Duke in the News: Sept. 21, 2007

DONATION PLAYS INTO DUKE'S PLAN (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 21 -- Duke University Health System expects to receive a record-setting donation Monday from billionaire developer David Murdock to begin a long-term study of the relationships between lifestyle and disease. ... Full story --Also, Kannapolis (N.C.) Independent Tribune: Murdock Keeps Mum on Upcoming Duke Announcement ... Full story

STUDENTS RALLY FOR JENA SIX Duke Chronicle, Sept. 21 -- A coalition of Duke student groups spent much of Thursday on the West Campus Plaza spreading awareness of the situation in Jena. La. ... Full story

SEC LOOKING AT ALL PLAYERS IN MORTGAGE MARKET WOES Chicago Tribune, AP, Sept. 20 -- James Cox, a professor at Duke who specializes in securities law, discusses the government's "staggering" plans to scrutinize Wall Street banks, investors, credit-rating agencies and others and the role they played in the subprime mortgage crisis. ... Full story

OFFICIALS AT DUKE, UNC VOW ABROAD PROGRAMS ARE CLEAN Triangle Business Journal, Sept. 21 -- As New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo investigates study-abroad providers, officials at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill say their offices are transparent and ethical. (Link to free preview and full text for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Free preview/full story for subscribers

COMMENTARY: DOMESTICATING VIOLENCE Vibe.com, Sept. 17 -- Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke, notes in his blog "that for some American citizens terrorist violence has long been a fact of life" even though this remains "an afterthought in the national consciousness." ... Full story

DURHAM PREPARING FOR RARE EXHIBITION NEXT YEAR (Durham) Herald-Sun, Sept. 21 -- An event headed for Duke's Nasher Museum of Art has some folks waking up at night, making pre-dawn phone calls abroad and boning up on 17th-century Spanish history. ... Full story

THE CONGREGATION'S VOICE BEFORE GOD News & Observer, Sept. 21 -- As cantor on Yom Kippur, Duke professor Eric Meyers will unite his spiritual life and a lifelong love. (with audio) ... Full story

AN AWARD NOW IN THE RECORDS Washington Times, Sept. 21 -- Duke historian John Hope Franklin made his first trip to the National Archives in 1939 as a Harvard graduate student to research freed slaves from North Carolina. On Tuesday evening, he was back in the neoclassical building, being honored with the fourth annual Records of Achievement Award from the Foundation for the National Archives. ... Full story