Wednesday marks the first day of the early signing for all athletes other than in football. High school athletes can sign national letters of intent with colleges. The early period lasts until Nov. 19. Athletes listed have been submitted by their schools as signing during the early period.

President Donald Trump's administration is freezing $108 million in research funding to Duke University as the federal government accuses it of racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action.

Dartmouth College and the University of Notre Dame say they're ending their participation in a Chinese scholarship program House Republicans call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U_S_ will begin revoking the visas of some Chinese students, “including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”.

Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.

Ole Miss and Duke had pep rallies on Wednesday afternoon ahead of Thursday's Gator Bowl.

The woman who in 2006 falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her has admitted publicly for the first time that she made up the story.

Protests over the Israel-Hamas war have spread across U.S. university and college campuses in recent weeks, leading to disruptions and arrests.

Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far.

Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far.

The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble.

Duke University doctors say a baby is thriving after a unique heart transplant.

A police officer patrols in the Chatelet area amidst the new coronavirus pandemic, in Paris, Saturday, March 13, 2021. Some of the nation’s governors routinely block access to public records, keeping the public in the dark about key decisions involving the coronavirus pandemic. Polling shows divides by race and politics, with Black Americans and supporters of former President Donald Trump expressing more skepticism about the vaccines. Richard Hall of the Berkshire COVID-19 Vaccine Collaborative spoke to the The Berkshire Eagle. Ad___WASHINGTON - Commercial air travel appears to be on the upswing despite the coronavirus pandemic.

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University issued a quarantine order for all of its undergraduates effective Saturday night due to a coronavirus outbreak caused by students who attended recruitment parties, the school said. The university said in a statement that all undergraduate students will be forced to stay-in-place until at least March 21. Suspension or dismissal from the school are potential punishments for “flagrant or repeat violators.”Over the past week, the school has reported more than 180 positive coronavirus cases among students. AdItaly has now tallied some 3.2 million cases in the pandemic. The COVAX alliance aims to share COVID-19 vaccines with more than 90 lower and middle-income nations.

In this 2018 photo provided by Duke University, Sam Hammond, university carillonneur, plays the Duke Chapel carillon at the university in Durham, North Carolina. Hammond, who retired as university carillonneur in 2018 after playing the bells at Duke Chapel for five decades, died Thursday at age 73 in Durham, the university said in a news release. When the basketball team played its archrival from the University of North Carolina, he played the Duke fight song. The university said he played music on the bells an average of 300 times a year, estimating his performances exceeded 15,000. In 1986, he was named university carillonneur, becoming the second person to hold that position.

“Our intent was not to say this mask doesn’t work, or never use neck gaiters” an associate research professor told the NYT. According to the Duke study, when someone spoke through a neck gaiter, droplets were broken into smaller ones that could stay in the air longer. But other researchers have since found that it was much more likely that Duke's neck gaiter was shedding microscopic pieces of fibers from the fabric. “Observations from the Duke study have been interpreted to mean that neck gaiters cause droplet breakup and are thus worse than no mask,” said Trinity University professor Ryan Davis. “We are working to develop a comprehensive understanding of this mask material dependence.”All of these scientists said that neck gaiters can protect as well as cloth masks, depending on the material they’re made from.

They come in all different styles and colors, but researchers at Duke University have some advice for which masks to wear and which ones to avoid. They say neck gaiters or fleece masks worn around the neck and pulled up over the mouth and nose are counterproductive and might actually spread COVID-19 instead of stopping it. That's because they found when someone speaks through a neck gaiter, it broke the larger droplets up into smaller ones, which can stay in the air longer. READ: Research on which masks filter droplets bestResearchers discovered that out of 14 commonly used masks, gaiters were the least effective. Looking at other masks tested by the group, medical-grade N-95 masks trapped droplets the best.

Trade war jittersNot only is the trade war increasing uncertainty, but the tit-for-tat battle has deepened the global manufacturing slowdown. The Duke survey has consistently pointed to 2020 as the year when a recession could strike. However, that 2020 recession call has fallen to about about two-thirds during the past two surveys. The Duke survey, which also questions CFOs outside the United States, found that pessimism isn't just an American problem. Eighty-one percent of CFOs in Africa expect a recession will begin in their countries by the third quarter of 2020.

Former Duke University and NBA player Marshall Plumlee graduates from the U.S. Army Ranger school. At seven feet tall, the former NBA player towered over other uniformed graduates at the Army Ranger School in Fort Benning, Georgia, last Friday. Proud of today's Ranger School graduates including 2LT Marshall Plumlee," Hodne wrote. Another Army graduate also made headlines this week -- 1st Lt. Chelsey Hibsch, the first woman in the Air Force to graduate Ranger School. The Pentagon describes Ranger School as "the Army's premier combat leadership course, teaching Ranger students how to overcome fatigue, hunger, and stress to lead soldiers during small unit combat operations."