter ID Card is a “physical card, separate from the electronic or physical Duke Card,” which can be obtained by students for free.
“We really wanted to ground ourselves in something this year that was going to be all-inclusive and in the spirit of inclusivity,” Hamilton said as he declared inclusion as the overall goal for DSG this academic year.
Coastal North Carolina, including the Duke Marine Lab, is currently under a tropical storm watch and expected to face stronger rain and winds. The lab is “monitoring conditions, taking precautions and making preparations.”
UNC Police Chief Brian James added that "this was the only fatality, and no other injuries were reported."
Blackshear is set to begin his new position in January 2024, wrote Mary McMahon, vice provost and vice president for student affairs, in an email to Duke students. He will continue his responsibilities as Dean of Students throughout fall 2023.
Members are no longer allowed to move in early and must rehearse while classes are in session. Rehearsals can take up to eight hours per day.
The timeline for negotiations is unclear, and the DGSU says the process can “take weeks, months, or years.” It takes 465 days on average for unions to negotiate their first contracts.
The vote marks the union as the first officially recognized graduate student union at a private university in the South and one of the largest unions in North Carolina.
“We will not penalize graduate students in any way for engaging in unionizing efforts nor will we endorse any disciplinary measures directed at graduate students who have participated in such efforts or against those who have not,” the statement read.
Saturday marks move-in day for the Class of 2027 and the beginning of their Duke experience. Undergraduate students serving as Experiential Orientation program leaders blast music, welcoming first-years and their families as they pull up in cars to residence hall entrances.
The University of Chicago became the first of 16 top schools, including Duke, to settle claims that the schools illegally colluded to limit financial aid disbursement. So far, they are the only school to have said that they will settle the claims.
In 2020, Rachel Lance, assistant consulting professor in the department of anesthesiology, was allegedly assigned additional work without an increase in pay by Joseph Mathew, her immediate supervisor and chairman of her department. After initially raising “multiple internal complaints” to several University offices, Lance also began expressing concerns about a potential pay gap between herself and other male colleagues in her department. Lance says that after the complaints were filed, Mathew and other Duke employees created a “hostile work environment” through retaliatory comments and actions, including repeated attempts to pressure Lance into “dropping” her complaints.
North Carolina now joins 22 other states in enacting bans that prevent transgender students from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity.
If approved by the North Carolina Utilities Commission, electricity rates for residents will increase about 10.5% in 2024, 3.8% in 2025 and 3.6% in 2026, amounting to respective monthly increases of $12.54, $3.90 and $3.18 for the typical residential customer.
The section will not be accessible for any motorized vehicles outside arranged hours, and it will be off-limits for personal vehicles, rideshare services and campus visitors at all times.
According to a memo released by the City on Aug. 3, samples from East Durham Park, Walltown Park and an area in East End Park that is not accessible to the public contain lead levels above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's maximum threshold. These findings confirm a December report by former master's student Enikoe Bihari, Nicholas '22, in a paper supervised by Dan Richter, professor of soils and forest ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment. However, the City may have known about the results of the internal Duke report months in advance.
Priority repairs to the DukeCard office are expected to be completed next week, according to an email from Frank Tramble, vice president of communications, marketing and public affairs.
Interest will begin accumulating on federal student loans on Sept. 1, while payments are set to restart in October.
Roughly 150 attendees, some adorned with Duke Blue Devil horns, mingled in the garden of Hôtel des Invalides to celebrate the namesake of the Blue Devil mascot — “les Chasseurs Alpins,” or “the Alpine Hunters,” the elite mountain infantry unit of the French army.
The partnership will focus on four critical areas: modernized infrastructure, innovation, transformation and emerging technology. Duke Health plans to utilize Microsoft’s Azure Cloud and Cloud for Healthcare, while also taking advantage of other digital tools and “early access to new technologies” provided by Microsoft.
