Duke in the News: Jan. 7, 2003
A Biologist Explores the Minds of Birds that Learn to Sing | Bringing Back the Draft | Duke Tests Smallpox Vaccine, and more...
Tuesday, January 7, 2003
A BIOLOGIST EXPLORES THE MINDS OF BIRDS THAT LEARN TO
SING
New York Times, Jan. 7 -- Dr. Erich D. Jarvis, 37, is recognized
for his groundbreaking research on the brain systems of birds. At
Duke, he said in a recent interview, he found a place with "the
best facilities and the least politics" in an effort to do his
research unimpeded. ...Full
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BRINGING BACK THE DRAFT
NPR's The Connection, Jan. 6 -- Duke political science professor
Peter Feaver joined a discussion about the possible reinstatement
of the military draft and differences between civilian and military
culture. (Audio clip) ...
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DUKE TESTS SMALLPOX VACCINE
News & Observer, Jan. 7 -- Duke University researchers will
test whether adults who received a childhood inoculation can get
new immunity from a diluted dose of the vaccine.
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story
PARENTS' LANDMARK SUIT ASKS FOR $48
MILLION
Associated Press, Jan. 7 -- In a case said to be the first of its
kind in North Carolina, Duke University Hospital lawyers contended
Monday that two parents should not be allowed to make millions of
dollars from the plight of their daughter, now on life support
following surgery that allegedly went wrong. ...
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--Also, (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun: Parents' Landmark Suit Asks for
$48 M
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ACTIVE DUKE FACULTY WIFE DIES
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Jan. 7 -- Susanne Lindlar Walton, 99,
one of the last of the old-style Duke University faculty wives,
died Friday morning at her home on Cranford Road. ...Full
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WHAT THE GOP CAN LEARN FROM THE KKK
CommonDreams.org, Jan. 6 -- Author Osha Gray Davidson compares the
backgrounds of Sen. Trent Lott and C.P. Ellis, a former Klansman
who was elected leader of a union at Duke University that was
eighty percent black. ...Full
story
DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL WILL GET THREE-STORY, $22 MILLION
ADDITION
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Jan. 7 -- A three-story addition to the
Duke Divinity School will go from artists' renderings to reality,
thanks in part to $3.1 million in donations giving to the
university's $2 billion fund-raising campaign. ...Full
story