Duke in the News: Oct. 30, 2006

PLENSA MOVES PAST RALEIGH, LIGHTS UP DUKE CAMPUS

WRAL-TV, Oct. 29 -- World-renowned artist Juame Plensa's tattoo sculpture, which glows in different colors, will be on display in the new West Campus Plaza until next May, and Plensa was on campus Sunday to celebrate it. ... Full story --Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: Plensa Gives His View of Fiasco ... Full story (Durham) Independent Weekly: The Return of Jaume Plensa ... Full story

BUSINESSES SEEK PROTECTION ON LEGAL FRONT The New York Times, Oct. 29 -- Duke law professor James Cox criticizes proposals to scale back provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the landmark post-Enron legislation, calling them unnecessary and "an escalation of the culture war against regulation." ... Full story --Also, Wall Street Journal's Law Blog: As the Regulatory Pendulum Swings . . . Full story

IT'S A BRAND-YOU WORLD Time, Nov. 6 -- Mark Leary, a social psychology professor at Duke, comments on the growing field of personal-brand consultants, who help people pitch themselves in the job market and the dating arena. ... Full story

'GO AHEAD, PUT MARKS ON ME' ABC News' Good Morning America, Oct. 30 -- The second dancer in the Duke lacrosse case said in a recent interview that the accuser told her to "go ahead, put marks on me" after the alleged attack. (with video) ... Full story --Also, News & Observer: DA -- I Haven't Heard Accuser's Account ... Full story News & Observer: Video May Aid in Players' Defense ... Full story (Durham) Herald-Sun: The DA Race of the Century Has Its Finish Line in Sight ... Full story News & Observer: Column -- Turning the Tide in Durham ... Full story Duke News: Duke and Men's Lacrosse (special website with background information) ... Full story

PROFILE: SONG AND DANCE MAN Smithsonian, November 2006 -- Duke neurobiologist Erich Jarvis' studies of how birds learn to sing are forging a new understanding of the human brain. (Article not available online; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.)

INVISIBILITY CLOAKING DEVICE CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks, Oct. 28 -- Working with metamaterials, David Shurig and his colleagues at Duke have created a device that can bend microwaves around a cylinder and make it, and anything inside it, invisible to microwave detectors. ... Full story

PRESENT TECHNOLOGY GIVES CLEARER VIEW OF CITY'S PAST Durham News, Oct. 28 -- A window to Durham's past opened this week. Conceived by Duke historian Trudi Abel, it's at digitaldurham.duke.edu. ... Full story

ALL SAINTS' DAY OBSERVED IN DIFFERENT WAYS Herald-Sun, Oct. 28 -- Duke Divinity School Professor Jo Bailey Wells says churches should respond to the secular Halloween holiday by "making a bigger deal of All Saints' Day." ... Full story

ON THE AIR Duke law professor Neil Vidmar is scheduled to be a guest on CNBC's "Power Lunch" at 1:40 p.m. ET today. Vidmar is the principal author of an amicus brief in Philip Morris USA v. Mayola Williams, which comes before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday. While Philip Morris is contesting a huge damage award to the widow of a smoker, Vidmar says juries behave rationally when making punitive damage awards. ... Details Dr. Philip Rosoff, a professor of pediatric oncology at Duke University Medical Center, will be a guest today on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," talking about childhood cancer. Listen live at 3 p.m. ET or later to archived web audio. ... Listen