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This is the first in a series of diary entries by Isabella Helton, one of a group of Duke students who will write about their summer travels for Duke Today. Read more of Isabella's entries here.Bonjour! My name is Isa– short for Isabella. I am 19 and spend nearly all of my free time listening to French podcasts or watching French TV series, reading, cooking, and cafe- read more about Duke Diary Dispatch: Bonjour, Paris! »

This is the first in a series of diary entries by Montana Lee, one of eight Duke students who will write about their summer travels for Duke Today.I’m Montana Lee. I’m a born and raised New Yorker (I call the Upper West Side home), I’m 18 years old, I took a gap year after high school, and I just finished up my first year of college. I haven’t chosen a major yet, but I have a few ideas after exploring widely during my first read more about Duke Diary Dispatch: Hello from Togo! »

Two Duke alumni and one graduating senior have been awarded the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate study at Stanford University. Maya Sheth, class of 2020, Anjali Gupta, class of 2022, and Duke graduating senior Sydney Hunt have each received up to three years of financial support at Stanford.Sheth, Gupta and Hunt are members of the sixth Knight-Hennessy cohort and are among the 10 Duke students who have received the scholarship since the program welcomed its first class in 2018.   read more about Two Alumni, One Senior Receive Scholarship for Graduate Study at Stanford »

Translanguaging — the practice of leveraging all of one's linguistic knowledge to create meaning — is a pedagogical practice that meets students where they are in the process of learning a new language by validating individual experiences and allowing for mistakes. “Translanguaging Fridays” is the brainchild of two faculty from the Department of Romance Studies, in which students from Spanish 111 and French 111 come together as one multilingual community. The two courses are accelerated read more about Translanguaging Fridays: Space for Language Learning While Making Mistakes »