Students elected new Duke Student Government senators and vice presidents in an online election Thursday and Friday.
All students will have to be vaccinated for COVID-19 before they can enroll for the fall semester, President Vincent Price announced Friday.
From a community work day at the Duke Campus Farm to plushie-making with DukeArts, Monday’s wellness day is a chance to participate in self-care activities across campus and over Zoom.
Blue Devils United, a student LGBTQ+ support and advocacy organization on campus, is pushing administration to add more gender-neutral bathrooms to campus dorms.
Duke students who are protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are cautiously hopeful over a bill designed to open up citizenship to many undocumented United States residents.
At Thursday's Arts and Sciences Council meeting, Trinity College faculty heard three proposals—on satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading, credit for non-Duke courses taken online and course evaluations.
Duke will allow each member of the Class of 2021 to bring two guests to this year’s commencement ceremony, President Vincent Price wrote in a Thursday email to seniors.
Anna Storti will be an assistant professor in gender, sexuality and feminist studies, and Calvin Cheung-Miaw will be an assistant professor in the history department.
If the Senate approves SOFC’s proposal, arts, media and publications groups will receive the largest share of funding at 24.2%, with athletics and recreation groups close behind at 23.2%.
Stephen Buckley, Trinity ‘89 and lead story editor for the Global Press Journal, is set to join the faculty of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.
Marketplace and Trinity Café have been closed since March 27 after several Marketplace dining staff tested positive for COVID-19. After the closure, first-years living on East Campus have resorted to waiting in long food-truck lines and stocking up on several meals at a time from West Campus vendors.
Duke’s transition to virtual courses over the past year has been marked by a spike in academic misconduct cases across several departments. Some professors think that reducing student stress is essential for reversing the trend.
Some Duke students have become interested in fostering dogs during the pandemic as they spend most of their time at home.
Duke’s positive COVID-19 tests have decreased for three weeks in a row since a stay-in-place order was imposed on all undergraduates.
Frank Bruni, a New York Times columnist of 25 years, is leaving his current appointment at the paper to join the faculty of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, the center announced Monday.
Duke expects to admit 4.3% of Regular Decision applicants to the Class of 2025, which is lower than the Class of 2024’s 6% and the Class of 2023’s 5.7%.
Daniel Ennis is Duke’s new executive vice president, taking over from Tallman Trask. The Chronicle spoke to Ennis about his past experience at Johns Hopkins University, his decision to come to Duke and his goals for his new role.
In the meantime, students will have various other dining options.
U.S. News and World Report announced their 2022 rankings for the best graduate schools earlier this week, with more than a dozen Duke programs cracking the top 20.
Flo Milli and Dayglow will perform a virtual concert at the annual Last Day of Classes concert on April 23, according to a video release from the DUU LDOC Committee.
