Duke has joined an educational venture called "Semester Online." Through the program Duke students will be able to take online courses for credit from nine other colleges."How much can we enable our students to have access to courses that we can’t ourselves teach or that they can’t take when they most need them because we’re not teaching them at that time, through this experience while maintaining the quality and rigor of what we’re doing?” Provost Peter Lange said.Eric Toone is the new leader of the Duke’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative. Toone is himself entrepreneur and also a professor of chemistry.Speaking of entrepreneurship ... Duke alumni running startup businesses presented their plans to potential investors at the annual DukeGEN Angel Pitch event.Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt had students cheering, laughing and dancing during a recent multimedia performance on campus.