Duke - Summer 2015 https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/issue/summer-2015 en Roommates: How Three Freshmen Share Space https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/roommates-how-three-freshmen-share-space <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Kailey Johnson, Julia Donnell, and Jasmine Hill live in Brown Residence Hall.</p><p><iframe src="//e.issuu.com/embed.html#0/12739191" frameborder="0" width="525" height="672"></iframe></p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-05-08T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, May 8, 2015</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/madeline-taylor" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Madeline Taylor</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/summer-2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Summer 2015</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/Roommatesportrait_0.png" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue Fri, 08 May 2015 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498568 at https://alumni.duke.edu Recently Published by Alumni https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/recently-published-alumni <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><strong>FEATURED BOOK<em><br /></em></strong></p><p><em>My Generation: Collected Nonfiction</em> features thirty-three pieces by <strong>William Styron</strong> ’47, some previously unpublished and several taken from Styron’s papers in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke. Here is why the editor James L.W. West III thinks the author’s work still resonates.</p><p><em>Styron was a public writer—that is to say that he addressed important public issues in both his fiction and nonfiction. Styron read widely and thought carefully before he arrived at positions on race, genocide, warfare, capital punishment, depression, and other social issues. He held to his positions consistently. Certainly these problems haven’t disappeared. Reading Styron’s work now reminds us of where we started and how far we still have to travel.</em></p><p><strong>RECENTLY PUBLISHED</strong><em><br /></em></p><p><em>Pure Sex</em> by <strong>Gordon Dalbey</strong> ’64 and his wife, psychologist Mary Andrews-Dalbey, is an exploration of sexual desire as a spiritual phenomenon.</p><p><em>Daughters, Dads, and the Path Through Grief: Tales from Italian America</em> by <strong>Lorraine Mangione</strong> ’76 and Donna H. DiCello includes stories of fifty Italian-American women who have suffered through the loss of their fathers. It explores the healing process through the perspective of Italian-American culture.</p><p><em>Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness</em> by <strong>Kerry Hannon</strong> ’82 offers techniques to help change old habits and attitudes to make work more enjoyable and engaging.</p><p><em>Inside ISIS: The Brutal Rise of a Terrorist Army</em> by <strong>Benjamin Hall</strong> ’06 is a narrative based on firsthand experience and personal interviews that investigates: Who makes up ISIS? Where did they come from? And how can they be stopped?</p><p><em> Saved for a Purpose: A Journey from Private Virtues to Public Values</em> by <strong>James A. Joseph</strong> is an ethical autobiography that includes insights on moral philosophy and leadership. Joseph is professor emeritus of the practice of public policy.</p><p><em>Four Years in the Mountains of Kurdistan: An Armenian Boy’s Memoir of Survival (1915-1919)</em> is Aram Haigaz’s firsthand account of surviving the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and working as a servant and shepherd among Kurdish tribes for four years. The memoir was translated from Armenian to English by the author’s daughter, <strong>Iris Haigaz Chekenian</strong> A.M. ’51.</p><p><strong>SUMMER TRAVEL READS</strong></p><p>Luca Lipparini, Alaine Jacobs, and Amanda Kelso of the Global Education Office recommend these summer-suitable books.</p><p>Peter Hessling’s <em>River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze</em>: Teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer in the river town of Fuling, Hessling and his fellow Corps member explore a strange new world, but find themselves examined and analyzed with startling clarity as well, proving that travel offers just as much insight into the other as it does into ourselves.</p><p>Ernesto Che Guevara’s <em>The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey</em>: A great motorcycle adventure and a coming-of-age story that allows us to understand the many faces of a painfully beautiful and exploited continent, its contradictions, and its people.</p><p>Tiziano Terzani’s <em>A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East</em>: A year of travels by land gives the author the opportunity to see Asia with different eyes and engage in spiritual and philosophical reflections, and provides the reader with great socioeconomic and historical commentary on the region.</p><p>Tony Cohan’s<em> On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel</em>: An honest look into the lives of American expats who move to San Miguel, Mexico, highlighting the nuances of Mexican culture and traditions that one can only learn through immersion.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-05-04T00:00:00-04:00">Monday, May 4, 2015</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/Summerreadsmain.png" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/elizabeth-van-brocklin" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Elizabeth Van Brocklin</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/summer-2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Summer 2015</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/Booksportrait_0.png" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">And faculty. Plus, a summer reading list</div></div></section> Mon, 04 May 2015 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498569 at https://alumni.duke.edu MOOCs for Duke https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/moocs-duke <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the past five years, MOOCs—massive open online courses—have lived up to at least one part of their name. With hundreds of thousands of people enrolling in the most popular listings on sites like Coursera, MOOCs are indeed massive. But, as exciting as it may be to trade notes on Dan Ariely’s (Ph.D. ’98) theory of irrational behavior with a banker in Kazakhstan, sometimes you want something a bit more intimate.</p> <p>Enter the DAA’s new “alumni-exclusive” MOOCs. Created with the help of Duke’s Office of Digital and Online Educational Initiatives, the new courses offer alumni a chance to re-create the Duke classroom experience, taking classes with top professors along with fellow members of the Duke community.</p> <p>DAA will launch its first alumni-exclusive course in June, a six-lecture course from cultural anthropology professor Orin Starn titled “Sports and Society.” Course material is designed to be easily consumable, with lectures of only eight to ten minutes. Enrollees have the option of visiting Duke for an in-person class to cap off the course.