The Week at Duke {in 60 Seconds}: Campaign Kickoff, Plant Genetics, A Double-Life

Juniors Audrey Adu-Appiah and Danny Nolan deliver a week's worth of campus news in a minute. Subscribe to the podcast.Three-and-a-quarter billion dollars. That is the fundraising goal for the new Duke Forward campaign to enhance the university's efforts in education, research and service.Five students from Africa have enrolled without cost at Duke this semester through the new The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program.A new device from Duke biologist Philip Benfey allows scientists to track how changes in plant genetics affect their development.Duke history professor Katharine Dubois is leading a double-life.  In addition to teaching classes, she is writing romance fiction novels under the pen name Katharine Ashe!The first of Duke's free online Coursera classes has launched. It's an 8-week course on the role electricity plays in the human body.The new Islamicommentary website offers scholarly perspectives and research on the Muslim experience.And, prepare for a political showdown. Veteran presidential advisers Karl Rove and Robert Gibbs square off in a foreign policy debate October 22 in Page Auditorium.