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Academic Council discussed recent feedback from students and faculty members over the discontinuation of the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship Program, approved a new committee dedicated to reviewing academic freedom and free expression at Duke and heard a proposal for degree changes in the School of Nursing at its Thursday meeting.
To explore how stem cells decide to divide into copies of themselves or make new cells, the group researched the expression of stem cells in plants by developing a specialized microscope that takes precise photographs through a technique called light sheet microscopy.
The decision was made “in response to the continued delays in receiving and processing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms."
The senate unanimously voted to confirm all 20 elected officials for the upcoming 31st session of DSG.
Jammula was selected in January through an internal DUU application process overseen by the current president and executive vice president and later voted for by the DUU Executive Board.
The DPS “LEA attrition rate,” which includes teachers that either left the state or left their respective LEA, was 21.1%, exceeding the average LEA attrition rate of 16.8%.
The committee voted to reverse the policy in less than four minutes with no discussion or questions, according to The Associated Press.
The event, which took place in the Korman Assembly Room of Perkins Library, is part of the Provost’s Initiative on the Middle East.
After several rounds of discussion, participants came to a consensus that Duke has an obligation to pursue sustainable and climate-conscious investment management strategies in order to be aligned with the University’s mission, which includes the Climate Commitment that was launched in September 2022.
Paz-Martinez was selected as part of a cohort of 60 college students from 54 institutions around the country.
The nominations will be brought to the Board of Trustees May 11 for election, Epps wrote. The two Young Trustees will not officially take their positions July 1 until they are confirmed by the Board.
The event was sponsored by the Jewish Life at Duke, the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, the department of Asian and Middle Eastern studies, the Duke University Middle Eastern Studies Center and the Jewish Business Association.
Campus residence halls and apartments will close May 6 at noon. Students with extended housing approval and graduating seniors will be able to stay for one extra week until May 13 at noon.
Primary demands of the groups included that Duke divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies, stop receiving research funding from the fossil fuel industry and improve the sustainability of campus infrastructure.
John Rose, Divinity School ‘10 and associate director of the Civil Discourse Project, moderated the event, which took place in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room.
This weekend, the Savannah Bananas, a traveling independent baseball team, brought their Banana Ball World Tour to Durham, playing a three-game weekend series at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in front of sellout crowds from April 12 to 14.
Fumio Kishida is the first sitting Japanese prime minister to visit North Carolina. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper proclaimed Friday as “North Carolina and Japan Friendship Day” earlier this week.
The event, which took place on the first day of Black Maternal Health Week, featured testimonials from women who have been personally affected by increasingly strict abortion bans across the country.
The report, titled “Novel Lactation Induction Protocol for a Transgender Woman Wishing to Breastfeed: A Case Report,” is the fifth report ever published on lactation in a transgender woman, but is the only one that used metoclopramide for lactation induction.