</p> <p>Starn says the course format is opening a new way to connect with alumni on a more personal level. “The world of online education is a whole new and still relatively unexplored frontier,” he says. “It’s a way for keeping open the flow of learning and interchange between faculty and graduates once they’ve left campus. I stay in touch with many of my former students, but I always wish I had much more contact. This is a way to do that.”</p> <p>Jenn Chambers ’01, director of DAA’s alumni education programs, says the new online courses are part of a larger effort to experiment with new kinds of educational programming that fit into the busy lives of Blue Devils throughout the world.</p> <p>“Whether you have a few minutes, a few days, or a few weeks, there really is something for everyone.”</p> <p>Chambers notes that most Coursera courses run between two and four months, making them well-suited for people who want an in-depth understanding of a particular topic. Coursera and other sites also offer options for earning certificates upon completing courses. DAA’s new courses, however, are designed to appeal to broader intellectual curiosities and showcase some of Duke’s top lecturers.</p> <p>Chambers plans to feature DAA’s Faculty Fellows, for example, in alumni-exclusive course formats. DAA recently added new professors to the fellows program, started in 2012 to bring Duke’s top faculty to alumni groups around the country.</p> <p>Alumni wanting educational opportunities with an even shorter time commitment can look forward to DAA’s new “instant education.” Chambers says she is planning 60-second videos of faculty members offering their expertise on timely topics, and Google Hangouts with multiple faculty members who will discuss the same topic from different perspectives.</p> <p>“One common quality in almost every alumnus is the desire to learn. It’s a thirst for knowledge and understanding that is characteristic of almost every student and one of the reasons that they attended Duke,” Chambers says. “We are able to give alumni exclusive access, unique Duke experiences, and creative programming they cannot find anywhere else.”</p> <p>Hear more about educational opportunities for alumni. Sign up for DAA's Forever Learning newsletter by e-mailing education@daa.duke.edu</p> <p><strong>MEET THE NEW FACULTY FELLOWS</strong></p> <p>Begun in 2012, the DAA Faculty Fellows program taps top Duke professors to teach alumni-exclusive online courses, engage with alumni via campus lectures and events, and host alumni educational events in cities throughout the country during a three-year term. Four new fellows were named in 2015:</p> <p><strong>Mohamed Noor</strong></p> <p>Title: Earl D. McLean Professor and chair of biology</p> <p>Education: College of William and Mary (B.S.) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.)</p> <p>Research interests: Molecular evolution, evolutionary genetics, how genetic changes lead to new species</p> <p>Lab companion: Fruit flies, known by their scientific name as Drosophila. Noor studies their mating habits and offspring to better understand molecular evolution.</p> <p>On Coursera: “Introduction to Genetics and Evolution”</p> <p>Follow the fellow: <a href="https://twitter.com/mafnoor" target="_blank">@mafnoor</a></p> <p><strong>Emma Rasiel</strong></p> <p>Title: Associate professor of the practice of economics, teaching director of the Duke Financial Economics Center, director of the Duke in New York program</p> <p>Education: Oxford University (B.S., A.M.), Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.), Fuqua School (Ph.D.)</p> <p>Research interests: Behavioral economics and how it relates to health care</p> <p>In another life: Rasiel traded bond options as an executive director at Goldman Sachs in London.</p> <p>Class act: Rasiel keeps track of former students working on Wall Street and is known to invite them to speak to her classes.</p> <p><strong>David Schanzer </strong></p> <p>Title: Associate professor of the practice in the Sanford School, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security</p> <p>Education: Harvard University (A.B., J.D.)</p> <p>Research interests: National security, civil liberties, emergency preparedness, terrorism, bioterrorism</p> <p>Boots on the ground: From 2003 to 2005, Schanzer was the Democratic staff director for the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security.</p> <p>On Coursera: Responding to 911: Counter-terrorism Policy in the 21st Century</p> <p>Follow the fellow: <a href="https://twitter.com/schanzerdavid" target="_blank">@schanzerdavid</a></p> <p><strong>D. Sunshine Hillygus</strong></p> <p>Title: Associate professor of political science, director of Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology</p> <p>Education: University of Arkansas (B.S., A.M.) and Stanford University (A.M., Ph.D.)</p> <p>Research interests: American political behavior, public opinion, survey methods, campaigns, and elections</p> <p>Drilling for data: Hillygus began her teaching career at Harvard University, where she was the founding director of the university’s Program on Survey Research.</p> <p>Giving back: Since 2012, Hillygus has served on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Scientific Advisory Committee, a volunteer-based, 21-member committee that advises the bureau on data collection, statistical analysis, and survey methodology.</p> <p>Still a fan: Hillygus features an audio recording of the Arkansas Razorbacks’ famous hog call on her website.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-05-01T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, May 1, 2015</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/MOOCmain.png" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/michael-penn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Michael Penn</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/magazine/writers/christina-holder" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Christina Holder</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/summer-2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Summer 2015</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/MOOC-portrait_0.png" width="250" height="300" alt="" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">DAA launches online courses exclusively for alumni</div></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Cover Story </h3> <h3 class="field-label"> Homepage </h3> Fri, 01 May 2015 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498576 at https://alumni.duke.edu https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/moocs-duke#comments Five Views of a Fifth Championship https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/five-views-fifth-championship <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>THE VIEW FROM CAMERON</strong></p> <p>In the future, we’ll see a merging between the virtual and the actual. Are we players in the real world? Or are we players who just act as if we’re in the real world?</p> <p>In Cameron Indoor Stadium for the Duke-Wisconsin game, the future arrived. The game was up there, on the giant scoreboard. But the game might as well have been down there, on the floor of Cameron, just below the concession stands with their (real-world) $8 box pizzas.