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The Week at Duke {in 60 Seconds}: Perdue Joins Sanford School; 'Radoozle' Website; V-Day Tip

Juniors Emily Sobel and Danny Nolan deliver a week's worth of campus news in a minute

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The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education is officially open. The School of Medicine"s new six-story facility includes lecture halls, classrooms, meeting areas and simulation labs.

Former North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue will join Duke"s Sanford School in the fall as a distinguished visiting fellow. 

More than 70 Duke alumni returned to campus last weekend to help current students explore job options at the Duke Career Conference. 

A study from Duke Medicine finds a father's obesity may increase his children's risk for diseases such as cancer.

Click and eat. The new Radoozle website by sophomore Sam Waters lets you order food online from nearby restaurants.

And, it's Valentine's Day so we leave you with this tip from pharmacology professor Cynthia Kuhn about the limits of chocolate's power as an aphrodisiac. She said: "It would take about 50 chocolate bars to cause a behavioral arousal, and your romantic partner might regret the experiment."