May - Jun 2008 Issue

R. Alison Adcock, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science; Vincent Conitzer, assistant professor of computer science and economics; Katherine Franz, assistant professor of chemistry; and Mauro Maggioni, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, are among 118 scholars recently named Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Thanks to electronic communications, the world, potentially, has become an extended classroom.

I have two job offers. One would be a lateral move to a company with great name recognition. The other would be a big promotion in a start-up with high growth potential. If I go to the smaller company, will the lack of brand recognition hurt me in applying for future positions?

Doctor's orders: Computer simulation helps train medical residents. © 3DiTeams

Survey says: Students learning to use a surveyor's transi

Stu Rossner

Coast to coast: Katsouleas comes East. Courtesy University of Southern California

 

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The board of trustees has approved tuition increases for next year. Tuition for undergraduate students enrolled in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering for the 2008-09 academic year will be $36,065, up 5 percent from $34,335 in the current year. The total cost to attend Duke, including room and board, will be $47,985, an increase of 4.8 percent from 2007-08.

The Duke student body contains future CEOs, consultants, doctors, and lawyers-and perhaps the next famous stuntman or gourmet baker. The Fannie Mitchell Career Conference, held in late January, exposed students to a wide spectrum of options, from preprofessional vocations to those less commonly known.

 In February, the board of trustees approved a resolution prohibiting Duke from making direct investment in companies engaged in business with the government of Sudan.The action followed the recommendation of the President's Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility (ACIR) and President Richard H. Brodhead. The university currently has no direct investments in companies working with the government of Sudan.

 Chris Hildreth

 

Christina Asko

Transformation: Women greeting Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg.

Dale Purves is not musical by nature. He's been trying to play the guitar for forty years-with limited success. He has no formal training and, if presented with a sheet of music, can't tell an F-sharp from a B-flat.

 When visitors stroll through the Nasher Museum of Art's first blockbuster exhibition,"El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III," this fall, they'll see exquisitely rendered still lifes, opulent portraits of royalty, and stirring religious images, all produced in Spain during the early part of the seventeenth century.

 In the early 1960s, as most students at Duke Medical School learned about anatomy, and some of them free love, Ron Paul delved into Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek, reading their paeans to the then-unfashionable free market. By 1971, Paul, who received his M.D.

 Dan Ariely is interested in your Social Security number. Purely for research purposes.

Jay Malin Photos

In the fall of 2006, theater-studies majors Sarah Ellis and Julia Robertson participated in the Duke in New York program. They attended concerts and shows regularly and worked as interns for the New York Musical Theater Festival and Jim Carnahan Casting, respectively.Partly for fun and partly for a class project, the two decided to write their own musical titled, appropriately, Intern: The Musical.

    Jerry Agee  

Speak, Memory of … (Five-Needle Pine) series, 2005, by Hong Lei, China.

Schoenfeld: new communications strategist. Neil Brake

High expectations: Alvin Ailey Dance Company returns to ADF. Eduardo Patino

  Megan Morr  

Ancient lessons for

The Pratt School of Engineering and the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences have joined forces to establish the Gendell Center for Engineering, Energy, and the Environment.

Officials at Duke and other top universities are warning that several years of essentially flat budgets for the National Institutes of Health are stifling the research careers-and the potential discoveries-of a generation of young biomedical researchers.

Future view: Development along Camp

Sir Edward Burne-Jones / The Bridgeman Art Library

Dear Fath

Jenn Kennedy

In the spring of 2006, Duke researcher Laura Smart Richman and graduate student Charles Jonassaint were working on a pilot study measuring people's physiological reaction to stress.One day, Jonassaint A.M. '06 came into Richman's office and sank into a chair."The study isn't working anymore," he said."What do you mean?" Richman asked.

 

Shades of blue: Duke fans wore ribbons to honor UNC's slain student body president.

 

Holley: acknowledging his eponymous honor. Jon Gardiner

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