Duke in the News: June 13, 2007

FOUR PROFESSORS WILL RECEIVE SHAW PRIZES, THE 'NOBELS OF THE EAST' Chronicle of Higher Education, June 13 -- Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Duke University Medical Center, has received the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for 2007 for demonstrating how "chemical messengers" are received and interpreted by certain cells in the body. ... Full story --Also, (China) People's Daily Online: Four U.S. Scientists Win 2007 Shaw Prize ... Full page (Durham) Herald-Sun: Duke Researcher Gains $1M Shaw Prize ... Full story

ETHICS HEARING FOR DUKE PROSECUTOR New York Times, June 13 -- Two months after sexual assault charges against three former Duke lacrosse players were dismissed, the prosecutor who brought the case is facing charges that could lead to his own disbarment. ... Full story --Also, Duke News: Duke and Men's Lacrosse (special website with background information) ... Full story

OP-ED: HOW TRACKING GENES CAN KEEP YOU WELL (Raleigh) News & Observer, June 13 -- "Pinpointing the parts of our genome that carry variants associated with disease puts us that much closer to our goal of being able to provide truly personalized health care," writes Huntington F. Willard, the director of the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke. ... Full story

PROGRESS MADE ON ALZHEIMER'S CBS Evening News, June 11 -- As a new study forecasts that the number of Alzheimer's patients will quadruple by 2050, Dr. P. Murali Doraiswarny at Duke University Medical Center discusses promising research news. ... Watch

TASK FORCE TO ASSESS SAFETY ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES News & Observer, June 13 -- Duke police chief and associate vice president Aaron Graves will speak today before a North Carolina task force on campus safety set up following the Virginia Tech shootings. ... Full story

RIGHT WHALES STUDIED AS NEW LOBSTER RULES ARE MULLED Boston Globe, June 12 -- Duke scientists are working on an initiative aimed at developing lobster gear that won't harm endangered right whales and won't put too much of a burden on Maine's nearly 6,000 commercial lobstermen. ... Full story

20 PEOPLE WHO CHANGED BLACK MUSIC Kansas City Star, BlackAmericaWeb.com, June 11 -- Mark Anthony Neal, associate professor of African American studies at Duke, says it is to Stevie Wonder's credit that he never used his disability for advantage. ... Full story

BEYOND THE FIGHT Newsday, June 10 -- By studying law at Duke, Jessica Foschi jumped at the chance to look closer into what happened to her more than a decade ago as a teenaged swimmer. ... Full story

COLUMN: CHEAP MONEY WILL BITE ASIA IF WAGES DON'T SLOW Bloomberg News, June 12 -- A Duke University/CFO Magazine survey reveals that chief financial officers in Asia are bracing for a 10 percent increase in their wage outlays in the next 12 months, but only expect labor productivity to grow 4 percent. (Column also appeared in Singapore's Today newspaper.) ... Full story