Duke in the News: June 1, 2004
Powell Regains Influence as Iraq Goes Before UN | Fat Cell Tissue Could Cure Neurological Disorders | Emergency Funds Spent to Replace Beach Sand, and more
ANALYSIS: POWELL REGAINS INFLUENCE AS IRAQ GOES BEFORE UN Detroit Free Press, June 1 -- Richard Stubbing, a Duke University public policy professor who worked under three Presidents, comments on Secretary of State Colin Powell's recent heightened profile. ...Full story
FAT CELL TISSUE COULD CURE NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, STUDY SAYS Bloomberg News, June 1 -- Cells from fat tissue can be manipulated to act like nerve cells, and could be used to cure nerve ailments, Experimental Neurology reported, citing a Duke University Medical Center study. ... Full story
EMERGENCY FUNDS SPENT TO REPLACE BEACH SAND Washington Post, May 30 -- Orrin H. Pilkey, a Duke University geologist and longtime critic of federally funded beach fills, comments on the spending of an estimated $15 million for sand. ... Full story --Also, Lakeland Ledger, AP: A Big Storm Has Its Virtues (Professor Brad Murray, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences) Full story (Raleigh) News & Observer: Op-Ed: N.C.'s Sandy Shortfall (Pilkey and Andrew Coburn, associate director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Duke's Nicholas School) Full story
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR St. Petersburg Times, June 1 -- "I don't buy this idea that there's more humiliation in one culture than in the other," said Duke religion professor Ebrahim Moosa, commenting on the Iraqi prison abuses. ... Full story
IS THE U.S. BRAIN GAIN FALTERING? Science, May 28 -- Lewis Siegel, dean of Duke's graduate school, says more U.S. students are interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. (Articles part of a special section on careers of foreign scientists in the U.S.) ...Full story --Also, Science: A Foot in Each Country (Yuan Zhuang, associate professor of immunology at Duke and co-director of the Institute of Developmental Biology and Molecular Medicine at Fudan University) Full story
HUMPBACK WHALE FLIPPERS INSPIRE ENGINEERS TO IMPROVE AIRPLANE WINGS (Durham) Herald-Sun, May 30 -- One hundred years after the first successful human flight, a handful of scientists at Duke and elsewhere are adopting aerodynamic principles from the flippers of one of the world's largest mammals, the humpback whale. ...Full story
FIGHT TO UNIONIZE LAUNDRY WORKERS PUTS DUKE IN THE MIDDLE (Durham) Herald-Sun, May 31 -- More than a month after it outsourced its laundry service to Angelica Corp., the Duke University Health System finds itself mired in the middle of a fight between a New York City-based union and the nation's largest laundry provider. (AP version in Winston-Salem Journal, Charlotte Observer and elsewhere.) ...Full story