Duke in the News: June 20, 2007

BRODHEAD PRAISES DUKE TIES TO DURHAM (Durham) Herald-Sun, June 20 -- Duke University President Richard Brodhead praised the school's ties with Durham Tuesday during an hour-long question-and-answer session with about 200 campus employees. ... Full story --Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: Duke Deal Shields Faculty ... Full story Duke News: Duke and Men's Lacrosse (special website with background information) ... Full story

NANOPARTICLE TO BE USED TO TREAT GLAUCOMA UPI, June 19 -- Duke undergraduate Serge Reshetnikov helped to create a nanoparticle to be used as a drug delivery device in treating glaucoma, an eye disease that affects millions of people. ... Full story

OP-ED: A SIMPLE WAY TO CONSERVE WATER (Hawaii) Maui News, June 17 -- Tia Ferguson, a rising senior in Duke's public policy program, makes the case for requiring dual-flush toilets and waterless urinals. ... Full story

ADF FILM AIRS News & Observer, June 20 -- The American Dance Festival, under way at Duke through July 21, will take the national spotlight tonight when PBS' "Great Performances" presents a fourth installment of "Free to Dance," ADF's Emmy Award-winning series. ... Full story --Also, Winston-Salem Journal: TV Review -- Choreographers Say It With Movement ... Full story News & Observer: Dance Review -- Russians Push the Boundaries ... Full story

TB SCARE IN S.C. PUTS IMMIGRANTS' HEALTH IN SPOTLIGHT Charlotte Observer, June 20 -- Dr. Jason Stout, an infectious disease specialist at Duke who serves as one of North Carolina's tuberculosis consultants, discusses a growing health threat: immigrants increasingly carrying TB to the United States. ... Full story

CUOMO: STUDENT LOAN RATES PEGGED TO DEFAULT LEVELS AT COLLEGES CNN, AP, June 19 -- Some student loan providers have been setting rates based on the schools borrowers attend, a practice New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says benefits Duke students among others. ... Full story

COMMENCEMENT 2007: RICK WAGONER U.S. News & World Report, June 19 -- Rick Wagoner, GM's CEO and chairman, highlighted the promise of technology and also the virtues of perseverance during his recent commencement speech at Duke, his alma mater. ... Watch

U.S.G.A.'S URBAN DRIVE IS WELL SHORT New York Times, June 16 -- Duke professor Orin Starn, who is researching a book on golf and American society, discusses the politics of the United States Golf Association. (Link to preview; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Preview/full story for subscribers

Q&A: RISE AND TITHE Nextbook.org, June 18 -- Joel Fleishman, a professor of law and public policy at Duke and the author of "The Foundation: A Great American Secret," talks about the injunction to give, as written in the Bible, and the evolution of philanthropy among American Jews. (with audio) ... Full story

ON THE AIR Harris Cooper, director of Duke's Program in Education, will be a guest this week on "Art Fennell Reports," airing in the Philadelphia region on the Comcast Network (CN8) Monday through Friday at 10 p.m. and streaming live on http://CN8.tv/. Cooper will talk about how parents can help their children retain knowledge over the long summer break. Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, director of Duke's Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Program and director of the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank, will be the guest from 11 a.m. to noon today on (Carrboro, N.C.) WCOM-103.5 FM's "Radio In Vivo" science program. She will talk about umbilical cord blood and bone marrow transplantation. Archived audio will later be available on the web. ... Details/listen