Duke in the News: Feb. 21, 2007

DUKE RECEIVES $10 MILLION FROM GATES FUND FOR FINANCIAL AID Bloomberg News, Feb. 20 -- Duke University received its second contribution in a week from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a $10 million grant for need-based academic scholarships. ... Full story --Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: Duke Gets More Gates Millions for Scholarships ... Full story (Durham) Herald-Sun: Duke Gets $10M to Assist Students ... Full story Duke Chronicle: Gates Gives $10M for Financial Aid ... Full story Duke News: Duke to Receive $10 Million for Its Financial Aid Initiative ... Full story

FED'S BIES SAYS MOST OF MORTGAGE MARKET IS PROBLEM FREE CNBC, Feb. 20 -- Federal Reserve Board Governor Susan Bies, speaking Tuesday at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, said the bulk of the U.S. mortgage market was without bad debt problems. (with video) ... Full story --Also, News & Observer: Feds -- Home Demand Set to Improve ... Full story

GIRLS' PROGRAM FOCUSES ON MATH, ENGINEERING, SCIENCE Herald-Sun, Feb. 20 -- Young girls need to know they can succeed in typically male-dominated fields, says Duke junior Vicki Weston, and she has a plan to teach them that. ... Full story --Also, Herald-Sun: Editorial -- Girls Want to Do Science ... Full story

IN 5-4 RULING, SUPREME COURT CURBS PUNITIVE DAMAGES San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 21 -- Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky comments on what he sees as an "enormous contradiction" in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision on multimillion-dollar verdicts. ... Full story

NEW DETAINEE LAW UPHELD News & Observer, Feb. 21 -- Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, who represents a Guantanamo detainee, says that following an appeals court ruling the question for the Supreme Court will be whether the detainees have the right to challenge their detention through a writ of habeas corpus. ... Full story

DUKE PREPS PLANS FOR LAX TAILGATE Duke Chronicle, Feb. 21 -- With crowds of students and media expected to descend upon Koskinen Stadium for the Duke men's lacrosse season opener Saturday, administrators have distributed guidelines for potential tailgates. ... Full story --Also, Chronicle: Players Plan Tribute for Indicted 3 ... Full story Brown Daily Herald: Brown Recruiting Former Duke Lacrosse Player ... Full story Duke News: Duke and Men's Lacrosse (special website with background information) ... Full story

A LOOK AT HIP-HOP, 'BEYOND BEATS AND RHYMES' NPR's Talk of the Nation, Feb. 20 -- Mark Anthony Neal, professor of black popular culture at Duke, talks about his appearance in a new documentary that examines the impact of the rap music culture on the men who listen and create it. ... Listen --Also, PBS's Independent Lens: Hip-Hop -- Beyond Beats & Rhymes ... Website

HARVARD'S HISTORIC CHOICE Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 23 -- Those who know the new president of Harvard, including Janice A. Radway at Duke, say it would be a mistake to view Drew Gilpin Faust as a professor buried in her scholarship, detached from the rest of university life. ... Full story

BOOK REVIEW: IKE'S SECOND ARMY The Weekly Standard, Feb. 26 -- Arthur Larson, who served as undersecretary of labor in the Eisenhower administration and later directed the Rule of Law Center at Duke, is the subject of a new biography. (Link to preview; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Preview/full story for subscribers

ON THE AIR Duke religion professor Bruce Lawrence, previously scheduled to be a guest today on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," discussing his book on the Koran, will appear instead on March 7 at 3 p.m. ET. ... Website