February 3, 2005
First Trip for Rice Sets New Policy Tone | Op-Ed: The Right Court to Judge Darfur Atrocities | Wachovia Grant Aids Duke Projects, and more ...
Thursday, February 3, 2005
AMBITIOUS FIRST TRIP FOR RICE SETS NEW FOREIGN-POLICY
TONE
Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 3 -- Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice is expected to try out the administration's new
foreign-policy tone in her travels this week. Bruce Jentleson,
director of the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy at Duke,
offers analysis. … Full
story
OP-ED: THE RIGHT COURT TO JUDGE DARFUR ATROCITIES
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 3 -- This week's report
by the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur most likely
won't lead to the end of ongoing atrocities in Sudan, says Cesare
P.R. Romano, a visiting professor at Duke Law School. …
Full story
WACHOVIA GRANT AIDS DUKE PROJECTS
(Durham) News & Observer, Feb. 3 -- After-school
programs for some of Durham's most impoverished children and
managers of nonprofit organizations got a $1 million financial
boost from a grant to Duke. …
Full story
--Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: Duke Gets $1M for 2 Programs …
Full
story
(Raleigh) News 14 Carolina: Duke University Receives Funding …
Full story
CONSERVATIONISTS NAME NINE NEW 'BIODIVERSITY
HOTSPOTS'
National Geographic News, Feb. 2 -- Stuart Pimm, a
conservation biologist at Duke, says a nonprofit group's
"biodiversity hotspot" strategy is effective at channeling
conservation efforts. …
Full story
LOCAL CATHOLICS PRAY FOR POPE'S RECOVERY
(Durham) ABC 11 News, Feb. 2 -- Father Joe Vetter, who
ministers to Catholic students at Duke, marvels at the affection
young Catholics show to the elderly pontiff, even if they disagree
with his conservative views. …
Full story
DORFMAN TESTS PLAY AT DUKE
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 3 -- Duke professor
Ariel Dorfman's one-act drama "Purgatorio" will have a short
workshop run this weekend at Duke's Reynolds Theater, before
heading to Broadway. … Full
story
--Also, (Durham) Independent Weekly: The (Really) Final
Exam … Full
story
SCIENTIST’S LENS CRAFTED BY BOTH ASTROPHYSICS AND
FAITH
Science & Theology News, February 2005 -- Arlie Petters
defied the odds: Though he grew up in an isolated Central American
town, he now teaches mathematics and astrophysics at Duke. … Full
story
AND GET A GRIP ON ANGER
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 3 -- Dr. Redford
Williams, director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at
Duke, speaks from experience about men's anger-prone tendencies. …
Full story
BIRD SMARTS
Discovery Channel Canada's Daily Planet Show, Feb. 1 --
Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis explained why bird brains are getting
new respect from scientists. (See sixth video item.) … Full story
'APPRENTICE' COMES CALLING ON TRIANGLE
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 3 -- The Donald's
people are returning to the Triangle. Today they'll meet Duke
alumni and graduate/professional students on campus. …
Full story
SUITS TARGET SIERRA LOGGING PLAN
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 2 -- Nicholas School dean and
ecology professor Norm Christensen says experts are agreed that the
Sierra Nevada needs widespread thinning to lessen the threat of
wildfires. But the focus, he said, "should be on the stuff that
burns" — brush and smaller trees. …
Full story
BOOK REVIEW: BOSNIAN WOMEN SPEAK THEIR PEACE
Boston Herald, Jan. 30 -- Swanee Hunt, founder of Women
Waging Peace, gives voice to 26 Bosnian women in a new book from
Duke University Press. …
Full story
ON THE AIR
Duke neurobiology professor Erich Jarvis leads an international
group of avian experts who are redefining the bird brain. He will
be a guest Thursday evening on NPR's "On Point" program heard on 45
stations around the country, including WUNC-FM 91.5 from 7 p.m. - 9
p.m.
Ariel Dorfman will discuss the world premiere at Duke of his new play, "Purgatorio," in the second half of Friday’s edition of "The State of Things," airing live at 12:30 p.m. on WUNC-FM. Listen live online or later to archived audio. … Full story.
An interview with Duke neurobiologist Robert Deaner is scheduled to air on BBC World Service Friday morning at 10 a.m. GMT. Deaner will talk about the results of a Duke study indicating that monkeys, like people, value information based on its social context. … Full story
