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Duke in the News: Dec. 7, 2005

Invasion of the iPod People | Duke, UNC Get $1.65M GSK Grant | The Laws of War: 'Treat Them With Humanity,' and more

 

INVASION OF THE iPOD PEOPLE Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus, Dec. 6 -- Duke has discovered that iPods are a hit in class. A year after the university gave all freshman students the little white music players, the number of courses incorporating iPods has doubled. ... Full story --Also, Inside Higher Ed: iPod Use Grows at Duke ... Full story (Durham) Herald-Sun: iPods Making Inroads at Duke ... Full story Duke Chronicle: 1,200 Undergrads to Use iPods in Spring ... Full story Business Today: Becoming Pod People -- Can iPods Change the Way We Learn? (Article not available online; faxed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Student Life: iPods in School -- Portable Device Revolutionizing the Classroom? ... Full story

DUKE, UNC GET $1.65M GSK GRANT Herald-Sun, Dec. 7 -- A $1.65 million grant from a foundation linked to GlaxoSmithKline is to jump-start a three-year collaboration between the Duke and UNC health systems to target improved hospital patient safety, reduced race-based health disparities and better handling of mental illness and HIV -- locally and globally. ... Full story

THE LAWS OF WAR: 'TREAT THEM WITH HUMANITY' NPR.org, Dec. 6 -- Scott Silliman, a military law expert at Duke, discusses how policies evolved for the humane treatment of prisoners and a recent effort to close a loophole in the Torture Act. ... Full story

EDITORIAL: BIG BUCKS FOR DUKE AID Herald-Sun, Dec. 6 -- Duke President Richard Brodhead has identified beefing up the endowment for financial aid as one of his priorities, and the newspaper says that's good news for both Duke students and the nation. ... Full story --Also, Duke Chronicle: Guest Column -- Affording Opportunity (by Duke President Richard Brodhead) ... Full story

MULTITUDES EXPLORE FACETS OF RELIGION Dallas Morning News, Dec. 3 -- At a recent meeting of religion scholars, Teresa Berger, a Catholic theologian from Duke, noted the unexpected religiosity of modern culture. Full story

LOVE HURTS ABC-TV's Good Morning America, Dec. 6 -- Dr. Redford Williams, a Duke professor of behavioral psychiatry, discusses a new study suggesting that couples who argue may not only be hurting their marriage, but could be putting their health on the line. (Transcript not available online; e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.)

NYSE SET FOR NEW ERA AFTER TAKEOVER VOTE The Washington Post, Reuters, Dec. 6 -- James Cox, professor of corporate and securities law at Duke, comments on the deal struck Tuesday by New York Stock Exchange members that turns the Exchange into a for-profit, publicly traded company. (See second page.) Full story

OFF THE SIDELINES American Journalism Review, December/January 2006 -- Susan E. Tifft, a public policy and journalism professor at Duke, discusses the journalist's role in light of coverage of Hurricane Katrina. ... Full story

MILITARY CAMPUS BAN FACING COURT HIT? Herald-Sun, Dec. 7 -- The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to rule against colleges that want to limit military recruiting on campus to protest the Pentagon's policy on gays. Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, among the plaintiffs in the case, comments. ... Full story --Also, Harvard Crimson: Future of Campus Military Recruiting Hangs in Balance at High Court (Duke law professor Walter E. Dellinger III) ... Full story

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FEMINISM? (Raleigh) News & Observer, Dec. 4 -- Donna Lisker, director of the Duke Women's Center, and Rachel McLaughlin, a Baldwin Scholar at Duke, assess progress toward women's equality. ... Full story

AMERICANS SWALLOW HURRICANE ANXIETY TO BUILD COAST TO COAST (Toronto) National Post, Dec. 4 -- Orrin Pilkey, a coastal geologist at Duke, comments on coastal construction, which is still booming in most places in the U.S. despite predictions of an intensified storm cycle for years more. (Canadian Press story also appeared on MSNBC, in the Detroit News and more than 56 news sources.) ... Full story

MEDICATIONS KEEP HEART-FAILURE PATIENTS ALIVE Forbes, HealthDay News, Dec. 6 -- Heart failure patients who adhered to their medications reduced their risk of death by almost 50 percent, even when the medication was a placebo, a new Duke study found. ... Full story

NOTA BENE: THE RED RIVIERA The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 2 -- Kristen Ghodsee, the author of "The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea" from Duke University Press, "brings a sharp eye to post-Communist change." ... Full story