Brooke is a striking tuxedo kitten with a white blaze and glowing green eyes. She is an adventure seeker and is quite curious about the world around her. Brooke is confident and friendly, stepping up to greet passersby with a rub and purr. This outgoing young lady could bring affection and fun to any family. Come […]
This week we’re featuring puppies – specifically trio Jack, Terri and Chrissy in P10. They’re all very adorable and sweet and waiting for their forever home! For more information about the puppies, contact doginfo@apsofdurham.org. Watch their cute video here. Adoption fees for dogs and puppies range from $100-$175, which includes a basic medical exam, spay or neuter surgery, microchip implantation, rabies and
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Maggie and Emma are a bonded bunny pair and are adorably cute! Emma is just as sweet as can be. She is peaceful and lovely, and her little soft tuft of fuzz between her ears makes her as cute as a button! She may need you to convince her at first that you are not scary, but once
New Look. New classes. New reasons to be healthier! The newly renovated Duke Health and Fitness Center opened January 12. The Fitness Center has undergone an eight-month, multimillion dollar renovation, which includes the Sports Medicine group in an upstairs mezzanine. The rejuvenated facility offers some significant improvements including: a private exercise studio for mind and
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“The active, engaged, passionate parents make a true partnership,” says Channa Pickett. She is the director of Enlaces, a youth outreach program launched in October 2009 by Duke’s Office of Durham and Regional Affairs and nonprofit organization El Centro Hispano. The strengths-based program serves grades fourth through seventh at six elementary and middle schools to
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Duke University’s annual Make A Difference Day, sponsored by Duke’s Office of Durham and Regional Affairs took place on a sunny October Saturday at the Ronald McDonald House of Durham and E.K. Powe Elementary. The service day focused on connecting university students to their surrounding community of Durham, establishing a relationship of service and giving
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How might a local high school make use of a flying, camera-bearing quadcopter? Could Skype offer a novel way for students to connect with books? What kind of connections could be made between Duke students and an elementary school technology club? Tackling these questions is all in a day’s work for David Stein, the Duke
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Anne Yeung always loved her experience as a Duke student, but during her sophomore year, she began to feel something was missing. “Being engaged in the community around me has always been important to me,” Anne says. “But I hadn’t yet found an opportunity to practice that at Duke in a way that allowed me
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When Duke University kicked off its Southside Housing Incentive Program last year, the goal was to encourage Duke employees to become some of the first stable homeowners in the revitalized Southside neighborhood. The initiative, offered to employees meeting certain income qualifications, was one of several ways that Duke partnered with the City of Durham and
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Izzy Salazar, age 13, can see it in her mind’s eye, little John Hope Franklin, age 7, crying on an Oklahoma train platform. The boy who would go on to be a legendary historian and civil rights advocate had been kicked off a train, along with his mother and sister, simply because of the color
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