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="caption caption-center"> <div class="caption-width-container" style="width: 480px;"> <div class="caption-inner"><strong><img alt="" class="media-image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Bballcrowd.png?itok=LgQ7VnW4" style="height:305px; vertical-align:middle; width:480px" /></strong>And the crowd goes wild. (Photo by Megan Mendenhall) <p>And the crowd goes wild. (Photo by Megan Mendenhall)</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>For the occasion, Cameron was a students-only zone. With a show of coordinated chaos, they indulged in their heart-pumping, stadium-shaking, noise-making up-and-down bounce. They wore blue wigs, devil horns that glowed, and T-shirts that carried supportive statements: “Blue Devil Basketball Never Stops,” “You Can’t Handle The D,” and (in a reaching back to past glory) “Laettner 32.” In a sea of blue, one spectator sported an orange- and-yellow costume. “I’m a giraffe,” she explained.</p> <p>Pregame, as the Channel 3 (“On Your Side”) camera surveyed the crowd, student responses were appropriate to the stimulus: They waved, they made faces, they recited the virtues of the team. With the playing of the national anthem, they sang along, badly but exuberantly.</p> <p>During the game, as players approached the free-throw line, the students sometimes traced the path to the basket with their extended arms. And sometimes they gestured with wild abandon—depending, of course, on the team attempting the free throw. As the score veered in and out of Duke’s favor, they sounded the familiar chant: “Let’s go, Duke!!!” You just can’t record that without an arsenal of exclamation points.</p> <p>A high-schooler, visiting Duke as a prospective student (an even more committed prospect by evening’s end), was in synch with one crowd ritual: adamantly exercising his iPhone to unleash “tons of pictures” for his friends. Phones fired away around the final score, 68-63. There was more bouncing, a lot of hugging, shouts of “This is insane” (“this” referring either to the game or the celebratory aftermath), the rushing of the Cameron floor, and the grabbing of instantly printed newspapers with a “National Champions” headline.</p> <p>The action shifted to the bonfire and the sacrifice of dorm benches—maybe a sign of spontaneous joy, or maybe the carrying out of a familiar ritual. A news helicopter hovered high above. One student called out, “Hello, helicopter!” What was that goofy greeting all about? It didn’t matter. It was just a night for feeling good.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>- Robert Bliwise</em></p> <p><strong>INSIDE A PLAYER'S MIND</strong></p> <p>On the morning of Monday, April 6, Grayson Allen woke up thinking about bubonic plague.</p> <p>This was twelve hours before he became that Grayson Allen, before he came off the bench to resuscitate a Blue Devil team suddenly gone lifeless and lead Duke to its fifth national championship in basketball. This was when he was just Grayson, a nineteen-year-old freshman, the eighth man on an eight-man team, and, on the biggest day of his Duke life, a kid with homework.</p> <p>“I had a paper due for my Medieval Christianity class,” Allen recalled later. “I wanted to get it done by Sunday, but it was kind of hard to carve out the time.”</p> <p>Hard because the Final Four, an event built around 120 minutes of college basketball, is as heavily orchestrated as a diplomatic summit. Since arriving in Indianapolis five days earlier, Allen and his teammates had been shuttled between press conferences, team meetings, meals, and photo opportunities. The agenda relented only at night, when many of the players gathered in a hotel suite to play video games. Allen had cut out early on Sunday evening to work on his paper, a review of a novel set in England during the time of the Black Death, but at midnight he put it aside to get some sleep. Or at least try to.</p> <p>“I lay awake for probably an hour,” he says. “I was remembering watching Duke play in the 2010 national championship game,” which was also held in Indianapolis. “I was in eighth grade, and I knew I wanted to play for Duke. To be in the same place, playing for the championship, I just couldn’t believe it.”</p> <p>Until then, Allen’s first year at Duke hadn’t been much of a fairy tale. Though he arrived with less fanfare than teammates Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones, and Justise Winslow, Allen was a McDonald’s All-American coming out of high school in Jacksonville, Florida. His ambitions rose as high as his thirty-seven- inch vertical jump could carry him. Yet in the Blue Devils’ first twenty regular-season games, Allen played more than ten minutes only three times. When Duke faced its eventual championship-game foe Wisconsin in December, he never got off the bench.</p> <p>That made Allen’s heroic role in the final even more astounding. The freshman scored sixteen points—including eight during a one-minute, nine-second flurry in the second half that erased most of a nine-point Wisconsin lead. Within two days, Allen would have 50,000 new Instagram followers. A few snide columnists pegged him as “the next great Duke villain.”</p> <p><img alt="" class="media-image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Basketballextra_0.png?itok=bDXUgL2u" style="height:355px; width:480px" /></p> <p>But on Monday morning, all that was a fantasy as remote as fourteenth-century England. Reality was a hotel room, an open laptop, and the quiet click of keys as Allen completed his paper. After filing the assignment, he e-mailed his professor, Katharine Dubois ’89, to say he hoped the class would be able to watch the game. Dubois assured him they would, “with probably more exclamation points than I would usually use in e-mails to students or colleagues,” she says. “But I am a Duke grad, after all.”</p> <p>Dubois’ class meets on Monday evenings, from 6:30 to 9. That night, she let the students out early so they could get to their game-watching destinations, none of them imagining that their absent classmate was about to become a legend. Not even Grayson Allen.</p> <p><em>-Michael Penn</em></p> <p><strong>ON THE BEAT IN INDIANA</strong></p> <div class="caption caption-center"> <div class="caption-width-container" style="width: 400px;"> <div class="caption-inner"><strong><img alt="" class="media-image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Bballcoach_0.png?itok=Yurbx6MG" style="height:350px; width:400px" /></strong>A Coach K embrace (Photo by Jon Gardiner) <p>A Coach K embrace (Photo by Jon Gardiner)</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>The cardinal rule of press row is very simple: No cheering. So as a student journalist seated in the south end zone of Lucas Oil Stadium, I was likely one of few Duke students who watched the final seconds of Duke’s 68-63 win against Wisconsin tick away with a straight face. When the final buzzer sounded, I finished my work on my laptop, closed the lid, and walked to the edge of the raised court for the trophy presentation, passing the quickly emptying Badger student section and trying to imagine the delirium raging inside Cameron Indoor Stadium 600 miles from Indianapolis.</p> <p>During the ceremony and ensuing press conferences, I kept my thoughts from showing. But internally, the heart-thumping from the tense final minutes was starting to die down, and the realization that Duke had won was starting to sink in.