Board of Trustees briefed on cost-cutting measures
By Emmeline Zhao | October 7, 2009The Board of Trustees met this weekend to hear updates on the University’s financial situation and learn about efforts to improve campus.
The Board of Trustees met this weekend to hear updates on the University’s financial situation and learn about efforts to improve campus.
David Rubenstein, Trinity ’70 and a member of the Board of Trustees, pledged last week to donate $3 million to the Sanford School of Public Policy.
One year after the global financial crisis wrecked Wall Street, alumni and students crowded Fleishman Commons to hear an insider’s account of the collapse.
Ending six straight years of rapid growth, the University’s investments dropped sharply in the past fiscal year.
Gail Rosseau, chief of surgery at the Neurologic and Orthopedic Hospital of Chicago, spoke as part of the Terry Sanford Distinguished Lectures series.
Duke officially launched its new Web site Thursday, highlighting numerous aspects of the University. The new duke.edu cost the University $100,000 in design and development.
The Board of Trustees will meet on campus this weekend for the first time since May and address the continuing challenges presented by the University’s financial situation.
President Barack Obama doesn’t see foreign policy as important, at least according to John Bolton. Bolton, former United States ambassador to the United Nations, spoke on Obama’s foreign policy at...
DukeEngage, which debuted in 2007, was the result of almost $30 million in donations from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment.
Campus Council members supported a smoke-free residential campus in a 9-8 vote at their meeting Thursday night, following intense debate.
Joel Fleishman’s booming North Carolina voice filled the Chapel with a celebratory Jewish prayer Thursday, as the former director of what is now the Sanford School of Public Policy looked back on...
At DSG’s meeting Wednesday, Price Davidson presented the organization’s diversity survey, providing the statistical breakdown of DSG by ethnicity, greek affiliation, state or country of origin and...
Former University employee Frank Lombard is seeking to negotiate a plea agreement on child sex abuse charges.
It’s almost noon, but the line for bagels, scrambled eggs, fresh-squeezed orange juice and other breakfast staples at Alpine Bagels is 20 students deep.
Dr. Bill Purdy, executive director of Student Health, gave an update on Student Health policies at the Graduate and Professional Student Council’s meeting Tuesday night.
Saber Benson, a 26-year-old employee of The Loop, has died from injuries he sustained after he collided with the iron gates on Union Drive Saturday night.
Yesterday, the Marketplace and Great Hall featured specially crafted local lunch options as part of the “Eat Local Challenge."