January 25, 2005

POWER OF RELIGION ABC's Good Morning America, Jan. 23 -- Dr. Harold Koenig, the co-director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke, was asked whether he thinks "human beings are just hard-wired to be spiritual." (Transcript upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) --Also, ABC News: Is God an Anti-Depressant? (Dr. Koenig) Full story

OP-ED: LEAP OF FAITH Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 25 -- Duke Divinity professor David C. Steinmetz considers whether President Bush can bridge the gap between his ideals and the reality of a "complex and dangerous" world. Full story

OP-ED: BETTER FUTURES FOR WOMEN IN ENGINEERING (Raleigh) News & Observer, Jan. 25 -- Kristina M. Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke, is convinced that "any girl or minority child can succeed in engineering and science with the proper education, support and encouragement." Full story

LIBRARY COLLECTIONS FIND HOME ONLINE Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 25 -- Before Google began scanning books, many libraries, including Duke's, were digitizing their most popular and rarest of collections and creating Web sites that put those collections in context. Full story

TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES LAGGING ON TECH TRANSFER MSNBC, Triangle Business Journal, Jan. 23 -- While they take in significantly more in research grants, Duke, NCSU and UNC trail Wake Forest in licensing revenue. Full story

EDITORIAL: DUKE'S WINNING HAND (Durham) Herald-Sun, Jan. 23 -- Bill Gross has come a long way since his college career at Duke, when he spent summers managing slot machines at a casino in Lake Tahoe, Nev., saving money by sleeping in his 1958 Nash Rambler. Full story

DUKE PARTY BUSTED Herald-Sun, Jan. 25 -- Durham police, responding to noise complaints, break up several weekend parties in neighborhoods near East Campus. Full story

BOOK REVIEW: POLITICS ON THE PLATE Baltimore Sun, Jan. 23 -- A book from Duke University Press, "It's All for Sale," succeeds in stirring up the debate over government subsidies, corporate agribusiness and genetically modified crops. Full story

PALESTINIAN FILM DRAWS ON REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCES Herald-Sun, Jan. 21 -- A Duke-UNC series will show a February two-film program about the late scholar Edward Said, probably the world's most recognized Palestinian intellectual, as well as other films that are not readily available at the multiplexes. Full story