Location: Durham, N.C.
Type: 4-year, Private
Year founded: 1839
Total enrollment (fall 2014): 14,850
Undergraduate enrollment: 6,646
Undergraduate applicants (class of 2018): 31,523
Acceptance rate: 12.4 percent
Graduation rate (after four years, fall 2013): 87 percent
Undergraduate tuition and fees (2014-2015): $47,243
Sports nickname: Blue Devils
Website: www.duke.edu
The final lecture of the Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship will take place next week at Duke University with speaker Pawan Dhingra on moving beyond fighting anti-Asian racism.
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Downtown Chapel Hill had over 9 million visitors in 2022 — an increase of over 1.6 million from the last year — according to the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership.
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“It’s not about individual people, it's about systems,” CHCCS graduate and parent Vickie Feaster Fornville said. “And if you’re not willing to try to look at those systems and acknowledge the fault that is there and the wrong and harm that has been done, then we won’t get where we need to go — there won’t be any success.”
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Chapel Hill Mayor Pan Hemminger said the Town has been transparent about what it has learned about coal ash at 828 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. But, one group believes that the organization hired to test the site failed to provide the Town with a complete assessment of health risks caused by coal ash.
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Last season, UNC lost its first ever game at Dorrance Field to Duke. According to senior defender Tori Hansen, the painful memories of the Blue Devils storming their home turf stuck on the Tar Heels’ mind coming into Thursday night. “Most of this team remembers that feeling, and I think that was such a fire under us for this game,” Hansen said. “We were like, ‘We’re going to do this exact same thing to them here at their field.'"
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The Tar Heels’ game-winning goal came in the 35th minute when senior forward Emily Moxley delivered a pass to the far right side of the goalkeeper box and connected with Hansen for a header.
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The UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies facilities collaboration between the two campuses across disciplines. “I think it's important for the citizens and residents in North Carolina to learn about Latin America and its history, culture, politics and economics because increasingly, Latin America is coming here,” Louis Pérez Jr., co-director of the consortium, said.
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UNC's performance against Michigan and Iowa in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge has proven essential to their success. If the Tar Heels want to make a run for a national championship this season, they must find a way to win in Winston-Salem this weekend.
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The No. 18 North Carolina men's lacrosse team (8-6, 1-5 ACC) dropped its final game of the 2022 regular season to No. 9 Duke (11-5, 3-2 ACC) after eight unanswered goals in the third quarter.
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"The system of selecting students for their future donor potential only further contributes to the systemic challenges of gaining admission to top universities for high-achieving, low-earning students."
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In August, a federal judge approved a $19 million settlement between thousands of faculty members at UNC and Duke to resolve a class-action lawsuit asserting that the two universities colluded not to steal faculty from each other. Duke and UNC allegedly held a “no-poach understanding” that reached back decades. Essentially, each university promised not to steal professors and faculty members from the other. This agreement violates state and federal antitrust laws. Neither Duke nor UNC-Chapel Hill admitted any wrongdoing in the settlements of either lawsuit.
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"Until UNC steps up its COVID-19 testing requirements or requires a vaccine, it can no longer consider other prestigious universities peer institutions."
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The Friends of Geer Cemetery aims to restore and preserve a historic Black cemetery tucked away in a Durham residential neighborhood. The organization is pioneering a new approach to cemetery care — one in which the community is responsible for care of the grounds and the people buried there.
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People in North Carolina have shown support for Palestinians during the Israeli attacks, from protests in Raleigh to a statement signed by faculty from 23 colleges and universities across the state. “This has been inspiring to the Palestinians on the ground,” said Nadia Yaqub, a professor in the UNC Department of Asian and Middle Eastern studies. “To know in this very difficult time there are hundreds of people, just in one state, who care enough to sign a statement like this."
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Each dance group has a bhangra segment included in their performance, which allows both the dancers and the audience to witness how the Punjabi culture intertwines with the other cultures that are represented. This year's event will also serve to raise funds in support of Punjabi farmers' protests in India.
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