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
Although the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not much closer to a solution after years of peace talks and false starts, UNC students are finding ways to become engaged in the debate.
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Although the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not much closer to a solution after years of peace talks and false starts, UNC students are finding ways to become engaged in the debate.
Read More »Universities nationwide are urging members of Congress to reach an agreement on federal deficit reduction without imposing further cuts on higher education.
Read More »Clinical trials might be a cancer patient’s last chance to get better. But some former patients of Duke University Health System claim trials administered to them were flawed, and maybe even harmful.
Read More »With the Kenan-Biddle Partnership gearing up for a second year, former grant recipients said the relationship between UNC and Duke University is stronger after the inaugural effort.
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The Ackland Art Museum is home to the sarcophagus in which William Hayes Ackland, the original benefactor of the museum, is entombed.
Read More »“Eating Animals,” the non-fiction work by Jonathan Safran Foer, is the first ever shared summer reading selection for freshmen at Duke University and UNC.
Read More »A year ago, Justin Robinette, a junior at Duke University at the time, was removed from his position as chairman of the Duke College Republicans for reasons that are still disputed. Robinette claimed he was impeached because of his sexual orientation — he is gay — but members of the board who impeached him cited other reasons, such as neglect of his responsibilities as chairman.
Read More »After a two-year pay freeze, Duke University professors will be receiving a 3 percent salary hike for the upcoming academic year. While many private universities have experienced some pay increases during the last few years, public universities are still enduring a dry spell which could lead to possible retention problems.
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The Jazz Loft Project, a new exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, recalls the American jazz scene in the 1950s and 60s in a series of photographs and recordings taken from a man’s New York City apartment.
Read More »Medical students at Duke University will soon be able to travel to India and practice in a different country. A partnership between Duke Medicine and Medanta — the Medicity, a for-profit collection of specialty institutes located near New Delhi, was recently established. The initiative is called the Medanta-Duke Research Institute.
Read More »“Even though Durham-based Merge Records celebrated 15 years of musical success seven years ago, Cam Carrithers is still reliving the moment. His upcoming film class at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University will give students the chance to help create a film collage of Merge moments.”
Read More »Duke University’s GoDuke.com will broadcast Saturday’s basketball game against the University of Virginia in Mandarin Chinese.
Read More »Government isn’t the only institution that is having a hard time in the age of WikiLeaks. Universities are feeling it too, albeit in different ways. Perhaps no entity understands this better right now than Duke University. This year, at least three extremely embarrassing episodes have gone viral on the Internet.
Read More »Despite the historically bad blood between them, students at UNC and Duke University are eager to cooperate with one another. By the extended Nov. 22 deadline, the Kenan-Biddle Partnership had received about 90 proposals for its newly announced grant, suggested to be about $5,000 per proposal, said Ron Strauss, executive associate provost and co-chairman of the partnership’s review committee.
Read More »UNC students seeking to collaborate with Duke University students through a new program have to submit their applications today. Applications to the Kenan-Biddle Partnership were originally due on Nov. 15, but the deadline was extended to today in response to several requests for extensions.
Read More »After six months of wrangling with Duke University administration over his harassment claims, senior Justin Robinette has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against the school. The complaint contends that administrators discriminated against him because he is gay and failed to take appropriate action when he claimed he was being harassed by students and fellow members of the Duke College Republicans.
Read More »Despite expected protests following Duke University’s decision to cancel its popular tailgate celebration, the campus remained calm for this past weekend’s football game as most students simply moved the party off campus. University administrators said the partying was kept to a minimum and was contained to Greek houses, residence halls and bars located near the campus.
Read More »The raucous tailgate party before football games at Duke University has been canceled after an underage teenager was found unconscious in a portable toilet following Saturday’s celebrations. The tailgate tradition started in 2003 and has since evolved into a university-wide event complete with costumes, alcohol, loud music and, more recently, regulations from the Duke administration.
Read More »Students interested in getting a $5,000 grant for next year might benefit from a lack of competition. As of Monday, no applications had been submitted for the Kenan-Biddle Partnership, a three-year, $150,000 collaboration between UNC and Duke University. The grants — suggested to be about $5,000 — are intended to fund student-led projects in the arts, sciences and humanities on either campus.
Read More »Students at Duke University say they are tired of the negative publicity their school has received after a PowerPoint created by an alumna describing her sexual escapades garnered national attention. Karen Owen, a 2010 graduate of Duke, created a 42-slide PowerPoint presentation about her sexual exploits with 13 Duke lovers — many of them college athletes.
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