Duke in the News: Sept. 24, 2007

GREEN MBAs AIM TO BALANCE PROFIT, PLANET New York Times, Sept. 23 -- Officials at Duke's Fuqua School of Business plan to launch an initiative with the Nicholas School that will study the emerging field of doing business in a sustainable context and the advantages to the business community of coming up with innovative practices. (AP story also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and more than 135 other news outlets.) ... Full story

COLUMN: NEW ACTIVISTS RISE TO MEET NEED AT JENA Orlando Sentinel, Sept. 22 -- Karla FC Holloway, a Duke English professor and author, discusses the racial and social history behind the case of the "Jena 6." ... Full story

SEC HAS MUCH AT STAKE IN DOW JONES INSIDER-TRADING CASE International Herald Tribune, Bloomberg News, Sept. 24 -- James Cox, a securities fraud expert at the Duke University School of Law, discusses a high-profile U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint against a Hong Kong couple for insider trading. ... Full story

FIXING THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM? WRAL.com, Sept. 21 -- Duke health economist Dr. Kevin Schulman discusses the trend of Americans leaving the country for health care. ... Full story

COLUMN: BLOGGERS TO TALK SCIENCE (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 22 -- Institutions are paying attention to what Duke employee Anton Zuiker calls a "new way of talking about science." ... Full story

EDITORIAL: WEEK'S END (Durham) Herald-Sun, Sept. 22 -- Zach Maurides, a Duke senior offensive lineman who has developed an Internet-based program to help college athletes and athletic teams manage busy schedules, is this week's winner of the newspaper's "Durham Grit Award." ... Full story