Duke in the News: Feb. 15, 2006

HOW BABIES DO MATHS AT 7 MONTHS BBC News, Feb. 15 -- Babies have a rudimentary grasp of math long before they can walk or talk, according to new Duke research. ... Full story --Also, Guardian: Column -- Babies That Can Count? Not in My Experience ... Full story CNN: Study -- Babies Know a Little Math ... Full story Earth Times: Babies Can Do the Numbers Before They Walk and Talk ... Full story 2006 COLLEGE ACADEMIC ALL-STARS FIRST TEAM USA Today, Feb. 15 -- Meet Duke students William Hwang and Jacqueline Ou on the first team and Adam Chandler on the second team of the USA Today 2006 College Academic All-Stars. ... Full story --Also, USA Today: Students' Path to Excellence Crosses Oceans, Borders (Jacqueline Ou) Full story

PARKINSON'S DRUGS MAY INCREASE RISK OF PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 15 -- Duke psychiatrist P. Murali Doraiswamy co-authored an analysis that found a link between medicines prescribed to calm tremors of Parkinson's disease and a risk of pathological gambling. (Link for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Full story for subscribers

OP-ED: GENE PROJECT COULD PUT PIECES TOGETHER Dallas Morning News, Feb. 15 -- Susanne B. Haga and Geoffrey S. Ginsburg of the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke write, "The era of genomics brings to mind the goals and impact of the U.S. space program of the 1960s." (Also appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and Durham Herald-Sun.) ... Full story

DUKE IS MENDING TINY HEARTS (Durham) Herald-Sun, Feb. 15 -- Gavin Bailey cavorted Tuesday in the DukeHospital unit where he was once too lethargic even to sit up. Doctors and nurses there have seen him through eight open-heart surgeries that included a heart transplant. ... Full story

LOW-CARB DIET PROMISING FOR WEIGHT LOSS UPI, Feb. 13 -- Duke professor William Yancy, one of the authors of a new study of low-carbohydrate diets, discusses a finding that the diets help people shed pounds more quickly than low-fat regimes. ... Full story

WOMEN'S COLLEGE STARTS ENGINEERING PROGRAM Arab News, Feb. 15 -- Pratt School Dean Kristina Johnson spoke at EffatCollege in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Monday to help launch an electrical and computer-engineering program for female undergraduates. ... Full story COMMENTARY: THE ART OF DOING IT YOURSELF BusinessWeek, Feb. 14 -- You don't have to wait for venture capitalists or angel investors to lend a hand, Pratt School of Engineering executive-in-residence Vivek Wadhwa tells new entrepreneurs. ... Full story

T-SHIRTS MOURN LIVES CUT SHORT (Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 12 -- T-shirts bearing the faces of dead youths are "in-your-face grief," says Karla Holloway, an English professor at Duke and author of "Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories." ... Full story

EDITORIAL: 'EMILYKCENTER' A GIFT TO DURHAM Herald-Sun, Feb. 12 -- Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski hopes the new recreation center named in his mother's memory will have a positive influence on the Durham youngsters who will use it. Full story

ON THE AIR Scott Silliman, executive director at the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at the DukeLawSchool, is a guest on Wednesday's edition of "The State of Things," talking about CIA-led extraordinary rendition. The program also features author and visiting Duke professor Tim Tyson, who tells stories of black history from North Carolina and explains what the stories mean in the context of the struggle for civil rights. Listen to a rebroadcast on WUNC Radio at 9 p.m. ET or later to archived audio. http://wunc.org/tsot/