Duke in the News: March 21, 2007

ANALYSIS -- CONGRESS SCRUTINIZES ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES' ROLE PBS NewsHour, March 20 -- Walter Dellinger, Duke law school professor and former acting solicitor general under President Clinton, joined a panel analyzing the growing rift between President Bush and Congress over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys and the future of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. (with audio) ... Full story

STUDY: BRAIN TO BLAME FOR SMOKERS' CRAVINGS NBC San Diego, March 20 -- A new study from Duke University blames the human brain for making it difficult for smokers to quit their addiction. ... Full story --Also, UPI: This Is Your Brain on Nicotine ... Full story (Durham) Herald-Sun: Study -- Brain Regions Explain Nicotine Urges ... Full story

NO. 1 DUKE IS TESTED BY TEMPLE The New York Times, AP, March 21 -- Lindsey Harding leads top-seeded Duke into the NCAA Sweet 16 with a 62-52 win over Temple in the second round of the Greensboro Region at Raleigh. ... Full story --Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: Harding to Seek U.S. Squad Spot ... Full story News & Observer: No Denying Coach G Is a Hot Commodity ... Full story

ADMINISTRATORS LOOK FOR STUDENT VOICES ON CCI Duke Chronicle, March 21 -- Following the release of the Campus Culture Initiative report last month, Duke administrators are now busy gauging student opinion before moving to address its suggestions. ... Full story

NO CONTRADICTION IN ENGINEERING GAP DATA Salon, March 20 -- Vivek Wadhwa, executive-in-residence at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, discusses his latest research findings and suggests ways the U.S. can make graduate engineering education more attractive. ... Full story

SLOW TO REACT American Journalism Review, February/March 2007 -- The New York Times should have done a better job following up on the story that a competitor broke about deficiencies at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, says Susan E. Tifft, a professor of journalism and public policy at Duke and co-author of a book on the Times' Ochs-Sulzberger dynasty. ... Full story

MAD HATTER OWNER AIDS LOCAL EFFORT News & Observer, March 20 -- The owner of Mad Hatter's Cafe and Bake Shop in Durham has donated $200,000 to help endow the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership. ... Full story

THE POUND CAKE SPECIALIST News & Observer, March 21 -- Duke doctor Kenneth W. Lyles applies a physician's efficiency to his baking. ... Full story

Q&A: ADDING FUEL TO SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS' SPARK Triangle Business Journal, March 18 -- Paul N. Bloom, the senior research scholar of social entrepreneurship and marketing at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, discusses his work. ... Full story

THE DOCTOR IS IN (LOVE) ON 'BACHELOR' New York Daily News, March 21 -- Navy doctor and Duke alumnus Andy Baldwin comes to an ABC-TV reality show with an impressive resume. ... Full story

HELPING THE MIDDLE EAST'S YOUNG BUSINESSWOMEN CNN, March 20 -- Duke has hosted two groups of young Middle East women who want to forge a career in business. ... Full story

EDITORIAL: KEEPING COLLEGE OPEN TO EVERYONE Herald-Sun, March 21 -- Davidson wasn't the first North Carolina institution of higher education to take innovative steps to make a college education more affordable. Duke and UNC have also made pioneering efforts, the newspaper points out. ... Full story

NEW CAM KEEPS EYE ON PLAZA Duke Chronicle, March 20 -- Duke students walking down the West Campus Plaza these days can't help but notice the new glowing statue, but they might have missed a smaller addition -- the Plaza webcam. ... Full story

ON THE AIR UNC-TV's "North Carolina Now" will feature a report on a new exhibition at Duke, "The Past is Present: Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum," tonight at 7:30 p.m. More than 60 works of art from the ancient Mediterranean world are on view, many of them for the first time, in this exhibition. http://www.unctv.org/ncnow/