Nov - Dec 2011 Issue

 Shy virtuoso: Program and ticket stubs from Paderewski’s sold-out—and barely visible— Page Auditorium perfor

 

 

 

 In their house: Vernerey led the Blue Devils to a 62-60 win over UNC in the Dean Dome in February.

 Forty years ago, two pivotal events took place at Duke that continue to shape campus life. The Woman’s College merged with Trinity, and Duke Women’s Athletics was formed.

 Centenarian: Crowell celebrating

 Every November, the Duke Magazine staff meets with our Editorial Advisory Board, a group of accomplished journalists (most of them alumni) from such high-profile media organizations as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and ESPN.

 Call for Nominations for Board of Trustees

 Nearly 3,000 alumni and friends gathered on campus in late September for Homecoming Weekend 2011.

 When Duke Medical Center pediatrician John Moses '78 wanted to understand better the lives of the young parents he saw in his clinic, he turned to a tool he hadn't learned to use in medical school: his camera.

 Collegiate Qui

 

 

 The first genomes to be sequenced revealed something surprising: On a genetic level, we’re not that different from other species—even some very distantly related ones. What makes us human and them not? Biologist Greg Wray is learning that it’s not the genes that matter—it’s the way they are used.Probably the last place you should look for Greg Wray is in his office.

 Classic cover: an old question, still relevant.

 

 IN DECEMBER 1944, amid the snow-crusted mountains of southern Belgium, Wallace Wade happened upon a young infantryman making coffee. Wade, a lieutenant colonel in the Army’s 106th Infantry Division, had been chasing Hitler’s army for seven months, commanding an artillery battalion that had fought the Germans at Normandy and helped force them out of France. But the relentless combat and the encroaching chill of winter were taking a toll.

For a while now, researchers have known that chronic stress really does make your hair turn

 

 

 

 

 

 A sampling of recent visitors to Duke

 More than a pretty shell: Female crabs

 Mind the gap: Churchill holds a cast model of a prehistoric sk

 

 

 

  Gabriel Angel, c. 1990s. Fred Webster, American. Pigment on wood. 10 x 7 x 5 inches.

 

 Jared Lazarus

 Virtual guidance: Monkeys learn to use signals from