Duke in the News: Sept. 12, 2006
Duke Has Service for 9/11 Victims | Here Come Science's Best and Brightest: The 'Brilliant 10' | Duke Athletes, Coaches Stress Need for 'Excellence', and more…
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
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DUKE HAS SERVICE FOR 9/11 VICTIMS
(Durham) Herald-Sun, Sept. 12 -- Duke students held a memorial service Monday on Duke Plaza, adjacent to Duke Chapel, to remember the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. ... Full story
--Also, Duke Chronicle: Duke Remembers ... Full story
(Raleigh) NBC 17 News: America Post 9/11 (coverage of class taught by David H. Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill; video not available online; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.)
Duke News: Duke Marks Fifth Anniversary of September 11 Attacks ... Full story
Die Zeit: A Legacy of Wasted Chances (translation of commentary by Duke law professor Jedediah Purdy) ... Full story
VOA: U.S. Politically Divided Five Years Post-9/11 (Duke political scientist David Rohde) ... Full story
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Op-Ed -- Are We Living on Borrowed Time? (Schanzer) ... Full story
(Germany) Deutsche Welle Radio: Daily Life Hasn't Changed for Americans Since Sept. 11 (Schanzer) ... Full story
Detroit Free Press: Column -- Never-Ending War Strategy (Schanzer) ... Full story
HERE COME SCIENCE'S BEST AND BRIGHTEST: THE 'BRILLIANT 10'
USA Today, Sept. 12 -- Animal linguistics researcher Erich Jarvis, a neurobiologist at Duke, is one of the "Brilliant 10" scientists and researchers identified in October's Popular Science. ... Full story
DUKE ATHLETES, COACHES GATHER AND STRESS NEED FOR 'EXCELLENCE'
Herald-Sun, Sept. 12 -- The entire Duke athletics department – from veteran coaches and administrators to first-year athletes -- came together under one roof Monday to reaffirm their beliefs overall and their belief in each other. ... Full story
--Also, (Raleigh) WRAL-TV: Ex-Duke Standouts Push Behavior Standards for Student-Athletes ... Full story
AS HOMEWORK GROWS, SO DO ARGUMENTS AGAINST IT
The Washington Post, Sept. 12 -- The nation's best-known researcher on homework has taken a new look at the subject, and Duke professor Harris Cooper has a few surprising things to say. ... Full story
DUKE RESEARCH LAB CATCHES FIRE
Herald-Sun, Sept. 12 -- Access to a Duke research lab will be restricted through this morning while the university works to ensure compounds with low levels of radioactive materials were not released in an early morning fire Monday. ... Full story
--Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: Radioactivity Checks on Tap After Duke Fire ... Full story
Duke News: Fire Damages Research Lab on Duke Campus ... Full story
EXERCISE = WEIGHT LOSS, EXCEPT WHEN IT DOESN’T
The New York Times, Sept. 12 -- How can you accurately calculate the caloric value of various activities? Duke's Ralph La Forge has compiled an analysis that will help. ... Full story
COMMENTARY: SUSAN TIFFT'S WISH LIST FOR THE 'EVENING NEWS'
CBS News, Sept. 1 -- Susan Tifft, a professor at Duke's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and a veteran journalist, lays out a few of her suggestions for the "Evening News with Katie Couric." ... Full story
NEW ON THE JOB: ROOKIE FLUBS
BusinessWeek, Sept. 18 -- Sheila Curran, the executive director of Duke's Career Center and co-author of the recently released "Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads," identifies some land mines for new hires. ... Full story
LARGER THAN LIFE
News & Observer, Sept. 10 -- Mark Anthony Neal, an author and associate professor of black popular culture in Duke's African and African-American studies program, remembers Tupac Shakur's "flair for the dramatic." ... Full story
GOOD NEWS FROM THE 'GARDEN OF EDEN'
New Scientist, Sept. 9 -- "We are crying out to keep international pressure up or the restoration of the [Iraqi] marshes will fail," says Duke's Curtis Richardson. ... Full story
ON THE AIR
Duke law professor Madeline Morris, director of the Guantanamo Defense Clinic, and law student Christopher Murray will be guests on "The State of Things" Tuesday, talking about some Duke students’ work assisting the military lawyers charged with defending detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Listen to a rebroadcast at 9 p.m. ET on 91.5 WUNC-FM or later to archived web audio. http://wunc.org/tsot
Duke pediatrician Dr. Danny Benjamin is scheduled to be featured in a story Wednesday on NPR's Morning Edition about efforts to have pharmaceutical companies publish the results of their drug trials involving children. Details
Duke conservation biologist Stuart Pimm will be the guest Wednesday on Carrboro's 103.5 WCOM-FM program In Vivo, talking about his species extinction research. Listen live at 11 a.m. ET or later to archived web audio. ... Details