</p> <p>For Quinn Cook, the win was vindication. The senior captain finally captured the banner he had been chasing for four years. For Final Four Most Outstanding Player Tyus Jones, whose nineteen second- half points brought the Blue Devils back from a nine-point deficit, it was just one of many shining moments in a dynamite freshman season.</p> <p>Head coach Mike Krzyzewski always has preached doing things “together,” and this year’s team completely embraced that message. In watching the players’ season-long evolution from press row, I was struck by their focus and willingness to deflect praise to their teammates, even on a team loaded with freshman stars destined for the pros. Outside pressures did not affect the way they talked and did not affect the way they played all season long. None of that changed when Duke got to the biggest stage of all: the Final Four, where we in the media fully exhausted our list of questions during four days of endless pregame and postgame availability. As Justise Winslow said in the days leading up to the South Regional in Houston, Duke treated its weekends in March like “a business trip,” and the Blue Devils returned to Durham having sealed the deal.</p> <p>I left the media room around 3:30 the next morning—at which point the on-campus festivities had probably moved on from the Main Quad bonfire—to get a few hours of rest before driving back to Durham. I’ll continue to strive for objective reporting, but it sure would be nice to be back next year.</p> <p><em>-Ryan Hoerger</em></p> <p><strong>ALUMS TUNE IN AROUND THE WORLD</strong></p> <div class="caption caption-center"> <div class="caption-width-container" style="width: 480px;"> <div class="caption-inner"><strong><img alt="" class="media-image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Bballmap.png?itok=99iotraM" style="height:305px; width:480px" /></strong>More than 200 alumni pinned their game watch locations to a "Global Cameron" Google map. <p>More than 200 alumni pinned their game watch locations to a "Global Cameron" Google map.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p><em><strong>Jessica Gaither Vandett</strong></em> M.S. ’07 was in Banner Elk, North Carolina, cheering on the Blue Devils with her dad and five-year-old daughter, Zoë. During the last Duke championship win in 2010, Vandett was in the neonatal intensive- care unit at CHI St. Vincent’s Infirmary in Little Rock, Arkansas, with Zoë, who was delivered at thirty-three weeks. That night, as Vandett watched over her sleeping daughter, she cheered on the Blue Devils to victory with one of Zoë’s neonatologists. “We felt she was a good-luck charm,” Vandett says. And on game night this year, a healthy, strong Zoë worked her magic again. “She cheered her heart out,” Vandett says.</p> <p><em><strong>Michael Pelehach</strong></em> ’10, a Fulbright scholar who teaches English in Silistra, Bulgaria, was in Bucharest for one night, catching a plane to Greece the next morning. The Blue Devils were playing in about four hours, so he ordered two cups of coffee to go from a bar close to his hostel—for later when he woke up for the game—and tried to get a little sleep. “I set three alarms to make sure I was wide awake in time for tip-off at 4 a.m.,” Pelehach says. And he was. The next morning, a groggy and happy Pelehach chatted with another hostel guest. He had stayed up all night before rushing to the airport. “Oh, that was you!” the guest said. “I heard a bunch of clapping and yelling at ungodly hours last night!”</p> <p><em><strong>Liz Clarke Glynn</strong></em> ’07 and her husband, Declan, were preparing to board a plane home to Washington after a whirlwind trip that included a family wedding. The plane did not have in-flight Wi-Fi, so Glynn, in her Duke shirt, was hoping the flight got delayed. Throughout her time in Australia, Glynn had streamed the NCAA tournament games successfully from her smart phone—including the Final Four from atop the Blue Mountain range in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. She commiserated with a fellow Duke fan on board. She appealed to the flight attendant, asking for help nudging the captain for the score. But it was radio silence until Glynn landed in the U.S. “As we started our descent, I got my phone out and had it prepped and ready to go to find out the score,” Glynn says. “Once I knew, I couldn’t stop smiling and was so excited! It got me through the long customs process in a great mood!”</p> <p><em>-Christina Holder</em></p> <p><strong>MERCH MADNESS</strong></p> <p>Jim Wilkerson spent the night of the championship at home watching the game with family and friends. Right at the buzzer, amid shouting friends and a howling beagle, the director of trademark licensing and store operations for Duke University Stores texted one of the apparel suppliers: “Print ’em!” His message was the green light to start printing championship shirts.</p> <p><strong>By the Numbers</strong></p> <p><strong>130</strong> employees worked at the Duke Store the day after the game (40 more than usual)</p> <p><strong>10,000</strong> customers bought gear the day after the game</p> <p><strong>$1,000,000+</strong> in revenue from championship gear sales</p> <p><strong>15,000</strong> T-shirts purchased in the first 24 hours after the game</p> <p><em>-Elizabeth Van Brocklin</em></p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-05-01T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, May 1, 2015</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/Basketballmain.png" width="1900" height="900" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/robert-j-bliwise" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Robert J. Bliwise</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/magazine/author/michael-penn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Michael Penn</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/writers/ryan-hoerger" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ryan Hoerger</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/magazine/writers/christina-holder" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Christina Holder</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/elizabeth-van-brocklin" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Elizabeth Van Brocklin</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/summer-2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Summer 2015</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> Yes <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Looking at one great acheivement</div></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Cover Story </h3> <h3 class="field-label"> Homepage </h3> Fri, 01 May 2015 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498578 at https://alumni.duke.edu https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/five-views-fifth-championship#comments A Noteworthy Profession https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/noteworthy-profession <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>There’s no single blueprint to creating a song; each composer has his own approach. From finding a new way to adapt a classic to working within time constraints, there are many things at play when it comes to writing music. A trio of Duke alumni knows these rigors all too well. In a given week, Michael Ching ’80 and George Lam Ph.D. ’11 may be working out the kinks of a new opera, while Bill Cunliffe ’78 is writing the latest song for his big band. Though they share a goal in creating music, each takes his own path getting there.