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The Week at Duke {in 60 Seconds}: Shakespeare on Finance; Maky the Lemur

Duke University juniors Danny Nolan and Audrey Adu-Appiah deliver a week's worth of campus news in a minute. Subscribe to the podcast.

Duke alumnus John Forlines is combining literary insight and bottom-line analysis. In his economics course “Shakespeare & Financial Markets,” he uses the plays of Shakespeare to teach undergraduates about financial decision-making. As Falstaff put it in "Henry the Fourth," "The better part of valor is discretion!"In their quest for a cancer cure, researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute made a chance discovery -- a molecule necessary for cheaper and greener ways to produce … nylon.Senior leaders have been appointed for Duke Kunshan University in China. Duke Professor Alex Harris is coming out with a new book: "Why Are We Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City."The votes are in. The Duke Lemur Center’s new mascot now has a name. It’s Maky (pronounced Mah-key), which means ring-tailed lemur in the Malagasy language. And, here’s the photo of the week. Actor Jeffrey Blair Cornell, of PlayMakers Repertory Company, recites a seventeenth century poem called “The Garden,” in Duke Gardens.