Duke in the News: April 9, 2007
Extract May Help Treat Bladder Infection | Duke Rethinking Dorms That Divide | The Court's Green Light for Green Tech, and more…
Monday, April 9, 2007
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EXTRACT MAY HELP TREAT BLADDER INFECTION
New York Times, April 8 -- An herbal extract that is sold in health food stores and promoted as an allergy and fat loss aid may improve treatment of urinary tract infections when it is taken with antibiotics, Duke research suggests. (AP story also appeared in the Chicago Tribune and more than 80 news outlets.) ... Full story
--Also, Invanhoe Newswire: Herbal Treatment May Help Keep UTIs Away ... Full story
DUKE RETHINKING DORMS THAT DIVIDE
(Raleigh) News & Observer, April 9 -- A new Campus Culture Initiative report considers eliminating special-interest housing arrangements at Duke. ... Full story
ANALYSIS: THE COURT'S GREEN LIGHT FOR GREEN TECH
Washington Post, April 8 -- Tim Profeta, director of Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, discusses the Supreme Court ruling that may give Congress the oomph to deal with climate change on its own. ... Full story
COMMENTARY: THE COLLEGE CRUNCH -- WHY GETTING IN HAS GOTTEN SO TOUGH
BusinessWeek, April 16 -- Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions at Duke, explains how the college-admissions process has evolved. (Free link now available.) ... Full story
COLUMN: DON’T COUNT ON ARITHMETIC
(London) The Times, April 9 -- In his new book, co-written with his geologist daughter Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Duke geologist Orrin Pilkey challenges the widespread use of computer models to simulate natural phenomena. ... Full story
WILLIAM AND MARY PRESIDENT GETS SUPPORT IN CROSS DEBATE
Newport News Daily Press, April 6 -- Duke constitutional law professor Erwin Chemerinsky puts the College of William and Mary cross controversy in the context of a larger cultural debate about religion's intersection with government. ... Full story
DUKE LACROSSE PLAYERS RECOUNT SEX SCANDAL
(Charlottesville, Va.) Daily Progress, April 8 -- Two Duke lacrosse players talk about the experience of becoming villains in the eyes of their peers and traveling the long journey back to the lacrosse field. ... Full story
--Also, Duke Chronicle: Writers Prep First Round of Lax Books ... Full story
Duke News: Duke and Men's Lacrosse (special website with background information) ... Full story
HOSPICE CHAPLAINS FIND PEACE IN THE MIDST OF LIFE'S STORM
(Fort Wayne, Ind.) News-Sentinel, April 5 -- Jeanne Twohig, deputy director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life at the Duke Divinity School, says the best hospice chaplains are nonjudgmental about a patient's understanding of religion. ... Full story
ON THE AIR
Lt. Col. Stuart Couch, a Duke alumnus who was recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal, will be a guest Tuesday on North Carolina Public Radio’s "The State of Things," talking about his work as a military prosecutor and his decision to refuse to bring charges against a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay because essential evidence allegedly was tainted by torture. http://wunc.org/tsot
