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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 nations added to this list in the coming days.

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 named the executive director of the Robertson Scholars Leadersh...