</p><p><strong>GEORGE LAM</strong></p><p><strong><img alt="" class="media-image" height="355" width="480" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Musicgeorge.png?itok=G7598AIg" /></strong></p><p>It had been nearly twenty years since George Lam left his native Hong Kong. So when he was commissioned to write an orchestral work by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Lam had to figure out how to write about a place frozen in memory.</p><p>His solution was to use the sense of nostalgia. The work he created in 2009, “The Queen’s Gramophone,” is about an imaginary gramophone in a 1950s-era Hong Kong nightclub that exists in a Cantonese black-and-white film. The scene he created opens with a bassoon solo Lam says is meant to emulate the sounds of a saxophone. Percussion evokes the music of that era when tambourines and woodblocks ruled.</p><p>“I take a step back before I begin my writing process. I think of what question I want to explore or answer,” he says.</p><p>Before he left Durham, Lam wrote <em>The Persistence of Smoke</em>, a single-act opera about the local cigarette industry. He was intrigued by the industry’s role in Durham’s history, how cigarettes were both an economic boon and a cause of harms, like cancer.</p><p>But Lam didn’t just compose an opera. He was also part journalist, spending time in the community, interviewing residents, and collecting information to add a layer of authenticity to his work.</p><p>“I don’t get excited just about sound. That’s part of why I wanted to become a composer,” says Lam. “It is a medium to ask questions.”</p><p><strong>BILL CUNLIFFE</strong></p><p><strong><img alt="" class="media-image" height="480" width="384" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Musicbill.png?itok=v5VWinl5" /></strong></p><p>For Bill Cunliffe, music is a trip you go on, from the first note to the last, and the Cal State Fullerton professor has an innovative flair when it comes to being a travel guide. When his trio took on “The Way You Look Tonight,” a classic song that lasts around three minutes, the Bill Cunliffe Trio tripled its length, reshaping it into a furiously paced jazz song. The composition was improvised on the fly, with Cunliffe giving cues to his bandmates along the way.</p><p>That’s not always how he works. Usually when he’s writing a new piece, Cunliffe starts at the piano. He’ll work out the details of his piece with one of his computer programs. But when it comes to innovating, Cunliffe says he comes up with his most creative work by playing the piano as he writes.</p><p>Cunliffe is known for blending genres—chiefly jazz with classical and pop, a trait he shares with piano great Mary Lou Williams, with whom he studied at Duke. Like a painter gaining mastery of his palette, “musicians need to have a vocabulary,” says Cunliffe, who won a Grammy in 2009 for best instrumental arrangement.</p><p>Having a diverse “vocab” allows a composer to go in multiple directions, he says. “I try to innovate because the process allows you to do more.”</p><p>As he notes with his take on “The Way You Look Tonight,” there were many covers of that song since its release. The task, he says, was putting his own spin on something that had been done before. “You don’t want to imitate. You want to adapt.”</p><p><strong>MICHAEL CHING</strong></p><p><strong><img alt="" class="media-image" height="355" style="vertical-align: middle;" width="480" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Musicmichael.png?itok=AT6pfu4y" /></strong></p><p>Use less to make more. That was Michael Ching’s approach when he was asked to write an opera of Shakespeare’s <em>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</em> for Opera Memphis.</p><p>Ching decided on an a cappella format to create a so-called “voicestra.” After the opera’s debut, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> praised its inventive nature, calling it “a celebration of what voices can do.”</p><p>A bit of fortune and a Blue Devil tie brought Ching to the idea. Before he began working on <em>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</em>, he was invited to work with DeltaCappella, a Memphis-based a cappella group founded by Jay Mednikow M.B.A. ’90. A cappella was unfamiliar territory for Ching, but he fell in love with the possibilities when it came to composing. “The voices make incredible sounds, they sound like instruments,” says Ching. “There’s a ‘wow’ factor.”</p><p>He says the performers were engaged by the novel format, but there were challenges, such as keeping the voices in tune throughout the performance. A piano was kept in the pit to help.</p><p>Ching—who studied under Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Robert Ward while at Duke—says writing operas is a mix of the literary and the pragmatic.</p><p>“It’s the kind of thing where the whole is supposed to be greater than the sum of its parts,” he says. “You have to pay attention to what goes on on the stage. There’s the practical side, making sure characters have enough time to get on and off stage and that singers have enough time to breathe.</p><p> <em>Andrew Clark is a Boston-based writer.</em></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS 明朝'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><strong>STUDENTS COMPOSE TOO:</strong> Harish Eswaran '15 spent his senior year at Duke University bringing music to life. For his senior project, the biology and music major composed his first large-scale piece, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carnatic Concerto</em>, which merges two styles of violin. Check out Duke video news manager Julie Schoonmaker's piece about this talented recent graduate. <br /></span></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1fxAWCQpTs0" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe></p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-05-01T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, May 1, 2015</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/Noteworthymain.png" width="1900" height="900" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/andrew-clark" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Andrew Clark</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/summer-2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Summer 2015</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/Musicportrait_0.jpeg" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Three alumni on the art of composing</div></div></section> Fri, 01 May 2015 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498577 at https://alumni.duke.edu Forever Duke Q&A: Jim Toomey https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/forever-duke-qa-jim-toomey <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Toomey is the cartoonist behind Sherman’s Lagoon, a comic strip that follows the lives of ocean characters addressing environmental topics such as shark finning, ocean pollution, and threats to the world’s coral reefs. The strip is syndicated in 250 newspapers, thirty foreign countries, and five languages. He has won two Environmental Hero Awards from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “for using art and humor to conserve and protect our marine heritage.”