Photo Slideshow: Dean & Britta
Dean & Britta perform "13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's 'Sreen Tests'"
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Hold on to your tents
Krzyzewskiville residents, batten down the hatches. The National Weather Service is predicting gusts of up to 55 miles per hour tomorrow and sustained winds of 25 to 35.
Continue ReadingPhoto Slideshow: Celebratory Bonfire
After Duke's women's basketball team beat UNC at home on Wednesday, students gathered on the main west quad to celebrate the victory by burning some benches. Here's a photo slideshow from photographers Courtney Douglas and Michael Naclerio.
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Photo Slideshow: Orientation Week
On Tuesday, August 24th Duke University’s class of 2014 moved onto campus to start their first year as Duke students. The following days of the week, the new students engaged in orientation events ranging from a picnic on the quad to enjoying at night in downtown Durham. Here’s a photo slideshow of some of the events from Chronicle photographer Courtney Douglas.
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Making the Times wedding pages
Wedding Credential, as an entry on New York Magazine's "Daily Intel" blog put it, just might be the perfect tool for the "snobby spouse-hunters" out there.
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Chronicle named top 10 college newspaper
The Princeton Review announced its latest college rankings and ranked The Chronicle 9th in its top 10 list of college newspapers.
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Gates and Rubenstein pledge majority of wealth to charity
Two Duke alumni who have donated substantially to the University have pledged at least half their fortunes to philanthropy. Melinda French Gates, Trinity '86 and Fuqua '87, and David Rubenstein, Trinity ’70, committed Wednesday to donating a majority of their wealth to charity by taking the Giving Pledge, an effort to encourage the wealthiest individuals and families to return their fortunes to philanthropy.
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DuTrack Alpha launched for Duke bus tracking
Matthew Ball, Trinity '10, may be revolutionizing the way students, faculty and staff take the bus at Duke. In collaboration with the Office of Information Technology and Parking and Transportation Services, Ball recently launched an alpha version of DuTrack, a GPS-based bus tracking system that he developed for Duke bus-goers.
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Class of 2010 graduation speaker to appear on The Simpsons
Muhammad Yunus's spot on the popular television show will focus on the Grameen Bank—which he founded—and microcredit, according to the BBC. Yunus, who spoke served as the commencement speaker in May, is considered the father of microfinance—a technique to eliminate poverty by providing poor indivduals with small loans. In 2006, Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Benjamin N. Duke's former New York City mansion sells for $44 million
Duke-Semans mansion, which was originally owned by Benjamin N. Duke, sold for $44 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. Duke's descendants owed the mansion until for over a century before selling it in 2006 for $40 million.
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Posner to host radio show on SIRIUS XM
Posner, Trinity' 10, will host the first episode of The Mike Posner Show on September 10 on SIRIUS XM's Faction, according to a press release. Posner will share his favorite songs with his fans at 9 p.m. each Friday.
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Study: Most effective means of preventing alcohol abuse not the most common
A story by Iza Wojciechowska, Trinity '08 and former news editor of The Chronicle, looks into the ways universities address alcohol abuse in light of policy recommendations made by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in 2002.
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The Harvard Crimson: When "Facebook" was "The Facebook"
Six and a half years later, seemingly every kid on campus has one. But back in 2004, future billionaire and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was happy to have a few hundred people register on his website.
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Duke University Medical Center Ranked No. 10
Of the nearly 5,000 hospitals considered by the U.S. News and World Report, Duke University Medical Center ranked 10th. Its top 10 finish is DUMC's 21st in a row—or every year since the magazine began the rankings.
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Starting and mid-career salaries after Duke
Duke graduates earn a starting salary of approximately $55,000, and by the middle of their career take in around $117,000 annually. Although Duke is not ranked in the top 10 list of starting salaries, it is listed nine overall in the mid-career rankings.
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