Selected Reporting Samples

Over the course of a year, Duke’s Center for International Development shrank from nearly a dozen full-time faculty and staff to just one. Soon, it will have zero. 

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After the defunding and closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development, compounded with Duke’s own cost-cutting campaign, DCID’s future has become deeply uncertain. As Director Edmund Malesky steps down next week, the center has no clear plan forward.

For worried parents of first year students, reassurance matters as much as the technicalities. That is exactly what Fleming provides for all the Duke Facebook moms and dads.

What Lawson characterized as “the toughest” non-conference schedule in the country saw the Blue Devils struggle as their weaknesses were exposed by highly-ranked opponents. But the sixth-year head coach believes her team is better for having gone through it. 

The Duke men’s basketball team and other participants took part in a one-mile dribble Saturday as part of the annual Dribble for Victory Over Cancer event, raising $64,000 for the Dick Vitale Pediatric Cancer Research Fund at the V Foundation and the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation. 

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case Mahmoud v. Taylor in an order released Friday, Jan. 17.

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The lawsuit alleges that the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) curriculum is unconstitutional in using LGBTQ+ books for it’s K-5 curriculum without an option for parental opt-out. 

An opening loss to a lower-ranked team, an afternoon upset of the No. 1 team in the nation and an emotionally-charged tiebreaker fence-off capped off Duke’s men’s fencing run to a third conference title, the first for head coach Omar Elgeziry.

Eisensmith is teaching a five-week course offered by Duke Dining on the second floor of the Brodhead Center called “Keep Cooking.”  The classes fill within 30 seconds of registration opening, leaving more than 100 students on the waitlist. 

Duke students recently formed a chapter of the Forward Party. Yang, now the party’s co-chair, visited the Law School Monday to meet with some of those students and 10 North Carolina Forward Party representatives, to discuss the party's future.

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) will overhaul its grading policy for the 2025-2026 school year, according to internal documents. Superintendent of Schools Thomas Taylor is set to present these proposed changes to the Board of Education at its regular business meeting this afternoon, April 10.

The Montgomery County Public Schools Board of Education approved its pick for Interim Superintendent, Dr. Monique Felder, on Tuesday, Feb. 6.

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Following the resignation of McKnight Friday and with concerns remaining about former Farquhar Middle School Principal Joel Beidleman, Felder takes the reins at an uncertain time for MCPS.