Duke University

Duke University is the sixth best value among U.S. private universities for 2009-10 – at least according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.

By Andrew Bone Nick Sink, Scout.com two-star tight end from Lewisville-Forsyth County Day School, N.C., had a life-long dream to attend Duke University. It wasn't until last week the Blue Devils wanted him as a part of their football program. Sink talked about the decision to commit to the in-state school.

The newly established First Book-Duke University board will distribute free books to children in literacy programs in the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership.

The newly established First Book-Duke University board will distribute free books to children in literacy programs in the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership.

By KC Johnson(noreply@blogger.com) In 2006, even as the police had barely begun their investigation, Duke University President Richard Brodhead lent the prestige of his office to faculty members' prosecution and conviction in the court of public opinion of three members of the Duke lacrosse team falsely accused of gang...

By rfmerritt Taking into account the effects of this phenomenon should greatly enhance the future efficiency of synthetic circuits, said biomedical engineer Lingchong You of Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy.

By rfmerritt Biomedical engineers in Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering have already designed a prototype of the device that can “read” the genomic signatures of infection. Collaborators in the project include researchers at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Virginia, and the Natio...

At their meeting Tuesday night, Duke University Union members announced the launch of the Bull City Football Fest Sept. 24, as part of an effort to collaborate with North Carolina Central University as well as involve the Durham community to celebrate Homecoming this year.

A week after adding Nosh to Merchants on Points, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee decided to bring another eatery into the program at its Monday night meeting. Students will soon be able to use their food points at Mad Hatter Bakeshop and Cafe, located within walking...

By rfmerritt The research was supported by the National Science Foundation. Other Duke team members were Jingbo Li, Feng Han, Gaopeng Lu and Nicolas Jaugey. Walter Lyons and Thomas Nelson from FMA Research, Fort Collins, Colo., also participated.

By rfmerritt Duke University will partner with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, and the University of Liège in Belgium to offer a new international masters program in turbomachinery aeromechanics dubbed THRUST. Courses will begin i...

By KC Johnson(noreply@blogger.com) The summary was topped off with the preposterous claim that between 20 and 25 percent of Duke female students are victims of “sexual assault”—which means that the Allison subcommittee maintained that Duke had a rate of sexual assault around 2.5 times higher than the rate of sexual assaul...

DURHAM -- Twenty-four years ago, as a nurse in the oncology department at Duke University Hospital, Kevin Sowers wanted to transform lives.

News & Observer, NC Or when he offers up his two cents to the many Duke University students who pass through the doors, young folks he calls "my babies." Dantzler is a custodian at Duke Chapel. But more than that, he's the heart and soul of the place. ...

By noreply@blogger.com (KC Johnson) Anyone whose sole exposure to higher education law came from Love would be stunned to discover passages such as those below: From a 1972 case, Zumbrun v. University of Southern California: From a 1992 case, Ross v. Creighton University: From a 1998 case, Thornton v. Harvard University:

DURHAM -- Duke University officials hope to offer a version of their suspended Duke in Mexico program on their own campus if enough students show interest.

DURHAM -- Five Duke University employees have been named winners of the Presidential Award for 2008 for outstanding service. The employees who received the award, the most prestigious honor given to Duke staff, were honored by Duke President Richard Brodhead.

DURHAM -- Many of the graduate and professional programs at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill ranked among the nation's best, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best graduate and professional schools in the country.

By rss@youtube.com (WorkingAtDuke) Duke employees can learn how to build a better budget with these tips from the Duke Federal Credit Union. For more information, visit: http://www.dukefcu.org/ Keywords: Duke University building budget finances financial crisis money credit union employees Working@Duke

News & Observer, NC - News & Observer File Photo - Prospective students and their parents visiting Duke University take a campus tour. Duke says it has 23750 applications for ...

By JWM(noreply@blogger.com) It was back on Oct. 23 that Duke President Richard H. Brodhead released his most recent letter on "Duke and the economy." On Dec. 8 Brodhead and BOT chair Robert Steel granted an interview to The Chronicle. Judging by what The Chronicle published, their goal was to simply reassure the Duke commu...

By noreply@blogger.com (KC Johnson) A key issue in the case seems to be the role of Duke Hospital (home, of course, of former SANE nurse-in-training Tara Levicy), and the degree to which Levicy's misconduct could or should have been supervised by Duke officials. Duke actually has two insurance carriers--National Union, wh...

By Jon 1. Ohio University - 1,287 2. Purdue University - 1,068 8. Howard University - 572 9. North Carolina State University - 550 12. Syracuse University - 488 15. Boston University - 470 19. University of Texas at Austin - 371 21. Indiana University - 353 25. Marshall University - 331

By Jon Without a University policy requiring the RIAA to supply evidence of alleged illegal activity, students may have been at risk for erroneous claims of infringement. Many experts have disputed the soundness of the RIAA’s methods of detecting copyright infringement, said Owen Astracha...

By Stephen From the Duke press release about the work of Dr. Warren Warren, a Duke chemistry professor, and his colleagues: The Duke group’s approach involves selective detection of what are called “intermolecular multiple quantum coherences (iMQCs)” in hydrogen atoms. Warren said the use of iMQ...

By dahill About Duke University: Duke University is a private research and liberal arts university located in Durham, NC. Younger than most other prestigious U.S. research universities, Duke University consistently ranks among the very best. Its graduate and professional schools — in business,

 NC - Other North Carolina schools listed in the guide include Catawba College, Davidson College, Duke University, Elon University, Guilford College, NC State, ...

