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Duke in the News: May 12, 2003

The World Awaits New Graduates | Op-Ed: SARS Shows Why U.N. Is Vital | Dukes Top Doctor to Receive Immigrant Award, and more...

 

THE WORLD AWAITS NEW GRADUATES (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 12 -- For 3,558 students at Duke University and 393 at Meredith College, Sunday was graduation day. ... Full story --Also, News 14 Carolina: Duke Students Graduate Full story& (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun: Graduates at Duke Get Advice Full story Herald-Sun: Togetherness Emphasized on Special Day Full story

 

OP-ED: SARS SHOWS WHY U.N. IS VITAL (Walnut Creek, Calif.) Contra Costa Times, May 10 -- The next time you hear an American politician attack multilateralism in general, or the United Nations in particular, think of SARS -- and vote for someone else, says Robert O. Keohane, the James B. Duke Professor of Political Science at Duke University. ...Full story

 

DUKE'S TOP DOCTOR TO RECEIVE IMMIGRANT AWARD (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, May 10 -- Duke University Health System CEO Ralph Snyderman said when his parents, Morris and Ida, left the Russian village of Pecherer in the early 1920s their names were different, their world was in shambles and their future was tenuous. ...Full story

 

SYSTEM FINE-TUNES BREAST CANCER TREATMENT (Ft. Worth) Star-Telegram, May 12 -- The face of breast cancer treatment is poised to get a new look as doctors at Duke and in Taipei work to perfect a system known as "genetic profiling." It could revolutionize treatment of all cancers. ...Full story --Also, Wired News: New Test Spots Nastiest Tumors Full story

 

DUKE BOARD ELECTS NEW CHAIRMAN (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 12 -- Duke University alumnus Peter M. Nicholas has been elected chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees. ... Full story --Also, (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun: Nicholas Tapped as Duke Trustees Chair Full story

 

EDITORIAL: A TRIBUTE FOR JESICA (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 12 -- Big Business, Big Government and other Big Institutions of modern life are sometimes guilty of paying too little attention to little people. Duke Hospital commendably now shows that it isn't one of those. ... Full story --Also: WRAL.com: Officials Release Santillan Autopsy Full story High Point Enterprise: Editorial: Duke's Generous Gesture May Not Avert a Lawsuit Full story

 

FORM-FITTING PROTEINS COULD BE GOLD Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 11 -- Imagine that Cinderella had terrible feet. If a shoemaker could insert the dimensions of the unlucky maiden's feet into a computer -- creating a three-dimensional image that spat out a recipe for a form-fitting shoe -- the task would be a breeze. Biochemists at Duke University have developed computer software for such a system. But instead of designing shoes, they are designing proteins. ...Full story

 

EDITORIAL: BETTER HEALTH FOR WEST END (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, May 12 -- The Lyon Park wellness center opened last week to well-deserved applause. ...Full story

 

HUDSON, FORMER DUKE TRUSTEE; OLDEST BUILDING'S NAMESAKE WAS 78 (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 11 - Fitzgerald S. "Jerry" Hudson, former chairman of the Duke University board of trustees and namesake of the Duke Engineering School's oldest building, died of complications from a stroke Friday in Montgomery, Ala. He was 78. ... Full story

 

CHECK THAT DATE: MERRITT RAISE (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 12 -- Tift Merritt will get some national TV exposure this week, in a report about the FCC and the radio industry. It will be a follow-up to her testimony at Duke University's recent FCC hearings, where Merritt spoke about the difficulties new artists face in trying to get airplay. Look for her on "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on ABC. ... Full story

 

FINGERPRINTS OF CHRISTIANITY CLEAR ON SOUTH AFRICA STORY Reading (Penn.) Eagle, May 10 -- The tale of the end of apartheid in South Africa is not primarily a religious one, but the fingerprints of Christianity are all over it. That's the clear impression the Rev. Peter Storey, a retired South African Methodist bishop who is now a professor at the Duke Divinity School, left with his Albright College audience. ...Full story

 

SUMMERTIME BLUES: CEOs LOOK BACK (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 11 -- Duke University Health System CEO Dr. Ralph Snyderman had his share of crummy jobs as a teenager growing up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, in the 1950s. Too many to come up with just one "worst," he said. ... Full story

 

SONS OF WHITE SOX GM ARRESTED (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 11 -- The general manager of the Chicago White Sox, in town for his daughter's graduation from Duke University, had to bail his sons out of jail Saturday after they were arrested on charges they broke into two cars, warrants say. ... Full story

 

DOES PUNISHMENT FIT CAMPUS CRIME? (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, May 11 -- All students caught violating drug and alcohol policies are referred to the dean of students. But about 60 percent of Duke students -- and about 96 percent of NCCU students -- are not arrested or cited for violating minor drug offenses. The students face possible disciplinary action behind the campus walls instead. ...Full story