After looking at his company's earnings last quarter, Blair Sheppard was able to deliver the University a nice holiday present - a $1 million check from Duke Corporate Education.
To ensure that the economic downturn does not adversely affect the stability of growth in the University's endowment spending, administrators have decided to lower the endowment's payout rate from...
If you could watch all your classes on a personal computer in the comfort of your room, would you ever sit in a lecture hall again?.
As students in General Chemistry prepared for today's midterm, freshman dormitory halls echoed with standard complaints about the difficulty of kinetic reactions and stoichiometry.
Cameron Levy, come on down! You're the next contestant on The Price is Right!.
In a moving dinner and awards ceremony, selected Duke professors and students were recognized for their contributions to a more tolerant community.
Students take note: Investment banking, consulting and law and medical school are not your only career options. .
The win inside fired the Blue Devils' confidence, and the students outside fired up the benches.
Duke administrators were mostly disappointed with the $2.2 trillion budget President George W. Bush proposed earlier this week and what it may hold in store for research funding and higher education.
Stressing that significant international changes have impacted the United States' security needs, the former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory discussed Wednesday the increasing role...
On Vice President for Development Robert Shepard's desk sits a small blue plastic bucket filled with Werther's Original candies.
In a historic sitting Wednesday, the North Carolina State House selected two people - one Democrat and one Republican - to share the position of Speaker of the House.
Rhesus macaque monkeys show not only the ability to learn ordered images but also an abstract, flexible knowledge of learned material, a new study reports--suggesting that these supposedly...
Assistant Dean of Students Deb LoBiondo will become Duke's interim director of student activities, Zoila Airall, assistant vice president for student affairs, announced Tuesday.
After waiting nervously to find out which potential Interfraternity Council group members accepted the bids they handed out Sunday night, fraternity leaders discovered Monday night that changes to...
Former Durham mayor Nick Tennyson has a simple response about how he spends his time these days.
President Nan Keohane issued a strongly worded rebuttal Tuesday afternoon to the DukeDivest group's call for University divestment from companies with military ties to Israel.
As if the crazy towel guy were not enough inspiration at Duke men's basketball games, the student body has acquired a first-class fanatic of its own.