</p><p><em>When did your passion for marine conservation begin?</em></p><p>I had a formative experience when I was eleven or twelve. My dad was an old military pilot. He retired, but he still flew small planes. We flew over the Bahamas. It was extremely clear water. I just saw this underwater landscape that I had never really seen before. That was the beginning of my falling in love with what was below the surface of the ocean. Fast forward a couple decades, and I’m doing the comic strip. I chose the underwater characters because of my fascination with the ocean. I was contacted by NOAA to do some outreach. They thought the comic strip could really reach a lot of people and convey an important message in a subtle, entertaining way.</p><p><em>What are you hoping to leave with your readers through your comic strips?</em></p><p>I don’t know if I’ve changed hearts and minds all that much as much as I’ve created a little bit of awareness. I had the privilege, through the courtesy of the Duke Marine Lab and Cindy Van Dover [Duke Marine Lab director and professor of biological oceanography], of diving in the DSV Alvin [a deep-sea research sub] last summer. In the run-up to that trip, I took the characters to the deepest parts of the Gulf of Mexico, to a place called the Sigsbee Deep. It’s a lot of fun taking the characters to different places in the ocean and introducing the readers to the crazy characters that live there.</p><p><em>What was it like drawing for</em> The Chronicle<em>? </em></p><p>I aspired to be a political cartoonist, and I ended up not liking it that much. I did a lot of national and international cartoons. By the time senior year rolled around, I was doing almost exclusively campus issues, and I really loved that. I look back at those Duke years and drawing for The Chronicle as really formative. At the end of my four years I was flattered to be contacted by Perkins Library. They wanted all the originals.</p><p><em>How do you come up with your story lines on a daily basis?</em></p><p>I’ll cast around looking for something unusual. Sometimes that’s an ocean-related story. There’s a giant jellyfish in the Sea of Japan that was just discovered. But that alone doesn’t make a story. So if you make that jellyfish into a character, it’s a character that is too big to be comfortable with itself. It’s an insecure jellyfish. You put that jellyfish into a story situation where its insecurity comes out in a humorous way. You combine the quirkiness of marine life with the quirkiness of your own life experience. It’s really the banal life experiences that are the most entertaining.</p><p><em>What’s next for Sherman?</em></p><p>My wife and I bought a sailboat, and we’re selling our house in June, and we’re going to live on the sailboat for a year. So the comic strip is going to follow the waters around where we’re going. We are going to start on the west coast of Europe around Bordeaux, France, and the Bay of Biscay and go down to Portugal and Spain and through Gibraltar, so you’ll probably be seeing a lot of Mediterranean themes.</p><p><em>What’s your advice for Duke students who want to engage in advocacy in a creative way?</em></p><p>I followed my passion. You could call it the path of least resistance. You go into it thinking you’ve already written your autobiography when you’re eighteen. You’ve figured it all out. I think you can do that to a certain extent. The planning is valuable to keep you on course. You also need to be able to adapt to a situation. You need to willingly jump off that narrative you’ve written for yourself if an opportunity comes along.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-05-01T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, May 1, 2015</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/Toomeymain.png" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/writers/christina-holder" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Christina Holder</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/summer-2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Summer 2015</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/Toomeyportait_0.png" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-photo-credit field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Photo Credit:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/photographers/jim-toomey" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Jim Toomey</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sterly Wilder &#039;83, associate vice president for alumni affairs, in conversation with the Class of &#039;83 &quot;Sherman&#039;s Lagoon&quot; creator</div></div></section> Fri, 01 May 2015 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498575 at https://alumni.duke.edu Retro: The Chapel's Secret Room https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/retro-chapels-secret-room <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><span class="dc">E</span>ach spring, seniors are given the opportunity to climb to the top of the chapel tower and take in the stunning views. Within the tower are the carillon bells that ring each day at 5 p.m., as well as during university ceremonies. The chapel is perhaps Duke’s best-known building. But what is not well known is that a rarely visited room lies beneath the carillon level, about halfway up the tower.</p><p>The octagonal stone room has a high ceiling, perhaps twenty feet tall, and views of the campus through narrow windows. There are few objects in the room, but the walls are embedded with several special stones removed from other buildings. One stone is etched “Trinity College / Founded 1859 / Removed 1891.” Whether this stone was in an original Trinity College building in Randolph County is not clear—cornerstones aren’t typically carved in anticipation of an end date. We do know, however, that this stone originally was installed in the Washington Duke building, the major campus building at Trinity College when it opened in Durham.</p><p>Interestingly, 1891 was meant to be the year of the opening, but because of the structural failure and collapse of the building, the move had to be delayed until 1892. The Washington Duke Building also contained the Trinity College bell, which had been transported to Durham from Randolph County. When the Washington Duke building burned in 1912, neither the bell nor the stone had a logical home until they were both placed in the chapel tower room. The bell has since been relocated to the Bell Tower dormitory on East Campus.</p><p>The room also contains two slab-type stones that were removed from Craven Memorial Hall, one of the original East Campus buildings. Craven was torn down in the mid-1920s, but these large slabs specify the building committee, architect, and builder, as well as proclaiming that the building was “erected to the memory of Braxton Craven, D.D., LL.D., Founder of Trinity College, under the auspices of the Alumni Association.”</p><p>There is little documentation as to how the room might be used, other than as a sort of vault for historical artifacts— there is no mention of it in the Chapel Dedication program. It was used only for general storage for many years after the chapel was completed in 1932. But, in 1967, the Services Committee of the Duke YMCA, headed by Murray Brown ’69, set up a miniature history museum in the space. Cases in the room contained historic correspondence, photographs, and other materials related to Duke history. The museum was open only on Saturdays and Monday afternoons.