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Each year, Duke Service-Learning recognizes students, faculty and community partners with the Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Awards. Betsy Alden was a pioneer in service-learning, beginning her work at Duke during the 1980s. Read more about the legacy of Betsy Alden HERE.

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s 1978 show in Durham that is regarded by many as one of the best stops on the tour.

Julian Robertson, the UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus and Duke parent whose gift established a successful and unusual program where students attended classes at both institutions and develop their

A university committee is seeking comments as part of a scheduled administrative review of Vice President for Durham and Community Affairs Stelfanie Williams. Reviews of senior administrators are typically conducted in the fourth year of a five-year term, and the results compiled in a confidential report. This will be the first such review for Williams, who has served in her position since August 2018. Members of the review committee are:

The Grateful Dead performed five times at Duke University from 1971 to 1982.

What can incoming students in the year 2021 learn from an iconic band symbolic of the 1960s counterculture? A lot, said the Duke professor who taught Long

We’ve received several inquiries about the travel restrictions tied to the new ‘variant of concern’, Omicron.  The World Health Organization (WHO) made this variant one of concern last week.  This led governments around the globe to reassess how they handle travel to and from those nations with recorded cases of Omicron.  Some nations have chosen to close their borders to all foreign nationals.  As of this morning, this included Israel, Morocco and Japan.  There will likely be other ...

A new exhibit at Perkins Library will explore the Grateful Dead and its appearances in Durham performing here at Duke. The legendary rock band known for its perpetual touring performed four times at Cameron Indoor Stadium and once more at Wallace Wade Stadium between 1971 and 1982. A trove of concert posters, internal communications and other ephemera associated with those performances are housed in the Duke archives.

“Sometimes when you do a national search, it turns out that the best person for the position is right around the corner,” Eric Mlyn said. Andrew Lakis, a Duke graduate who serves as the executive director of Teach for America for Eastern North Carolina, was nam...