Duke in the News: July 19, 2007
Duke Dean Named First Female Provost at Hopkins | Study: Duke Is N.C.'s Most Productive Research University | Facing Rejection Head On, and more!
DUKE UNIVERSITY DEAN NAMED FIRST FEMALE PROVOST AT HOPKINS Baltimore Sun, July 19 -- Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, will be the first female provost at the Johns Hopkins University, officials announced yesterday. ... Full story --Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: Duke Dean Gets Major Leadership Job at Johns Hopkins ... Full story Duke News: Engineering Dean Kristina Johnson to Become Provost at Johns Hopkins University (Johnson's letter to Provost Peter Lange) ... Full story
STUDY: DUKE IS N.C.'S MOST PRODUCTIVE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY WRAL.com, July 18 -- Duke is North Carolina's most productive research university -- as measured by faculty scholarly productivity -- according to a study released Wednesday. ... Full story
FACING REJECTION HEAD ON CNN's Paging Dr. Gupta Blog, July 18 -- Rejection hits us harder than it did our great-grandparents, says Mark Leary, a psychology professor at Duke. ... Full story
OP-ED: WHERE ARE THE INNOVATORS IN HEALTH CARE? Wall Street Journal, July 19 -- "Third parties' lock-hold on reimbursement" punishes health care innovators, like Duke University Medical Center, says Regina E. Herzlinger, a professor at Harvard Business School. (Link for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Full story for subscribers
SNOOZE CONTROL News & Observer, July 19 -- While much remains to be learned about what happens when we sleep, Dr. Xavier Preud'Homme, an assistant professor of internal medicine and psychiatry at the Duke School of Medicine (home to the Duke Sleep Disorders Center), says there's little doubt that a nap -- the right kind of nap -- can be a good thing. ... Fulll story
EDITORIAL: TOP FIRM TO DESIGN NEW DUKE CAMPUS Herald-Sun, July 19 -- "The excitement generated by Duke's new Central Campus ramped up a few notches this week," the newspaper says, with word that the world-renowned architectural firm Pelli Clarke Pelli has been chosen to design the project. ... Full story
DANCE REVIEW: LINES OF SHUFFLING BODIES PULSE WITH LIFE AND HISTORY New York Times, July 19 -- "How Long Brethren?," from 1937, was reconstructed by Dianne McIntyre at the American Dance Festival on the Duke campus. ... Full story
RESEARCH GRANTS AID BIOTECH'S DISCOVERIES Tampa Bay Business Journal, July 17 -- A "biological glue" developed by Duke professors Dr. Dan Kenan and Mark Grinstaff is now the basis for a North Carolina company seeking commercial uses for the technology. ... Full story
SCHOOL STUDENT TO STUDY 'MONKEY BUSINESS' ABROAD (U.K.) icSurreyOnline, July 17 -- School student Charlotte Ingham, 15, is about to go on a Duke adventure. She will spend three weeks studying lemurs. ... Full story
ON THE AIR John Biewen, correspondent and producer of the American RadioWorks documentary series, "The Lock-Up Society," and a teacher at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, will be a guest today on North Carolina Public Radio's "The State of Things," discussing the rapid growth of our country's incarcerated population. Details/listen Mark Anthony Neal, author and associate professor of black popular culture at Duke, will be one of the commentators for a series on NPR's "Tell Me More" exploring "1967: The (Soul) Summer of Love." The series, beginning today, will feature music from and discussion of that summer's creative explosion in soul music. Listen locally from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. weeknights on 90.7 WNCU-FM. Link to archived audio. ... Details/listen Peter Agre, vice chancellor of science and technology at Duke and 2003 winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, will be Bill Friday's guest on this week's North Carolina People, airing on UNC-TV at 9 p.m. Friday, with an encore presentation at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. ... Details