AMBITIOUS FIRST TRIP FOR RICE SETS NEW FOREIGN-POLICY TONE

Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 3 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to try out the administration's new foreign-policy tone in her travels this week. Bruce Jentleson, director of the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy at Duke, offers analysis. Full story

OP-ED: THE RIGHT COURT TO JUDGE DARFUR ATROCITIES
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 3 -- This week's report by the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur most likely won't lead to the end of ongoing atrocities in Sudan, says Cesare P.R. Romano, a visiting professor at Duke Law School. Full story

WACHOVIA GRANT AIDS DUKE PROJECTS

(Durham) News & Observer, Feb. 3 -- After-school programs for some of Durham's most impoverished children and managers of nonprofit organizations got a $1 million financial boost from a grant to Duke. Full story
--Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: Duke Gets $1M for 2 Programs Full story
(Raleigh) News 14 Carolina: Duke University Receives Funding Full story

CONSERVATIONISTS NAME NINE NEW 'BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS'
National Geographic News, Feb. 2 -- Stuart Pimm, a conservation biologist at Duke, says a nonprofit group's "biodiversity hotspot" strategy is effective at channeling conservation efforts. Full story

LOCAL CATHOLICS PRAY FOR POPE'S RECOVERY

(Durham) ABC 11 News, Feb. 2 -- Father Joe Vetter, who ministers to Catholic students at Duke, marvels at the affection young Catholics show to the elderly pontiff, even if they disagree with his conservative views. Full story

DORFMAN TESTS PLAY AT DUKE
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 3 -- Duke professor Ariel Dorfman's one-act drama "Purgatorio" will have a short workshop run this weekend at Duke's Reynolds Theater, before heading to Broadway. Full story
--Also, (Durham) Independent Weekly: The (Really) Final Exam Full story

SCIENTIST'S LENS CRAFTED BY BOTH ASTROPHYSICS AND FAITH
Science & Theology News, February 2005 -- Arlie Petters defied the odds: Though he grew up in an isolated Central American town, he now teaches mathematics and astrophysics at Duke. Full story

AND GET A GRIP ON ANGER
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 3 -- Dr. Redford Williams, director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Duke, speaks from experience about men's anger-prone tendencies. Full story

BIRD SMARTS

Discovery Channel Canada's Daily Planet Show, Feb. 1 -- Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis explained why bird brains are getting new respect from scientists. (See sixth video item.) Full story

'APPRENTICE' COMES CALLING ON TRIANGLE
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 3 -- The Donald's people are returning to the Triangle. Today they'll meet Duke alumni and graduate/professional students on campus. Full story

SUITS TARGET SIERRA LOGGING PLAN

Los Angeles Times, Feb. 2 -- Nicholas School dean and ecology professor Norm Christensen says experts are agreed that the Sierra Nevada needs widespread thinning to lessen the threat of wildfires. But the focus, he said, "should be on the stuff that burns" ” brush and smaller trees. Full story

BOOK REVIEW: BOSNIAN WOMEN SPEAK THEIR PEACE

Boston Herald, Jan. 30 -- Swanee Hunt, founder of Women Waging Peace, gives voice to 26 Bosnian women in a new book from Duke University Press. Full story

ON THE AIR

Duke neurobiology professor Erich Jarvis leads an international group of avian experts who are redefining the bird brain. He will be a guest Thursday evening on NPR's "On Point" program heard on 45 stations around the country, including WUNC-FM 91.5 from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Ariel Dorfman will discuss the world premiere at Duke of his new play, "Purgatorio," in the second half of Friday's edition of "The State of Things," airing live at 12:30 p.m. on WUNC-FM. Listen live online or later to archived audio. Full story.

An interview with Duke neurobiologist Robert Deaner is scheduled to air on BBC World Service Friday morning at 10 a.m. GMT. Deaner will talk about the results of a Duke study indicating that monkeys, like people, value information based on its social context. Full story