</p><p>The room, which has no climate control for hot or cold weather, was not ideal for storing archival items. Whether through lack of interest, lack of access, or perhaps the establishment of the University Archives in 1972, the room ceased being used as a history museum in the mid-1970s and has been mostly empty since then. Today, it is still accessible only through the tiny elevator and spiral staircase that provide access to the chapel tower. This curious room—a reminder that our long North Carolina roots stretch back to Randolph County—is a special treat for a few lucky visitors each year.</p><p><em>Valerie Gillispie is the university archivist.</em></p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-05-01T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, May 1, 2015</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/Retro_main.jpeg" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/valerie-gillispie" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Valerie Gillispie</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/summer-2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Summer 2015</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/Retroportrait_0.png" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-photo-credit field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Photo Credit:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/photographers/duke-university-archives" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Duke University Archives</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Few get to visit this space in the chapel tower</div></div></section> Fri, 01 May 2015 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498574 at https://alumni.duke.edu Collection of Old-Timey Sheet Music https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/collection-old-timey-sheet-music <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>America’s history is written into its music. These sheets of feel-good summertime music for voice and piano are artifacts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They’re part of the American Sheet Music Project, a historic collection of more than 3,000 pieces stored in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library.</p><p>The assortment includes waltzes, operas, musicals, polkas, spirituals, war tunes, and songs of the Tin Pan Alley variety.</p><p>Preserving these sheets is tricky: Paper made from rags tends to hold up well, while music printed on cheaper wood pulp paper quickly becomes brittle.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-05-01T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, May 1, 2015</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/Devilsmain.png" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/elizabeth-van-brocklin" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Elizabeth Van Brocklin</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/summer-2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Summer 2015</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/Devilsportait_0.png" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-photo-credit field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Photo Credit:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/photographers/duke-university-archives" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Duke University Archives</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue Fri, 01 May 2015 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498573 at https://alumni.duke.edu Alumni Update https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/alumni-update <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><br /><strong><span class="dc">G</span>reg Brandeau M.B.A. ’92 </strong>returned to Duke to talk about his book, <em>Collective Genius</em></p><p>This past spring Greg Brandeau M.B.A. ’92, former chief technology officer at The Walt Disney Studios and the coauthor of a new book from Harvard Business Review Press called <em>Collective Genius</em>, returned to campus to talk to students at the Fuqua School of Business about leadership that has the power to transform companies. He calls it the “collective genius.”</p><p>“Everybody has some slice of genius,” he said. “You don’t know how it is going to express itself.”</p><p>And that’s why you need everyone to contribute, Brandeau said. Together, those diverse perspectives help create a stronger, more dynamic company.</p><p>But it’s not enough to have diverse thought. You need a leader who can bring out the best in employees so that they can contribute to the collective, Brandeau said.</p><p>In the book, Brandeau, along with three additional authors, including Harvard Business School professor of business administration Linda Hill, explores how companies such as eBay, Google, and Volkswagen have created an environment in which employees have the freedom to try new ideas and to fail without being criticized.</p><p>“You don’t get fired for making a mistake. The only failure you could have is if you didn’t experiment and you didn’t learn something.” In that kind of environment, innovation continues to replicate itself naturally, he said.</p><p>Brandeau told students that learning to work as a team and to respect everyone’s opinion is something he first learned at Duke when he was assigned to work on projects with an English major, an art history major, a former nurse, and a former engineer.</p><p>“It was transformative,” he said. “Everybody on that team contributed in their own way.”</p><p>Are you part of the collective genius? Tweet using #collectivegenius, and tell Brandeau how you are leading in a way that brings out the best in your colleagues.</p><p>-Christina Holder</p><p> </p><p><span class="dc"><img alt="" class="media-image" height="270" style="float: left;" width="350" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Maxi2.png?itok=U-gD8Eas" />S</span>iblings <strong>Samantha Stach ’09</strong> and <strong>Eric Stach ’14 </strong>finally make it to a Duke-UNC basketball game together</p><p>In her brother’s opinion, Samantha Stach ’09 should crown sibling Eric Stach ’14 “brother of the year.” That’s because when the younger Stach won two tickets to the February Duke vs. UNC men’s basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium via a DAA Twitter giveaway contest, he invited his sister—but not until after Samantha took to Twitter to appeal to her brother. Samantha had never been to a Duke-UNC game. Eric, who had been part of Tent #1 for four years as an undergraduate, won the pair of tickets from a random drawing of more than 3,000 entrants. Read their story as it unfolded on Twitter via Duke Today’s story, <a href="%20http://today.duke.edu/2015/02/tale-two-tickets" target="_blank">“A Tale of Two Tickets."</a></p><p>-Christina Holder</p><p> </p><p><img alt="" class="media-image" height="300" style="float: left;" width="250" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Maxi3.png?itok=964eSbwE" /><strong><span class="dc">C</span>hris McCormack ’13</strong> is making a career for himself as a sport agent, representing tennis stars Roger Federer and Grigor Dimitrov.