Duke in the News: July 7, 2005

THE HIGHER COST OF GIVING: COLLEGES RAISE BAR FOR DONORS Wall Street Journal, July 7 -- Increases in the cost of creating scholarship funds at Duke follow similar moves by a number of prominent schools that say they are raising prices to keep up with the rising demand from their students for financial aid. (Link for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) ... Full story for subscribers

FUTURE SCHOOL (Australia) Seven Network's "Beyond Tomorrow," July 6 -- Duke is running a number of initiatives where faculty and students are called on to better integrate technology in the classroom. ... Details

DUKE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADDS 7 NEW MEMBERS (Durham) Herald-Sun, July 7 -- Among seven new Duke trustees who began their terms July 1 are a former aide to President Jimmy Carter and a Ph.D. student in physics. ... Full story

WHY MAN INSTEAD OF MACHINE? Christian Science Monitor, July 7 -- The rationales for putting humans in space orbit "that have traditionally been invoked are dwindling," says Alex Roland, a former NASA historian, currently a history professor at Duke. ... Full story

STEM CELLS FIX DAMAGED LEG ARTERIES (New York) WABC-TV News, July 5 -- Two patients with a condition called peripheral arterial disease have had an experimental new stem cell therapy at Duke, and both have shown improvement. ... Full story

DUKE SHOWS STERILIZATION PROCESS (Durham) ABC 11 Eyewitness News, July 6 -- Duke University Health System has demonstrated why surgical instruments washed in hydraulic fluid were not dangerous to patients. To avoid another mistake, a log sheet now requires employees to keep track of when detergent is received and that no seals are broken. ... Full story

PHYSICS: GRAIN FREEZE Scientific American, July 2005 -- Duke physicists got surprising results when they shook and stirred granular materials. (Link for subscribers; faxed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Excerpt/full story for subscribers

ON THE AIR Three Duke professors -- political science chair Mike Munger, political scientist Chris Gelpi and theologian Stanley Hauerwas -- joined a discussion Thursday on "The State of Things" call-in show about the London bombings and the fight against terrorism. The program will be rebroadcast at 9 p.m. ET on WUNC-FM 91.5 and later archived on the web. ... Details