Mar - Apr 2005 Issue

 

 Seeking the Multitudes"Empire: Not So Evil," Duke Magazine, November-December 2001

    Joe College Weekend: Hoof 'n' Horn and an ode to argyle

 

 Scans--CAT, MRI, and PET--have become critically important tools for physicians diagnosing disease, as well as scientists studying brain function. However, they yield only snapshots of an organ that, neuroscientists now understand, continually changes.

 

 As she looked forward to her graduation, Lindsay Locke followed a well-worn path for seniors, juggling interviews and offers for entry-level corporate jobs that held out the promise of hard work and big rewards.

 

 

 Grants from The Duke Endowment totaling $14,990,000 will enhance the undergraduate experience and support a number of priority programs and new facilities.

 Innocent-seeming questions from retailers and advertisers can influence consumer behavior in both positive and negative ways, according to a study conducted by researchers at Duke's Fuqua School of Business.

 

 Oldest Graduate Dies Ruby Lee Markham Drakeford '12, Duke's oldest graduate, died December 29, less than a month before her 113th birthday. A retired schoolteacher, she was North Carolina's oldest resident and the tenth-oldest person in the world.

Linking

 

 

 Team work: from left, Calevas, Nelson, and McCoy

 

 

The kind of nightmare that wracks the sleep of reunion organizers actually happened to Lisa Dilts. A few years ago, the tent for the 25th-reunion class was set up on a lawn that held an underground watering system. As is routine, the department in charge of sprinklers was asked to make certain that the system was turned off, so that no unexpected showers would break out on the day of the event.

During fall semester, Duke Magazine and the Office of Student Affairs sponsored the fourth Duke Magazine Campus Forum, featuring a public conversation with Paul Farmer and Tracy Kidder. Farmer '82 is a physician, infectious-disease specialist, and the subject of Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains, which was the summer reading assignment for the Class of 2008.

A few days before fall break in October 2002, sophomore Emily Faulkner* stayed up late studying for a biology midterm in her room in Wannamaker residence hall. Around 5:20 a.m. on October 9, she walked down the hall to the bathroom. She noticed a young man in one of the stalls. She assumed it was someone's boyfriend who was spending the night. It wasn't.

When Bill Neal arrived at Duke as a freshman in the fall of 1967, the closest thing to fine dining in Durham was Hartman's Steak House on Geer Street. Serious gourmets traveled to New York or New Orleans to find a meal worth remembering.

 

 Duke Medical Center researchers have shown that the protein produced by an artificial HIV-1 gene triggers anti-HIV-1 immune responses in animals. Such proteins could serve as a basis for vaccines that protect against many strains.

 

 On to Oxford: Heikamp, left, and OshmyanskyJim Wallace

 Smokers who feel ripped off by the several dollars a pack they pay for cigarettes should realize that they're getting off easy. In a new book, Duke health economists calculate that the real price over a lifetime of smoking amounts to nearly $40 a pack.

 Les Todd.

    Gereffi: "Wal-Mart has taken giantism to a new level" Photo:Jim Wallace  

 Paperwork: filing the deluge of applications.Peter Gebhard/The Chronicle.

 Point of pride: detail from Westbrook Building.Duke Divinity School.

  How important is a cover letter when you're applying for jobs? Sometimes cover letters are neither required, nor desired. At other times, they are a prerequisite for getting your foot in the door. How do you know what's right for your particular situation, or even what's required?

 Week for work: job searches and sources. Les Todd.

 Knight: led Duke during a period of protestsDuke University Archives.

 Grosses Donate $23.5 Million

Namesakes: Michael and Patricia Fitzpatrick

 

 Timothy Profeta, J.D. '97, M.E.M. '97, counsel for the environment to U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, will be the first director of Duke's new Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Officials say that the Nicholas Institute will have a global reach and will marshal the broad resources of the university to help set a national environmental agenda.

 Duke alumni have a growing international presence, which has led to the creation of thirty-eight Duke alumni clubs outside the continental U.S. Here are some examples of recent club events planned for Blue Devils abroad.

 Goodmon: Futrell Award winnerJim Wallace.