Duke in the News: Oct. 7, 2003

CONSERVATIVE EPISCOPALIANS CONSIDER SPLIT WITH CHURCH Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 7 -- Conservative Episcopalians begin wrestling today in Dallas with the issue of homosexuality and its role in the church. "The angry traditionalists have drawn a line in the sand," said David Steinmetz, professor of Christian history at Duke University Divinity School. ... Full story

A PREGNANT MOTHER'S DIET MAY TURN THE GENES AROUND New York Times, Oct. 7 -- Wth the help of some fat yellow mice, scientists at Duke have discovered exactly how a mother's diet can permanently alter the functioning of genes in her offspring without changing the genes themselves. ... Full story

DUKE AND PRINCETON WILL SPEND MORE TO MAKE FEMALE PROFESSORS HAPPY Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 10 -- In response to recommendations from their own professors, Duke and Princeton Universities have each pledged to spend millions of dollars to make their campuses better places for female faculty members. ...Full story

DUKE RESEARCHER SAYS LOW-NICOTINE CIGARETTES MAY HELP QUITTERS Miami Herald, Oct. 6 -- A Duke University nicotine researcher's preliminary study suggests a renegade cigarette company's no-nicotine smoke deserves more attention as a tool to help quit the habit. ...Full story

IN DEPTH: THE NEXT BIG CHILL Scientific American, Oct. 6 -- Several research groups, including one led by Duke physics professor John E. Thomas, are in a race to re-create a new state of matter in the laboratory in microscopic specks of ultracold gas. ... Full story

OP-ED: TROOPS NOT FOR WAR BUT PEACE Korea Times, Oct. 6 -- Jang Sung-Min, a former member of the South Korean National Assembly's Unification and Foreign Affairs-Trade Committee and a visiting scholar at the Center for International Studies at Duke, comments on how Americans are viewing issues related to South Korea and Iraq. ... Full story

EDITORIAL: FIGHTING DISEASE, TERROR (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Oct. 6 -- Last week, Duke University Medical Center received an impressive $12 million federal biodefense grant. The medical center should be proud to be entrusted with missions that are so critical to national safety. ...Full story

YOUNG AND GAY (Raleigh) News & Observer, Oct. 7 -- Gay and lesbian young people, including two Duke students, talk about their experiences, what they consider successes and frustrations and how they see their future. ... Full story

DUKE, COUNTY TEAM UP TO TACKLE OBESITY (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Oct. 7 -- As a generation grows up "supersizing" its fast-food meals, Durham County and Duke University Health System are teaming up to prevent obesity, starting with Durham's school children. ...Full story

CANCER PATIENTS GET CONFIDENCE ON BASKETBALL COURT (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Oct. 6 -- A unique marriage of world-class medicine and world-class basketball in the Durham area has produced offspring. Hoop Dreams Basketball Academy was born this summer as the dream "baby" of former Durham Academy basketball coach Mike Zeillmann, with some special "treatment" by renowned Duke neuro-oncologist Henry Friedman. ...Full story

DURHAM ENDURES (Salt Lake City) Deseret News, Oct. 4 -- Utah Supreme Court Chief justice Christine Durham (Duke Law '71) rules that law and family are her top priorities. ...Full story