Duke in the News: Sept. 28, 2007

GENES MIGHT PREDISPOSE ANTIDEPRESSANT USERS TO SUICIDAL THOUGHTS U.S. News & World Report, Sept. 27 -- Researchers at Duke are working to further clarify the links, if any, between antidepressant use and suicide ideation. (HealthDay News story also appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution and more than 75 other news outlets.) ... Full story

ECONOMIST WINS TOP DUKE TEACHING AWARD (Durham) Herald-Sun, Sept. 28 -- Amid the pomp of Founders' Day, Duke officials passed out a bundle of teaching awards Thursday, reserving the highest for a professor credited with transforming the university's economics department. ... Full story --Also, Duke Chronicle: Duke Commemorates Past ... Full story

NOTA BENE: 'DISSIDENT SYRIA' Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 28 -- Duke professor Miriam Cooke plunges deep into Syrian life to chronicle the battles between the nation's Baathist rulers and its artists. ... Full story

EARLY PRIMARIES MAY STYMIE MILITARY VOTING Washington Dateline, Media General News Service, Sept. 28 -- Duke law professor Scott Silliman discusses the reasons why many soldiers in Iraq may not get a vote in the upcoming presidential primaries. ... Full story

CATALYSTS STAMP NANOPATTERNS WITHOUT INK UPI, Sept. 27 -- Duke scientists have used enzymes from E. coli bacteria to create imprints on microdevices such as labs-on-a-chip, without the use of ink. ... Full story

THE PERFECT POOCH FOR YOU Discovery Channel, Sept. 26 -- Lisa Cavanaugh's Ph.D. studies at Fuqua include research into the sometimes complex relationships between humans and dogs. ... Full story

STOP-SMOKING THERAPIES HAVE BENEFITS, RISKS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN Washington Post, Sept. 26 -- Kathryn Pollak, associate professor of prevention research at Duke University Medical Center, discusses the efforts of pregnant women to quit smoking. ... Full story

OP-ED: SHINE A LIGHT ON BLOOD-SUBSTITUTE STUDY Herald-Sun, Sept. 28 -- Karla Holloway, a professor of English and law at Duke, says Durham County residents are among those with a keen interest in the outcome of research that may lead to the development of an effective blood substitute. ... Full story

DOT-COM: THE NEW WAVE (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 28 -- Among a new crop of dot-com entrepreneurs, count the Duke students behind Shoeboxed, a startup that helps archive receipts and filter spam e-mail. ... Full story

SOUTHERN CHARM IS A BIG PART OF THE APPEAL (London) The Times, Sept. 27 -- A Fuqua dean and second-year student talk about the advantages of attending a Southern U.S. business school. ... Full story

DUKE'S MEDICAL SURPLUS FINDS NEW LIFE IN UGANDA Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 21 -- Dr. Michael M. Haglund, an associate professor of neurosurgery and neurobiology at Duke, describes the high point of last month's journey to an impoverished hospital in Kampala. ... Full story

ON THE AIR Duke alumnus Steven Petrow, an award-winning writer and former president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, will be a guest on North Carolina Public Radio's "The State of Things" today, talking about recent political gains and the challenges still facing North Carolina's LGBT community. This weekend's North Carolina Pride Festival will be held on Duke's East Campus. ... Details/listen