Duke in the News: July 27, 2007

A GREEN LIVING Newsweek, July 26 -- Graduates of the class of 2007, including Kevin Dudney from Duke, are finding that being environmentally friendly is a growth industry. ... Full story

OP-ED: WHAT FERTILITY PATIENTS WANT (Raleigh) News & Observer, July 27 -- Dr. Anne Lyerly, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke, writing with a colleague, says restrictive stem cell policies "fail to respect the consciences of the majority of the people most intimately connected to embryos." ... Full story

SCIENCE CAMP North Carolina Public Radio News, July 27 -- An academic enrichment program at Duke is giving kids from families with limited financial resources a chance to get their hands dirty and do some real science. ... Full story

POTTER FANS MOURN END OF 10-YEAR ERA New York Times, July 26 -- Heather Mitchell, a Duke graduate student who is one of the organizers of a Harry Potter convention in Toronto next month, discusses the grief some fans of the epic series are experiencing as they realize that an era has ended for them. (Reuters story also appeared in the Washington Post and more than 105 other news outlets.) ... Full story

SEC APPROVES ONE WATCHDOG FOR BROKERS BIG AND SMALL Washington Post, July 27 -- Duke law professor James D. Cox, who tracks developments in securities law, says a new single watchdog for brokers from Wall Street to Main could be "the first shoe of many to drop in ultimately moving to a single regulator" in the United States. ... Full story

ANALYSIS: WILL YOUTUBE REVOLUTIONIZE '08 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES? Tucson Citizen, Gannett News Service, July 26 -- Duke media policy professor Ken Rogerson looks at how the YouTube phenomenon might shake up the format of presidential debates. ... Full story --Also, Indianapolis Star, Washington Post Writer's Group: Column -- Pull the Plug on Electronic Town Hall ... Full story

BASEBALL HISTORY COMES TO LIFE St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 26 -- Jim Provenzale, a neurologist and neuroradiologist at Duke, has mixed his career with his love of baseball by researching baseball players with neurological disorders. ... Full story

CRITIC'S PICKS -- ART News & Observer, July 27 -- From the selection of recent acquisitions on view at the Nasher Museum of Art, "challenging contemporary directions" for the Duke collection are being charted. ... Full story

OP-ED: HOW N.C. MISTREATS ITS BEACHES (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record, July 22 -- "We have grown to accept our beaches as engineering projects not much different from highways," says Orrin Pilkey, director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Duke. ... Full story

TECHNOLOGY CAMPS FOR KIDS MORE THAN FUN AND GAMES Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, July 26 -- Students at Cybercamps -- offered at Duke and other campuses -- experience "a kind of immersion in technology they can't get anywhere else." ... Full story

BOOK REVIEW: 'KISS' IS CHARMING COLLECTION (Salt Lake City) Deseret News, July 22 -- Recent Duke graduate Courtney Queeney writes about fame, nocturnal housekeeping, insomnia and narcolepsy, eloping alone -- and astigmatism. ... Full story