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
Following recent complaints by Duke and local residents, the future of the light rail is looking uncertain. Here's a look at the history of the project.
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Following recent complaints by Duke and local residents, the future of the light rail is looking uncertain. Here's a look at the history of the project.
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The Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit Project has received several updates in the past two weeks, including a draft of a Federal Transit Administration risk report and refusal from Duke to join the project.
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Paris Kea stared out into the faces of the media members gathered for the postgame press conference after the UNC-Duke women’s basketball game. The redshirt senior guard took a long moment to think, before offering a few words to summarize her final regular season game in a Tar Heel uniform.
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After more than $130 million in Orange-Durham tax dollars was spent designing a new light rail transit system, Duke University informed GoTriangle that it will not permit construction on Erwin Road.
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Tomorrow night, UNC will face off against ACC rival Duke University at 9 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Here's where students will be watching.
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"Can you smell it? That sweet, sweet mixture. The sweat of thousands of people who just sprinted from every direction. The smoke of a freshly lit bonfire burning on Franklin Street. The putrid scent of misery and despair drifting down 15-501 from 10 miles away."
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During basketball season, you cheer for either UNC or Duke University – unless you’re a student at both universities.
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The UNC-Duke rivalry doesn't only apply to varsity sports, but continues into the club sports mentality, as well. We talked to some UNC club sports teams about the intense competition and the difference in the practices preceding a game against Duke.
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“While we are fierce competitors on the basketball court, when it comes to academics, we complement one another greatly."
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“Both faculty and students are focused on understanding things better and advancing the boundaries of what us humans know, and I think that’s really important. We are helping students think more in terms of making things, and showing them that the barriers of making things are not actually as high as they might think.”
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A professor from Duke will be visiting to give this year's commemorative lecture, which will be free to the public and focus on subverting traditional notions of interactions between sexes.
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We talked to some UNC students who said they weren't surprised by the controversial email due to Duke's past scandals and their own experiences with the university.
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Some see e-cigarettes as a possible way to help smokers quit, while other believe they have under-researched health effects and are too popular among teens. But a new study has discovered many chemical compounds that vapers ingest when using popular flavors.
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"The seeds are ripening on plants, the air is crisp and cool, things smell delicious and there’s kind of a frenzy of energy of living organisms and preparing for the winter.”
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As the opioid epidemic in North Carolina worsens, UNC's Injury Prevention Research Center hopes a recent $2 million research grant will help evaluate potential solutions.
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Only eight miles separates the UNC and Duke rivalry, and some community initiatives between the universities are just as close. Despite fierce competition, this UNC-Duke collaboration allows both shades of blue to give back.
Read More »"This is a way for people with dementia to really relax and enjoy themselves because there is no pressure to remember anything," Hower said. "They can live in the moment with these tours, but also their caregivers get some release.”
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The Office of Student Conduct at Duke has dropped investigations into the students who protested an alumni event April 14.
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The program will be rolled out over two years and will expand access to treatment and support services for all members of the Duke community.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rev. William Barber II discussed and answered audience questions concerning a variety of pressing political issues, such as inequality, military spending, racism and Russia.
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