Duke in the News: Sept. 7, 2007

OUT OF IRAQ, SOME COMMON GROUND Wall Street Journal, Sept. 7 -- Peter Feaver, a political science professor at Duke who helped develop the troop surge plan while serving in the Bush administration, sees an opening for Democrats and Republicans to reach agreement on an Iraq policy. ... Full story

OP-ED: DUKE DOCTORS TREATING AIDS IN TANZANIA (Durham) Herald-Sun, Sept. 7 -- Nestled close to Africa's tallest peak, the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center is hosting several doctors from Duke University Medical Center as part of a global research and clinical collaboration started in 2001 to produce regionally relevant research. ... Full story

FORMER CHIEF SCIENTIST AT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE HEADS TO DUKE Nature.com, Sept. 5 -- New Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences Dean Bill Chameides says his goal is to help shape the next generation of scientists, policymakers and environmental stewards. ... Full story

PACKING ON THE COMPOUNDS San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 6 -- Dr. Ed Levin at Duke is one of a new generation of scientists examining a possible factor in the obesity epidemic. Their research suggests that minute exposures to common chemicals might pre-program children to be obesity-prone from birth. ... Full story

DUKE SURGICAL TEAM RETURNS FROM MEDICAL MISSION WRAL.com, Sept. 1 -- A Duke surgical team headed by Dr. Michael Haglund has returned from a medical mission in Uganda, part of a first-of-its-kind program to train doctors in the use of donated surplus medical equipment. (video) ... Full story

OP-ED: PUT PEOPLE-CENTERED PRINCIPLES TO WORK (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 7 -- Dr. Harold Carmel, associate consulting professor of psychiatry at Duke and president of the N.C. Psychiatric Association, joins two colleagues in reflecting on the state's "broken" mental health system. ... Full story

Q&A: LIVING IN, WORKING ON A SHOEBOX St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 7 -- Cory Rothschild is back at Duke for his senior year and probably enjoying the elbow room after spending the summer in Berlin, crammed into an apartment with 11 other students and working on an Internet start-up. ... Full story

OHIO POLL: MOST WANT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS CNNMoney, AP, Sept. 5 -- Gary Gereffi, director of the Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness at Duke, discusses a poll in which most Ohio voters say they favor restrictions on imports, even if it means higher prices for consumer products. ... Full story

BOOK REVIEW: A NOVEL LOOK AT WHITMAN Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 6 -- Duke University Press has reissued poet Walt Whitman's early temperance novel in a "handsome" paperback edition with scholarly introduction. ... Full story

ON THE AIR Hunt Willard, director of Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, will be a guest today on NPR's Talk of the Nation/Science Friday program at 2 p.m. ET, talking about new findings about our genetic complexity. Details/listen Peter Feaver, a Duke professor who was a member of the National Security Council staff at the White House until he left this summer, was interviewed about the war in Iraq for a report on tonight's NBC Nightly News. ... Website