Duke in the News: Nov. 5, 2003

COMMISSION AWARDS $7.4 MILLION IN GRANTS TO COMBAT CHILD OBESITY WRAL.com, Nov. 5 -- Technical support and training services for a statewide campaign to address the epidemic of childhood obesity will be provided by Duke University Medical Center's Department of Community and Family Medicine. ...Full story

DIFFERENT GENES PLAY ROLES IN ALZHEIMER'S UPI, Nov. 3 -- A new Duke study indicates the genes that influence the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease may vary over the course of an individual's lifetime. ... Full story --Also, Betterhumans.com: Drug's Brain-Improving Actions Observed in Alzheimer's Sufferers ... Full story

'ON FIRE': THE LANDSCAPE OF BURNING PRAIRIES NPR's Weekend Edition, Nov. 2 -- Landscape photographer Larry Schwarm talks to NPR's Liane Hansen about what inspired him to focus his lens on prairie fires for a new book from Duke University Press. Full story

THE NASHER CENTER, A SHOWCASE FOR SCULPTURE Wall Street Journal, Nov. 4 -- Duke University alumnus Raymond D. Nasher leaves one of the world's great private collections of modern sculpture to the city where he made the fortune that allowed him to collect. (Link for subscribers with online access; full text e-mailed upon request.) ... Full story/subscribers

PRICE'S POWER COMES QUIETLY (Chapel Hill) Daily Tar Heel, Nov. 5 -- Michael Munger, chairman of political science at Duke University, comments on former Duke professor and current Congressman David Price's role in reviewing and amending the nation's wartime budget. ... Full story

MARX, ORGAN DONATIONS CRUSADER (Raleigh) News & Observer, Nov. 5 -- Wendy Marx, a Duke University graduate who co-founded the Washington D.C.- based Wendy Marx Foundation for Organ Donor Awareness, died Oct. 28. She was 36. (Article not available online; full text e-mailed upon request.) --Also, New York Times: Wendy Marx, Liver Patient Who Inspired Organ Donation Group, Dies at 36 Full story (White Plains, N.Y.) Journal News: Rye Brook Organ Donor Activist Dies at 36 Full story

FOR DUI, PRACTICE MAKES FUNNY (Duke) Chronicle, Nov. 4 -- Exercises serve as warm-ups for students in the Duke University Improv troupe, practicing at the Branson Theater, a dark, cozy building tucked away on the outer region of East Campus. ... Full story