He had to wait—and still is waiting—for his chance to hear his name called and for the fans in the stands to think, “this is the future of Duke basketball...A six-foot-two guard from Elizabeth, New...
For a brief moment, they all just get to enjoy it. The players stand in a cluster in the Rose Garden as President Barack Obama works his way around, careful to personally greet and shake hands with...
When sophomore Chris Brown visited Duke as a kid, he peered up at the old rooms of his mother and his father. It was only natural to think he would grow up to live there too someday. It took him...
Towerview sits down and talks to Anne Yoder, director of Duke University Lemur Center.
The university publication is a constantly changing entity. At its heart is a group of rapidly changing students putting words, images and designs together into a non-saleable commodity.
The Durham community of Rolling Hills–or what’s left of it–is well past its heyday. The center of two failed redevelopment efforts in the 1980s and 1990s, Rolling Hills is something of a Bermuda...
For the heads of a laboratory, Laurent Dubois and Deborah Jenson have an unusual set of credentials. Yes, you can call them “doctor,” but look closely: those PhD’s are in history and French.
After 40 years as a professor of chemistry, and the last three as dean of natural sciences, Crumbliss had earned a sabbatical. He planned to spend it in Genoa, a seaside city in northern Italy...
Every spring, Duke is eager to announce admissions decisions. And every year, administrators say the incoming freshman class is the best, brightest and most diverse class in the University’s history.
Foursquare is the next big thing at Duke—perhaps bound for greater ubiquity than Twitter—because it’s inherently perfect for the contained college campus, infested by students who might like to...
As collaboration between academia and industry in clinical research becomes more common and more lucrative, some warn that unaddressed financial conflicts of interest will erode the objectivity of...
President Richard Brodhead discusses Duke and the state of higher education.
The bus gods have come up with a solution to the drag of waiting on the C-1: poetry.
From verbal skirmishes on the quad to the 2003 Women’s Initiative, the University has been grappling with how to integrate women into campus life since the 1970s. The 2009-2010 school year has been...
Bell became the mayor of the Bull City in 2001, and he has called Durham home for more than 40 years. His fourth term is up in 2011, and during his tenure, he has focused on improving safety,...
On a sunny Monday in April, girls in sundresses and guys in sunglasses gathered in the shadow of the 210-foot icon to climb the spiral stairs, an opportunity reserved for first- and last-year...
Is Duke's improbable path already etched in our collective memory? Is it permanently ingrained there despite the transitory, blink-and-you-missed-it celebration? Or do we need to remind ourselves?
The MacBook Pros and iPods looked lonely on nearby tables; the poor iPod shuffles screamed of neglect. The long-awaited iPad had come out exactly one week earlier, and the customers were still...
