Duke in the News: Aug. 23, 2005

MONKEY SEE, MONKEY GO ALL-IN MSNBC, Aug. 22 -- When given a choice between steady rewards and the chance for more, monkeys will gamble, a new Duke study found. ... Full story

LOOKING FOR CAUSES OF GLAUCOMA IN AFRICA NPR's News & Notes with Ed Gordon, Aug. 22 -- Dr. Rand Allingham, director of glaucoma services at Duke's Eye Center, is taking his research to Ghana in hopes of finding out why glaucoma disproportionately affects blacks, and whether human genes hold the answer. ... Listen

REPORT: DEAD ZONE STUNTS GROWTH OF SHRIMP (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, Aug. 22 -- A sprawling dead zone the size of Connecticut off south Louisiana's coastline is hurting the state's $135 million shrimp fishery by stunting shrimp growth and making them worth less, according to research by a team of Duke biologists. Full story

BOOK REVIEW: LOUNGING IN SUMMER; LABORING ON THE SEA Boston Globe, Aug. 21 -- Duke LGBT Center Director Karen Christel Krahulik's "engaging" social history of Provincetown -- "Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort" -- is reviewed. ... Full story

A TECHIE, ABSOLUTELY, AND MORE New York Times, Aug. 23 -- "Computing has become the third pillar of science, along with theory and experiment," observed Daniel A. Reed, director of the Renaissance Computing Institute, a collaboration of researchers from Duke, UNC and N.C. State University. Full story

EDITORIAL: SERIOUS ABOUT DRINKING (Durham) Herald-Sun, Aug. 23 -- Hiring an extra person to monitor complaints about off-campus parties and follow up on them shows students that Duke is not taking rowdiness and alcohol abuse lightly, the newspaper says. ... Full story

A CHAT WITH... WILLIAM A. SAX (Raleigh) News & Observer, Aug. 21 -- William A. Sax, who helps team up first-year Duke MBA students with local companies, talked about some of the new problems companies face in a high-tech, global market. ... Full story

COLLEGES GET CHEERS, JEERS News & Observer, Aug. 23 -- Duke was ranked 8th nationally in best college newspaper by The Princeton Review's annual survey of 110,000 college students, released today. ... Full story --Also, Duke News: Duke Ties for Fifth in U.S. News Rankings ... Full story

INCOMING DUKE DEAN GETS 'POUNDING' (Raleigh) News & Observer, Aug. 20 -- Pounding the pastor may sound painful, but in keeping with this old tradition among churches in the South, the new dean at Duke Chapel got a pounding last week when he arrived in the Bull City. ... Full story

ON THE AIR Duke music professor Susan Dunn will be featured on Triangle Profiles (Time Warner Cable channel 24), discussing her career in opera as well as her upcoming benefit concert for the John Bartlett Care Fund Endowment supporting the Duke HIV/AIDS clinic. The program can be seen Tuesday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Thursday at 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., and Friday at 8:30 p.m. ... Details