Duke Magazine: Mar-Apr 1996

by Dennis Meredith

A Duke sleep scientist helps our bleary-eyed correspondent reform his snoozing techniques and get his quota; that makes one insomniac down, 40 million to go

Color-Blind or Color-Conscious?

by Bill Sasser

Too far or not far enough? The debate over affirmative action may be decades old, but it's taken on a new life as the controversy moves into the political arena and to college campuses

Beyond the Birthing Room

by Bridget Booher

Historian Monica Green uncovers the role of women in medieval science and medicine, challenging long-held assumptions about how knowledge was obtained and distributed in the Middle Ages.

Peripatetic President

by Georgann Eubanks

Paul Hardin: "Going from private to public higher education, you trade a lot of worries about finance and whether tuition is too high for layers and layers of political accountability and bureaucracy"

Rider on the Storm

by John Manuel

When it comes to environmental assaults, the social scientist, conservationist, and Duke Marine Lab professor is as comfortable talking to a single fisherman as he is to state and national policymakers

When View Meets Voice

by Stephen Martin

Rejecting celebrity, conflict, and sensationalism as themes, Double Take magazine is a collaboration between photographer Alex Harris and writer Robert Coles that instead celebrates original and overlooked ideas.