Duke in the News: Aug. 25, 2005

DUKE'S INCOMING CLASS TOTALS 1,728, THE LARGEST IN SCHOOL'S HISTORY (Durham) Herald-Sun, Aug. 25 -- Duke's largest-ever freshman class reflects, in part, planned growth by 50 students a year in the Pratt School of Engineering. ... Full story --Also, News 14 Carolina: Duke Freshmen Move In ... Full story

SUPREME COURT NOMINEE ROBERTS SHOWED EARLY INTEREST IN CONSERVATISM Boston Globe, AP, Aug. 25 -- Duke history professor Sydney Nathans, whose book "Daniel Webster and Jacksonian Democracy" served as a source for a student essay by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, said the Harvard undergraduate appeared to be "wrestling with the role and effectiveness of conservatives in society." ... Full story --Also, The (Madison, Wis.) Capital Times: Column -- Roberts Is No Friend of Working People (Duke law professor Catherine Fisk) ... Full story

WHEN HURRICANES MAKE LANDFALL CNN Newsnight, Aug. 24 -- Duke coastal geologists Orrin Pilkey and Andy Coburn point out danger zones on hurricane-prone Topsail Island. ... Full story --Also, (Durham) Independent Weekly: We're Killing Our Beaches (Pilkey) ... Full story

RESEARCHERS STUDY POSSIBLE PEANUT ALLERGY VACCINE (Washington, D.C.) WRC-TV NBC 4 -- Duke doctor Wesley Burks, who is part of a national food allergy research consortium that has been developing a peanut allergy vaccine, talks about upcoming research trials. ... Full story

AGE-OLD CURES, LIKE THE MAGGOT, GET U.S. HEARING New York Times, Aug. 25 -- Dr. L. Scott Levin, a Duke University hand surgeon, uses leeches to buy time for the body to create its own veinous attachments. ... Full story

THE FUTURE OF THE BODY Popular Science, September 2005 -- Dr. Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, director of Duke's Center for Genomic Medicine, say that getting the science right is just one hurdle to making gene-based predictive tests part of the standard physical. ... Full story

DUKE HIRES MEDICAL MONITORING GROUP (Durham) ABC 11 News, Aug. 24 -- Duke University Health System will hire an outside clinical research organization to monitor the long-term effects on patients exposed to hydraulic fluid. ... Full story --Also, WRAL.com: Duke Health to Hire Outside Firm to Track Patients Affected by Medical Mix-Up ... Full story Dukehealth.org: Hydraulic Fluid Facts ... Website

NEW RELEVANCE FOR WOMEN'S COLLEGES University Business, August 2005 -- The presidents of women's colleges have taken note of Duke's Women's Initiative, which documented the pressures on women undergraduates. Full story

T-SHIRT QUILTS MAKES A GOOD GIFT FOR STUDENTS AT COLLEGE St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Aug. 24 -- A creative fabric shop employee puts a little bit of Duke on display in Creve Coeur, Missouri. ... Full story

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE American Scientist, Sept/Oct. 2005 -- Henry Petroski, a professor of civil engineering and history at Duke, traces the evolution of slide projectors from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. (Link for Duke computer users; e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Full story/Duke users

CHURCHES SEEKING MARKETING-SAVVY BREED OF PASTOR The Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 19 -- Jackson Carroll, a professor emeritus of religion and society at Duke, comments on a new wave of church marketing. ... Full story

ON THE AIR On WUNC Radio's "The State of Things," documentary filmmaker Nina Gilden Seavey talks Thursday about the 77 million baby boomers set to retire between now and 2035. Seavey's film, "The Open Road: America Looks at Aging," will be shown at the Duke University Institute for Learning in Retirement on Thursday. ... Details