Duke in the News: April 4, 2003
Top Medical Schools - Research | Op-Ed: Winning Back Old Europe | Old Technology Offers New Answers in Crash Probe, and more...
Friday, April 4, 2003
TOP MEDICAL SCHOOLS - RESEARCH
U.S. News & World Report, April 4 -- The Duke University School
of Medicine ranked fourth in the magazine's annual listings of the
nation's top graduate and professional programs. ...
Full story
--Also, Top Business Schools (Fuqua ranked seventh)
Full story
Top 100 Law Schools (Duke ranked 12th)
Full story
Top Engineering Schools (Pratt School ranked 33rd)
Full story
Duke News: Medicine, Fuqua Ranked in U.S. News' Top Ten
Full story
OP-ED: WINNING BACK OLD EUROPE
Weekly Standard, April 3 -- The campaign in Iraq is going well. The
Bush administration should start thinking about a campaign to bring
Germany and France back into the fold, says Peter D. Feaver,
associate professor of political science at Duke University,
director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, and author
of "Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight and Civil-Military Relations"
(Harvard Press). ...
Full story
--Also, Denver Post: All Not Fair in War, So Tactics Get Hard Look
(Feaver, Chris Gelpi comment)
Full story
Boston Globe: Animal Recruits (Henry Petroski comments)
Full story
NPR's Morning Edition: POW's (Scott Silliman comments)
Listen
NPR's Talk of the Nation: What Are the Rules of Combat? (Sillimon
is guest; click on "Listen to Thursday's Show" for audio.)
Listen
OLD TECHNOLOGY OFFERS NEW ANSWERS IN COLUMBIA CRASH
PROBE
Computer World, April 3 -- Henry Petroski, a professor of civil
engineering and history at Duke University, who specializes in
engineering failure analysis, said NASA is fortunate to have had an
old-fashioned magnetic tape recorder on board Columbia. ...
Full story
A CELEBRATION BY THE LIZARDS OF BORDER
RADIO
Chicago Sun Times, April 4 -- The Iguanas have delivered a master
blaster of a record in "Plastic Silver 9 Volt Heart" (Yep Roc) that
marks the pinnacle of a career that has spanned five albums and a
dozen years. Duke music alumnus Derek Huston deploys his saxophone
for the project. ...Full
story
HIGH COURT MAY REVIEW LASER LAB FEUD
(Raleigh) News & Observer, April 4 -- Major universities
worried about money and science want the U.S. Supreme Court to take
sides in the feud between Duke University and a prominent scientist
who says Duke cheated him. ...
Full story
FROM RETICENCE TO LEADERSHIP
Altanta Journal-Constitution, March 24 -- Congressional freshman
and Duke Law alumna Denise Majette asserts herself on Capitol Hill.
...Full
story
FROM CHRISTIAN MINISTER TO MUSLIM
Jamaica Gleaner, March 25 -- An icon in the United States civil
rights movement, the Rev. Dr. Ben Chavis became in 1997 the Rev.
Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammed, after he made the transition from the
church to the mosque. Today, the Duke Divinity alumnus is
president and CEO of the non-profit lobby group the Hip Hop Summit
Action Network, the largest national coalition of hip-hop artists
and record companies. ...
Full story
CLUB SOUNDS ITS SIREN CALL IN DURHAM
News & Observer, April 2 -- The Sirens Lounge, set to
open later this year on Markham Avenue, will be "very San
Francisco," says Lindsay Locke, the club's owner and a 2002 Duke
University graduate. ...
Full story