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
Duke professor emeritus Sydney Nathans’s book, “A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland” chronicles the story of the Hargress family’s unlikely centuries-long ownership of a property in cotton-country Alabama.
Read More »Duke professor emeritus Sydney Nathans’s book, “A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland” chronicles the story of the Hargress family’s unlikely centuries-long ownership of a property in cotton-country Alabama.
Read More »In the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration — which limits entry from seven majority-Muslim countries — there is uncertainty about the role universities should play in public discourse about political issues.
Read More »Chris Derickson, the former University Registrar, has left his position of 10 years with UNC to take on the position of assistant vice provost and director of Student Information Systems and Services Office at Duke University.
Read More »Research conducted by Duke University reported high levels of selenium in fish in lakes adjacent to Duke Energy power plants.
Read More »Researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute discovered an antibody able to target multiple strains of HIV-1.
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Politicians aren’t the only ones debating President Donald Trump’s executive orders — a panel hosted by the UNC School of Law took on the topic Wednesday afternoon.
Read More »For one UNC graduate student from Iran, President Donald Trump’s executive orders last week shifted more than international policy.
Read More »Since the General Assembly lifted a 100-school cap on charter schools in 2011, the number of North Carolina charter schools has grown to 168 and student enrollment has more than doubled.
Read More »A secluded room in the corner of an open gallery greets visitors with only sound waves on a projected screen.
Read More »Duke Energy’s plan to put a plant at Duke University might be powering down—at least for a little while.
Read More »Katherine Fitzgerald, a UNC graduate and current graduate student at Arizona State University, made the news this week after tweeting that she would donate to the Flint Water Crisis in Michigan for every point that Miles Bridges scored in Duke’s game against the Michigan State Spartans Tuesday night.
Read More »Duke University graduate students are moving toward unionization after a ruling earlier this year said graduate students at private universities could be considered university employees.
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The winning team of today's Duke v. UNC football game will get to paint the Victory Bell, after all.
Read More »North Carolina WARN, a climate justice non-profit organization, expressed concern over Duke Energy’s proposal to build a natural gas-fired power plant at Duke University in a report released Monday.
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UNC’s club ice hockey team is ready to take the ice in hopes of capturing another Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League title. In the past two years, they have come in third and in first.
Read More »A former researcher from Duke University has filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming fellow researchers fabricated data to win millions of dollars in federal grants.
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A bipartisan group of retired North Carolina judges is advocating for redistricting reform by proposing a new congressional district map on Monday.
Read More »Graduate assistants at private universities now have the right to collectively organize thanks to a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board Tuesday classifying them as university employees.
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After two years as assistant director of UNC’s LGBTQ Center, Angel Collie has moved to become the assistant director for the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity at Duke University.
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While UNC may have bested Duke in sports this year, the Blue Devils have one advantage over the Tar Heels – they have lemurs.
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