Sep - Oct 2011 Issue

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 The Duke Alumni Association (DAA) and the Annual Fund have bestowed Charles A. Dukes Awards on five alumni for outstanding volunteer service to the university. The awards, named for the late Dukes ’29, director of the alumni affairs office from 1944 to 1963, honor individuals who reflect his dedication to the university.

 

 It’s easy to make organ markets look nasty. The prospect of the poor literally selling their bodies to the rich makes us recoil in disgust. But while the act of donating an organ is accepted as good, it is not without ethical questions. We may wish for a bright line between selfless gifts and selfish markets, but we constantly cross it in both directions.

 Sometimes the magazine finds itself covering familiar campus themes with a fresh perspective. That’s true with this issue’s cover story, by associate editor Bridget Booher, which looks at the state of the arts at Duke. As it happens, that same theme, explored by longtime associate editor Sam Hull, was the cover story for the debut issue of Duke Magazine, May-June 1984.

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Out and about: Members of the Explorers Club on their February 27, 1932, jaunt.

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 Cameron Indoor Stadium is famously cramped, hot, and humid. Yet Louise Meintjes says the Cameron experience would be completely different without its one-of-a-kind sound.

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 Still Laughing • Nixon Lives On • Football's Failings • Labor Lessons • Drilling for Answers • KudosStill Laughing

 Building morale: United War Work Campaign scrapbook.

  

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 Everywhere you look: Inset, re-creation of medieval church from course that combines humanities research

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 A naggingly sluggish economy apparently isn’t deterring alumni from supporting their alma mater.

 Blair Sheppard, dean of the Fuqua School of Business since 2007, has accepted a new role in fundraising and business development for Duke Kunshan University, a partner campus in China set to open next year.

 

Randall Kramer, professor of environmental economics and global health, has been appointed deputy director of the Duke Global Health Institute.Richard G.

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 Duke trustee emerita Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke ’67, one of the first five African-American undergraduate students to matriculate at Duke and a professor at the University of the District of Co

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 Blazing Internet speeds can mean more than just smooth downloading. Network improvements can drive economic growth and stimulate a new generation of innovations addressing critical needs such as health care and education, proponents say.

 Love Mom, 2011, Beverly McIver, American. Oil on canvas. 36 x 36 inches.

 Chris Hildreth

A fine example of late medieval sculpture from the Brummer Collection of Medieval Art, this figure was once part of a large altar piece that was likely in a liturgical space.