Duke in the News: Jan. 22, 2003
Duke Gets $13.5M Endowment Gift | Study Highlights Dangers of Pills Being Given to Departing Troops | Officials Concerned About Everglades | Film Stars Line Up, and more...
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
DUKE GETS $13.5M ENDOWMENT GIFT
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Jan. 22 -- Duke University will be the
beneficiary of $13.5 million in gifts from The Duke Endowment of
Charlotte over the next year. The millions will go toward boosting
research and teaching in science and engineering, as well as to
restoring the Aeolian Organ in Duke Chapel and helping the
university carry out its $2 billion
campaign. ...Full
story
STUDY HIGHLIGHTS DANGERS OF PILLS BEING GIVEN TO
DEPARTING TROOPS
The (London) Guardian, Jan. 22 -- A cocktail of chemicals
given to protect Gulf war soldiers in 1991 -- and which are being
used in the current deployment plans -- could explain veterans'
complaints about sexual problems and infertility, according to a
new Duke University study. ...
Full story
OFFICIALS CONCERNED ABOUT EVERGLADES
UPI, Jan. 21 -- Farm bureau officials in Florida want the U.S.
government to base new phosphorus standards for water flowing to
the Everglades on scientific studies by Duke University. ...Full
story
FILM STARS LINE UP FOR WEST END PREMIÈE OF DORFMAN'S
SEQUEL
The (London) Independent, Jan. 18 -- Chilean playwright and Duke
University literature professor Ariel Dorfman has written a sequel
to his award-winning drama "Death and the Maiden," which will
receive its world premiè in the West End of London this autumn.
...
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TERRIBLE FOOD NO LONGER COLLEGE TRADITION
Vero Beach (Fla.) Press Journal, Jan. 21 -- Schools have had to
spend mightily to attract student diners' dollars. At Duke, a $50
million student village is being discussed. It would feature a new
food hall and movie theater, said Jim Wulforst, director of dining
services. ...
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CULTURAL LOOK AT DEATH
(Southern Pines, N.C.) Pilot, Jan. 20 -- Karla Holloway,
dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Duke University, will
discuss her new book 'Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories'
as featured speaker at the Ragan Writers Series on Jan. 26. ...Full
story
PRO AND CON ON ENVIRONMENT
Philadelphia Daily News, Jan. 19 -- Stuart Pimm, a professor of
ecology at Duke, comments on the Bush administration's
environmental record at midterm. ...Full
story
THREE POSSIBLE SHOOTING SUSPECTS I.D.'d
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Jan. 22 -- Durham police have identified
three possible suspects in Monday morning's shooting outside the
Duke University Hospital emergency room. ...Full
story
--Also, Herald-Sun: Editorial: Resolved: Let's Get the Gangs
Out
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story
