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- The Strange Case of Duke’s Slavic Department
- Chapel Hill Tenants Struggle to Find Housing Post-Flood
- Affordable Housing for Seniors in Downtown Durham
- ICYMI: Wake Dems Have Ambitious Goals for 2025
- Last Call for Uproar Festival of Public Art
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Duke’s Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies was already small before the university began making cuts this summer in response to federal funding uncertainty, with eight permanent faculty members and two dedicated staff.
Then, Matt Hartman reports for the INDY, both staff positions were eliminated, as was the librarian specializing in Slavic studies, who supported their work.
“Training experts in Russian and Slavic is going to be really important in the coming years,” former department chair Jehanne Gheith told Matt, given the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
What’s more, the Slavic librarian isn’t the only international studies librarian to receive a buyout, Matt reports. According to a list of departures sent to library staff and obtained by The Assembly and INDY, librarians specializing in Jewish and Islamic Studies—both sides of the other war embroiling international politics—are also gone.
Read more below about the unclear fate of Duke’s Slavic department and ongoing cutbacks at the university.
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ORANGE COUNTY
After the Flood
More than a month after Tropical Storm Chantal, Camelot Village tenants are struggling to find new housing and get their money back from landlords, INDY’s Lena Geller reports.
DURHAM COUNTY
Making a Home
Through a collaboration between the city of Durham and other partners, the Ashton Place apartments provide affordable and convenient housing for seniors in pricey downtown Durham, INDY’s Justin Laidlaw reports.
ICYMI
Wake Dems’ Endorsements
The Wake County Democratic Party has set ambitious goals for 2025, including flipping two town councils and knocking on 50,000 doors, INDY’s Chloe Courtney Bohl reports.
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STATE: As heat-related ER visits rise in North Carolina, landlords aren’t required to provide air-conditioning, WUNC reports.
STATE: Atrium Health, the state’s largest health system, will no longer provide gender-affirming medication and surgeries to patients under 19, North Carolina Health News reports.
DURHAM COUNTY: Yesterday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move forward with cutting funding for the National Institutes of Health. Duke University relies heavily on the funding, The Chronicle reports, ranking 11th in total NIH funding last fiscal year.
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