Sep - Oct 2006 Issue

Silvia Ferrari, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Jonathan Mattingly, associate professor of mathematics; and Tannishtha Reya, assistant professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, were among fifty-six researchers who received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at a ceremony at the White House in July.

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With the help of local restaurateurs Maggie Radzwiller '77 and Gary Wein '71, Duke Magazine took readers on a tour of the campus' dining options in the spring of 2000.

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Zoë Kontes

Four new members were welcomed this summer to Duke's board of trustees. Brandon J. Goodwin '06 of DeRidder, Louisiana; Thomas M. Gorrie of Pennington, New Jersey; Janet Hill of Great Falls, Virginia; and P. Justin Klein '99, M.D. '06 of Baltimore, Maryland, began their terms on the thirty-seven-member governing body on July 1.

Getting goosebumps: Wynkoop, with choir, in Carnegie. Photos © 2006 Frank Fournier

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When exploring the outdoors, many children are taught the mantra, "leaves of three, let it be"--referring, of course, to poison ivy. With climate change, that caveat could become even more important.

Calculating extinction: endangered species such as Asia's Red-crowned Crane are threatened by human activities Stuart Pimm

This summer, on his first international trip since coming to Duke, President Richard H. Brodhead spent two weeks in Asia, visiting alumni and students and promoting collaboration with higher-education leaders from Hong Kong to Tokyo.

Art in motion: The Rape o

Views from Lacrosse ParentsDuke University is a huge source of pride in our family. I went to Duke and have a son, Robert, who graduated in 2004, and a daughter, Lane, a past member of the women’s lacrosse team, who graduated in 2005.

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Barton Haynes, Frederic M. Hanes Professor of medicine and immunology, has been selected to lead the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), a consortium of universities and academic medical centers established in July by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The center's goal will be to solve major problems in HIV vaccine development and design.

I confess to not recalling book titles, authors, and sometimes which books I've read. Patrick Süskind calls this phenomenon "a great forgetting" in a brilliant essay, "Amnesia in Litteris: the books I have read (I think)," that appeared in Harper's a decade ago. His ecstasy at discovering a marvelous book in his personal library with intelligent comments in the margins gives way to a shock of recognition: "As I lower the pen to scribble my 'Very good!' in the margins, I find a 'Very good!' already written there ...

 

Shibuya Station, Tokyo: Every day, dusk gives way to a riot of color lighting up whole façades of high-rise buildings filled with department stores, funky boutiques, hair salons, noodle shops, theme-dècor bars, and restaurants. School kids, young adults, and plain-suited "salary men" (office workers) spill out of trains and buses, meet up with friends and fan out into the urban playground of the Japanese capital. For sheer urban energy, there is nothing like Shibuya anywhere in the world.

It was a spectacle--some self-generated, some audience-generated--when David Horowitz, a New Left agitator in the 1960s turned conservative social activist in more recent decades, visited Duke last spring. "I have in my hand here a book," he told a Page Auditorium crowd, making a wry reference to the famous line spoken by Senator Joseph McCarthy: "I have here in my hand a list of fifty-seven people that were known...as being members of the Communist Party." The book's title, Horowitz went on, is The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics, a roster that includes two from Duke.

Par for the course: Sparks and co-host Cellini, right, discuss the sa

Michael H. Merson, an internationally recognized expert in the study of HIV/AIDS and the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of public health at Yale University, has been named director of Duke's newly created Global Health Institute.The institute, which will incorporate several fields, aims to promote interdisciplinary education, research, and delivery of care to address health gaps between the poor and the affluent.

An anguished youth crouches, foot upraised, trying to remove a thorn using a grotesquely oversized implement. His expressively contorted posture exemplifies a medieval adaptation of a Classical sculptural subject, the spinario or "thornpuller."

George Diebold Photography

Duke Medical Center surgeons have developed a simple scoring system based on five patient characteristics that can predict which candidates for gastric bypass surgery would have the highest risk of dying. Gastric bypass surgery, a weight-loss-inducing surgery for people who are morbidly obese, involves stapling off a large portion of the patient's stomach.

Instrument as voice: the music of Li, left, Lord, and Bishop melds jazz, Latin, rock, and pop. Megan Morr

McLendon: master recruiter. Les ToddMcLendon: master recruiter.

Megan Morr

Proven winner: over twenty-one years, Danowski's Hofstra teams comp

Under one roof: new School of Nursing building. Les Todd

Labors of love: Sally and Russell Robin

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Latinos bring negative stereotypes about black Americans to the U.S. when they immigrate and identify more with whites than blacks, a study of the changing political dynamics in the South finds.The research also found that living in the same neighborhoods with black Americans seems to reinforce, rather than reduce, the negative stereotypes Latino immigrants have of blacks, says Paula D. McClain, professor of political science and the study's lead author.

  The Interpreter By Alice Kaplan. Free Press, 2005. 240 pages. $25.

Duke has agreed to deposit up to $5 million in the Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU) over the next five years. The investment will guarantee affordable financial services for low-income individuals in Durham who find it difficult to obtain loans and mortgages through conventional lending sources because they lack credit history.

I've just been told I won't be hired for the sales and marketing position that I really wanted. When I asked the hiring manager why she didn't hire me, she told me she didn't think I was interested enough in the position. But it was my ideal job. Is there anything I can do?Before considering strategies to retrieve this lost opportunity, or find a different "ideal" job, it's worth figuring out what just happened.

Mission immersion: Strasburger eager to explore Duke's offerings.

There's an interestingly counterintuitive assumption behind the cover story: that American popular culture is no longer uncontested.