Haters may be questioning Duke’s chances of taking the title in the NCAA tournament, but the Blue Devils have already emerged victorious in at least one way.
Duke can boast the highest-paid graduates among the 65 schools in the competition, according to USA Today. The median annual salary of Duke alumni who graduated five to 15 years ago rounds in at $102,000, according to PayScale–the world’s largest salary database, edging out Cornell at $91,700.
Check out the whole bracket here.
The losers of this tournament? Sadly, Alabama State grads bank $41,800–and is the last seed in the competition. Ouch. Better luck next year, Alabama.
14 Mar 2009, Posted by Naureen Khan in News, 0 Comments
Add KJ to the list of those President Barack Obama is taking to Washington.
Kristina Johnson, who served as dean for the Pratt School of Engineering for eight years, has been nominated by the Obama administration to step into the post of undersecretary of energy, making her the second academic to be recruited to the top slots in the DOE. Currently, Johnson is the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University.
Known for her good nature and numerous contributions to Pratt during her tenure at Duke, Johnson left in 2007 to tackle new challenges at JHU. If confirmed by the Senate, she will be at the forefront of the Obama administration’s efforts to formulate new energy policy, promoting efficiency and renewable, clean energy.
Pick up Monday’s Chronicle for the full story on KJ’s nomination.
05 Mar 2009, Posted by Zachary Tracer in News, 0 Comments
The Clef Hangers sing
Hundreds gathered in The Pit at the heart of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to commemorate the murder of Eve Carson, who was then student body president, a year ago today.
UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp began the ceremony by sharing his personal memories of Carson and calling on students to honor her by performing acts of service.
“Today is a day to celebrate the special kind of person Eve was,” Thorp said. “There was always more love in Eve, especially for Carolina.
The Clef Hangers, a UNC a capella group, performed James Taylor’s Carolina in My Mind, which was one of Eve’s favorite songs.
For full coverage of the event, pick up a copy of tomorrow’s Chronicle.
04 Mar 2009, Posted by Zachary Tracer in News, 0 Comments
A short ceremony tomorrow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of Eve Carson, who was then UNC student body president.
Eve Carson
During the ceremony, to be held in The Pit, UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp will speak about Carson’s role in the community. In addition, The Clef Hangers, a UNC a capella group, will perform James Taylor’s song Carolina in My Mind, which was one of Carson’s favorite songs.
“Tomorrow is going to be all about uplifting the campus and trying not to recreate the really somber mood we had last year,” said UNC sophomore Hogan Medlin, a member of the Service North Carolina committee who is acting as a spokesperson for the event. “We want to give students a way to channel their emotions to do something productive that Eve would be proud of and Eve would want us to do.”
The event will end with a request that students perform acts of service in Carson’s memory, Medlin said.
To help students find service projects that interest them and to track their work, Service NC has set up a Web site, he added.
Service NC usually encourages service in a single week of March, but this year it will encourage student volunteering throughout the month in Carson’s memory.
The idea of working to improve both the Chapel Hill community and the world has become Carson’s legacy at UNC. Carson’s passion for helping others was embodied in her response to the question “Why do you do what you do?” posed by a community art project.
Carson’s answer, written on her hand two days before she was murdered: “I want any excuse to work with my classmates (and help them do what they want to do… because that’s what I wanted to do.)”
At the peak of midterm season, problems with a storage array sidelined wireless Internet access and kept students from accessing Duke Web sites Tuesday evening.
Technological assistants are typically on call in Perkins at the OIT Help Desk until midnight. But due to Tuesday’s snow, no employees were present to assist students with the glitches.
OIT officials could not immediately be reached for comment, but a voicemail recording on the organization’s hotline shed light on the problem:
“We are experiencing problems with one of Duke’s storage arrays. We are working with the vendor, and this has been escalated as a highest severity issue. We suspect a hardware problem and the vendor has parts on standby. We are working to maintain critical services such as web and other services with significant impact. Currents and services that appear to be affected include DHCP, which affects wireless services, web services including the Duke homepage and other Duke sites, Duke Wiki [and] U Portal. There may be other services affected as well. Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve these issues.”
The automated message then instructed callers to visit OIT’s Web site for further assistance with their technological dilemmas—but the site was down for the evening.
Visitors to www.duke.edu were instructed to call the Weather Information Line at 919-684-INFO.
Fortunately, The Chronicle’s Web site has weathered the storm. Pick up tomorrow’s paper or check back with www.dukechronicle.com for more on this story.