ABC News  NC - Jul 29, 2008 Duke University pulled a 93, and North Carolina State University got a 90. 2008 is the first year The Princeton Review (Nasdaq: REVU), based in New York, ... UNCG Among Princeton Review’s ‘Best 368 Colleges’ 2009 UNCG University News

By noreply@blogger.com (Marco2006) Durham attorney Bob Ekstrand has filed in the North Carolina Middle District Court a civil lawsuit in behalf of Andrew Giuliani against Duke University. Andrew is a senior in good standing at Duke and was on the Duke Golf team. He is considered a talented US amateur Golfer and is the son of Don...

By noreply@blogger.com (Marco2006) The former North Carolina district attorney, who lost his law license for mishandling the criminal case against the players, sought bankruptcy protection Jan. 15 in federal court in Durham, North Carolina. Nifong filed for Chapter 11 protection in hopes of ending the players' legal cla...

By noreply@blogger.com (Marco2006) By February, 2005 she had completed her training, received her R.N. and nursing license (granted February 8, 2005), and began her first job out of nursing school working as a nurse in the Duke University Hospital Emergency Department (C 115).

By JWM(noreply@blogger.com) Today, at The Volakh Conspiracy Northwestern University Law Professor Jim Lindgren posts extracts from KC's post and adds some comments of his own. What does the inclusion of these unsourced ramblings say about the editorial policies of the Duke University Press journal Social Text? . . .

Durham attorney Butch Williams Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC) March 31, 2006 Duke Faculty Encourage Campus Protests Against Lacrosse Players Sam Hummel, Duke's Sustainability Director, chanting 3) “We want the members of the Duke Lacrosse team to come clean.” Duke professor Tim Tyson

By jm117 He is an active member of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), serving on CED’s board of directors and executive committee. He serves on the board of the Florida Venture Forum and the Atlanta Venture Forum, and he has co-chaired the AeA Venture Forum. He also serves on the adv...

By JWM Indoctrinate U will be shown Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7 PM in Reynolds Auditorium in Duke University’s Bryan Student Center. Admission is free for Duke students and faculty, $5 for students of other schools and $10 for the general public.

By Kendall Morgan Collaborators on the study included Bogdan-Ioan Popa, David R. Smith and Marco Rahm of Duke; David Schurig of N.C. State University; John Pendry of Imperial College London; and Anthony Starr of SensorMetrix, Inc. in San Diego, Calif. Contrary to earlier predictions, Duke University engin...

By KC Johnson Friday and Saturday, I will be in Durham to participate in Duke Law School’s “Court of Public Opinion” conference. Former federal judge David F. Levi, now dean of Duke Law School, noted, “All of these cases raise fundamental questions about the proper balance between the rights of the indi...

By The Shelver He justifies using this form of query by citing The well-built clinical question (an online tutorial developed by librarians Connie Schardt, Duke University Medical Center Library and Jill Mayer, University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

By ahr Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, has been appointed provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. Duke President Richard H. Brodhead praised Johnson for her contributions at Duke.  - -

By Kendall Morgan Researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have uncovered a missing link in scientists’ understanding of the physical forces that give DNA its famous double helix shape. “The stability of DNA is so fundamental to life that it’s important to understand all factors,” s...

Apple's ubiquitous iPods are not just for fun anymore. Recently, schools and universities have begun integrating them into their classrooms and curricula. Zachary Pogue of Duke University offers a high-level perspective on the results of their approach. Recasting the iPod as a tool for...

Cover letter from John Burness.Dear Friends:.As you know, this past year has been a difficult one for our university,our community, and particularly for the three young men - and their families - who were falsely accused of crimes by District Attorney Nifong anddeclared innocent of all c...

RALEIGH, N.C. District Attorney Mike Nifong will be disbarred for his disastrous prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape, a disciplinary committee decided Saturday. Even the veteran prosecutor said the punishment was appropriate.

Breaking down in tears at his ethics trial, Mike Nifong abruptly quit as district attorney Friday after admitting he got carried away with statements during his discredited rape prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players.

More than a year after shocking allegations emerged about Duke University\'s lacrosse team, prosecutor Mike Nifong is heading to trial — as a defendant.

Duke University released the names of local seventh graders who will be honored this spring for exceptional scores on college entrance exams. The Duke Talent Identification Program seeks out students in 16 states who have scored in the 95th percentile on standardized grade level exams...

By KC Johnson Examples of such statements abound. From the English Department (Professor Houston Baker), to the Literature Department (Grant Farred), to the Cultural Anthropology Department (Orin Starn), to the Department of African and African-American Studies (Wahneema Lubiano and Mark Ant...

By (not specified)(sonwebmaster@mc.duke.edu) The Duke University School of Nursing invites applications for the position of Director, Nurse Anesthesia Program. This is a full-time, 12 month, faculty position with responsibility to lead the program. The 4 year old program currently admits 20 students annually and includes a total...

By Adam Yoffie Considering the lack of leadership on display by our administrators, who have failed to take charge of this media bonanza, students must take action in order to present a more balanced look at the events in question and overall undergraduate experience at Duke. Students owe it to themsel...

New York Times, United States - DURHAM, NC, May 1 — Duke University lacrosse team members do things in "packs" and often behave irresponsibly when they drink alcohol, but their conduct ... Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - News & Observer - all 11 related