Duke in the News: Jan. 19, 2007
Duke Plans Cancer Center | Measles Deaths Drop by 60 Percent | Rabbi: See Through Eyes of Enemies, and more…
Friday, January 19, 2007
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DUKE PLANS CANCER CENTER
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Jan. 19 -- Duke's plans for a new cancer center could put in motion broader changes for the hospital complex. ... Full story
MEASLES DEATHS DROP BY 60 PERCENT
The New York Times, AP, Jan. 19 -- Dr. Samuel Katz, co-inventor of the measles vaccine and an infectious diseases specialist at Duke, discusses problems that may undermine any global campaign to eradicate measles. ... Full story
RABBI: SEE THROUGH EYES OF ENEMIES
(Durham) Herald-Sun, Jan. 19 -- Only when we see the world through someone else's eyes -- our enemies' -- can conflict be resolved, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks told a packed auditorium at Duke's Bryan Center Thursday night. ... Full story
--Also, Duke Chronicle: Rabbi Sacks Speaks on Our 'Extraordinary' Time ... Full story
BLACK STUDENT COLLEGE GRADUATION RATES INCH HIGHER
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Winter 2006/2007 -- A report lists Duke among universities with the highest black student graduation rates. ... Full story
PRESERVING DURHAM'S PAST
Herald-Sun, Jan. 19 -- Duke historian John Hope Franklin helps to kick off a Durham program intended to pump new life into the heart of the area once known as America's "Black Wall Street." ... Full story
OUTSMARTING THE MARKET
BusinessWeek, Jan. 22 -- A theory offered by Duke's David A. Hsieh, a leading hedge fund scholar, is cited in a report on Barclays' pursuit of advantage through research. ... Full story
NOBEL WINNER AT DUKE PUSHING FOR SURGE IN SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
Triangle Business Journal, Jan. 15 -- Dr. Peter Agre, vice chancellor for science and technology at Duke, sees scientific inquiry and experimentation as a spark that is lacking in many classrooms in the U.S. today. ... Full story
BOOK REVIEW: WOMAN WAGING PEACE
Newsweek, Jan. 22 -- Swanee Hunt's life story, told in a new memoir from Duke University Press, is "as modestly opulent as a meal of black-eyed peas and corn bread served on fine china." ... Full story
MAGAZINE LAUDS DUKE GENETICIST
Duke Chronicle, Jan. 17 -- Discover Magazine cites Dr. Anil Potti for a study he led to develop genetic predictors that analyze the likely responses of individual cancer patients to different forms of chemotherapy. ... Full story
TEACHER AMONG THOSE CALLING FOR STRICTER GUN LAW
Charlotte Observer, Jan. 18 -- During a forum at Duke's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, speakers seek to make guns easier to track and harder to get for those who shouldn't have them. ... Full story
ON THE AIR
Duke professor Joel Fleishman, author of "The Foundation: A Great American Secret -- How Private Wealth Is Changing the World," will be the guest on Book TV’s "After Words" program on C-SPAN2, to be telecast at 9 p.m. ET Saturday and at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET on Sunday. ... Details
