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When first-year students arrive on campus, they encounter over 30 departments in the Trinity School of Arts & Sciences, not to mention Duke’s other schools, like the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Pratt School of Engineering. With so many options for pathways and majors, how do you decide what to study? How do you get an insider’s view of real students’ experiences? You ask a Trinity Ambassador.

The Career Center’s new data collection mechanism is significantly more comprehensive, with an 84% knowledge rate that includes information about students’ careers as late as the December after their graduation. Although the Career Center only has data for the Class of 2022&#...

Nowhere else will you so readily be equipped to do so much.

Even the most critical of first-years agreed that’s how residential dorms’ common spaces created both intra- and inter-dorm communities, but several pointed out that the impact of QuadEx depended more on dorms’ spaces and their utilities, not their proximity.

Traditionally, the arts and sciences have been viewed as two distant fields of study. But it isn’t uncommon to see Duke students who have defined career dreams in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) also majoring or minoring in the performing and visual arts — adding these disciplines to not only their course loads but also their career goals.  

The last day of March was also the first day for about 2,200 applicants from across the globe to learn they have been accepted to Duke University. Just over 50,000 students applied for admission this

We, the Young Professionals, cultivate resumes, not characters. We sacrifice nutrition and seek out networks. We spend our four years mastering whatever roles it takes to get through each week. The starving student who is hungry for degrees, not dinner. The daydreamer who thrives&#x20...

While Duke’s plan to house some first-year students on West Campus for the fall was a positive experience for many, some first-year students have chosen to relocate to East for the spring.

The big story for 2020 is of course the pandemic and how cities, schools and businesses adjusted to the crisis. Still, in looking back there were also other worthy headlines. The volunteers who selflessly made masks for front-liners, police raises and a successful passing of the first ever police millage in Memphis and the strong voice of a young college student from Richmond who wants to see training and curriculum related to diversity and racism introduced at Richmond Community Schools. Here�...