Jul - Aug 2011 Issue

 

  Duke Photography

  

 

 Ripple effect: Duke Alums Engage provides civic-engagement opportunities to alumni and friends all over the world.

 The study of literature and film offers us an opportunity to learn what it means to be free and responsible individuals and to ask fundamental questions: What is the relationship between freedom and justice? What moral responsibilities does a free individual have toward society? What is the difference between liberty and license?

 Humor magazines, the cover-story subject, illustrate the timeless themes of campus life—from odd food offerings to odd curricular offerings. Sometimes they offer insights into the larger culture.

 

 Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series and HBO's True Blood may appear to have cornered the market on the popular vampire trend, but it's Duke's own Carlos Rojas who's teaching the topic this fall in a course called "Vampir

 

 

  

 Ziggurat Found! • Belabored Critics • Chair-raising Details • Turkey Missing Ziggurat Found!

 Historical record: Company orders document regiment rules.

  There is a small, single-panel cartoon tucked deep inside the first issue of Jabberwocky, a student humor magazine that began publishing in the fall of 1980.

 Music man: Wang plays theme song to Legend of Zelda video game using Ocarinaapp, with speaker

 A new book by Charles Clotfelter ’69, Big-Time Sports in American Universities, sparked the annual Duke Magazine Forum, which was part of Reunions Weekend in April. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of public policy studies and professor of economics and law at Duke, where he has taught since 1979. Other participants were Alan Fishel J.D.

  

 Duke School of Law is launching a master of laws program in judicial studies geared specifically to judges. The university also is launching a new Center for Judicial Studies, which will support academic research on the judiciary.

 

 

 

 Even when covered by health insurance, cancer patients face mounting out-of-pocket expenses that force some to avoid filling prescriptions, skip doctor appointments, and scale back on food and other necessities.

 A patient who can’t decide between two available treatments asks his doctor: “What should I do?” Another patient, torn between the same two treatments, asks: “Doctor, what would you do if you were me?”

In 2005, the Coulter Foundation charged nine universities, including Duke, with accelerating the development of university biomedical engineering projects into commercial pr

 

 

 

 

 

 

Megan Morr

 Avner Vengosh Professor of geochemistry and water quality