Duke in the News: Jan. 28, 2003
New Scan May Improve MS Treatment | Op-Ed: Where All Grades are Above Average | Pollution Control Must Include Phosphorus | Super Bowl Ads: Lots of Fumbles | Trombonist's Memoir, and more...
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
NEW SCAN MAY IMPROVE MS TREATMENT
ABCNews.com, Jan. 28 -- To Duke doctors, a new scan that adds 10
minutes to a standard MRI promises to clear up some of the mystery
surrounding multiple sclerosis. ...Full
story
--Also, New York Times: New Scan May Improve MS Treatment
Full
story
OP-ED: WHERE ALL GRADES ARE ABOVE AVERAGE
Washington Post, Jan. 28 -- As grades spiral upward, Duke professor
Stuart Rojstaczer says his job becomes more difficult. ...
Full story
POLLUTION CONTROL MUST INCLUDE PHOSPHORUS
UPI, Jan. 28 -- The push to control upstream nitrogen pollution has
a downside, Duke University researchers say. ...Full
story
--Also, Science Daily: Study Finds Controlling Phosphorus Pollution
In Wetlands More Important Than Believed
Full story
SUPER BOWL ADS: LOTS OF FUMBLES
BusinessWeek.com, Jan. 28 -- The magazine's expert marketing panel,
including Duke marketing professor Julie Edell, reviews which ads
scored and which fell incomplete on Super Bowl night. ...
Full story
TROMBONIST'S MEMOIR COVERS HALF A CENTURY OF MUSICAL
INFLUENCE
NPR's All Things Considered, Jan. 25 -- In an interview
with NPR's Steve Inskeep, trombone star Fred Wesley Jr. recalls the
twists and turns of a long and storied career, which he explores in
a Duke University Press-published autobiography called "Hit Me,
Fred," and subtitled "Recollections of a Sideman." ...
Listen
LINKING ENGINEERING, BIOLOGY
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Jan. 27 -- The National Science
Foundation has awarded Duke University $2.9 million to offer a
unique program designed to help students better understand
relationships between the principles of engineering and biology.
...
Full story
SOME WANT DUKE OUT OF ISRAELI BUSINESS
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Jan. 28 -- A group of Duke students and
professors have joined others around the nation calling on
university administrators to sell off stock of corporations that do
business in Israel. ...Full
story
BOY GETS NEW TRANSPLANT
(Walnut Creek, Calif.) Contra Costa Times, Jan. 26 -- Doctors at
Duke University Medical Center on Friday performed a second
umbilical cord blood transplant on Tommy Bennett, the youngest of
three California siblings who suffer from a fatal genetic condition
known as Sanfilippo syndrome. ...
Full story
DURHAM REGIONAL HOSPITAL'S CEO HEADING FOR SAN DIEGO IN
MARCH
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Jan. 27 -- The man credited with
steering Durham's community hospital past financial icebergs has
been named CEO of the University of California San Diego Medical
Center. ...Full
story
ENTREPRENEURS: GO AHEAD AND FLOSS
(Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Jan. 26 -- Mental Floss magazine, started
by a pair of now 23-year-old Duke University grads who run the
business from Birmingham, Alabama, offers a mix of trivia and
offbeat knowledge, such as "38 Lies Your Mother Told You." ...
Full story
HIGHER MATH, WATERED DOWN
News & Observer, Jan. 27 -- Researchers from N.C. State and
Duke universities are using higher math for a practical purpose:
cleaner drinking water. ...
Full story