</p><p>During his time in Durham, Chris McCormack ’13 worked in the Duke sports marketing office, helping drum up sponsors and season-ticket packages for a once-struggling Blue Devil football program. Just two years out of college, he’s now doing some of the day-to-day business for tennis legend Roger Federer.</p><p>An agent with Cleveland-based Team8, McCormack works for Federer’s agent, Tony Godsick, and serves as the main point person for Grigor Dimitrov, a rising star on the professional tennis circuit who finished 2014 ranked eleventh in the world. The firm focuses on representing iconic figures in the sports world—three of Team8’s four current clients are tennis players—giving McCormack the opportunity to work with legends like Federer, the owner of seventeen career Grand Slam titles, as he learns the ins and outs of the business.</p><p>“You kind of pinch yourself every once in a while, because there are so many other kids that are young and in the sports industry and are my age, but they don’t necessarily have the same opportunities,” McCormack says.</p><p>McCormack always had the inside track to a career in talent representation, if he’d wanted it. His grandfather, Mark McCormack, founded IMG, the entertainment and talent representation powerhouse, in 1960. His father, Todd McCormack ’82, helped run IMG new media division, assisting athletes in creating personal websites during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s and working with events and host sites like Wimbledon and the All-England Club to develop digital strategies.</p><p>Working at a small firm like Team8 provides McCormack with opportunities right out of the gate that larger organizations aren’t able to match. Based in Cleveland, he travels around the world to major tennis tournaments, handling media and sponsor requests for Dimitrov. The top Bulgarian on the pro tour, Dimitrov resigned a sponsorship with Nike last August and added an endorsement deal with Rolex last October, both of which McCormack helped put together. Traveling with Federer—a champion with a squeakyclean image and numerous long-standing endorsement deals—requires even more legwork.</p><p>“Roger’s team has eight or nine people always traveling, and Grigor has at least four,” McCormack says. “People often see this job and say, ‘Oh, this guy is just out there running around to all these exotic locations; he’s got the luckiest job in the world.’ What they don’t see are all the phone calls and all the logistical nightmares that happen on a week-to-week basis.”</p><p>Federer and Dimitrov faced off in an exhibition at Madison Square Garden on March 10, a match Dimitrov won after dropping his three previous contests against Federer. As Dimitrov’s career begins to take off, McCormack will be along for the ride.</p><p>“The most exciting part of the job is you feel like these clients have almost become an extension of you. Their successes almost become your successes,” McCormack says. “When they win a big tournament, it’s almost like you’ve won a big tournament or that you’ve done something really well in your job.”</p><p>-Ryan Hoerger</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-05-01T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, May 1, 2015</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/summer-2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Summer 2015</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/Maxi1_0.png" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Three tales of alumni, the stories ranging from a new book to Duke&#039;s classic rivalry to tennis pro Roger Federer</div></div></section> Fri, 01 May 2015 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498570 at https://alumni.duke.edu Q&A: Drones Fly Into the Future https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/qa-drones-fly-future <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>You had to break barriers as one of the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy. Is it easier to work in an academic setting?</em></p> <p>Engineering is still a primarily male environment. My research can be a little controversial— human interaction with technology. Some engineers aren’t crazy about it. They think the work belongs more in psychology than in engineering.</p> <p><em>So you’re interested in human psychology as well as machines?</em></p> <p>Humans can be very good at reasoning through uncertainty, but very bad, for example, at repetitive tasks. Some airline pilots are texting while taxiing. That’s human nature: We get bored, and we get distracted. But we are also critical for helping computers in emergencies, like the Hudson River landing. It makes for very complex design problems.</p> <p><em>The name of your lab is a playful reference to the crazed computer HAL in the movie 2001. Are you going to produce something similarly scary?</em></p> <p>It’s more ironic than scary. In the movie, HAL didn’t really work well with humans. We’re trying to develop collaborative systems that leverage the strengths between humans and computers. When I was flying fighters, I could see the really bad designs that were killing my friends. In one year, I lost a friend a month—they were all accidents due to human error, but they were exacerbated by poor design in the cockpit.</p> <p><em>You see value in drone warfare because there are many people in the loop. Why would a Navy pilot welcome a lawyer’s presence?</em></p> <p>In the end, the pilot of a manned or unmanned aircraft still has the final say as to whether the bomb gets dropped. But if we’re trying to figure out whether we’re following the rules of war— how to factor in, for example, the presence of nearby civilians—I’m not sure we want an independent decision maker. Having military lawyers advise pilots and decisionmakers as a strike is unfolding prevents far more innocent deaths than having a pilot make this decision on his or her own.</p> <p><em>You’ve talked about the psychological damage that pilots face from lethal missions. How does that compare with the impact on drone controllers?</em></p> <p>We don’t really know. But fortunately it’s now more acceptable to admit, “I’m really struggling with these mentalhealth issues.” In my flying days, if you even hinted that you might be having second thoughts, you would be immediately pulled from the cockpit.</p> <p><em>Would you be confident flying on a pilotless plane?</em></p> <p>It depends on the context. I think commercial cargo airplanes could easily be, and will be, turned into drones. Passenger planes are different, because wherever you have a human presence, you need a leader—someone to manage unruly people, for example. There’s also the “shared fate” concept: We assume a human pilot will do everything to preserve his own life. That’s why the Germanwings crash is so difficult to process.</p> <p><em>Will Amazon be dropping off my future book order by drone?</em></p> <p>People in areas of China already are getting deliveries by drone. But outside of hard-toreach rural areas, drones will never be the primary delivery mode. They’ll also never be the biggest threat to privacy. It’s funny to me that we are so willing to give up privacy with our cell phones, which track our whereabouts constantly and are far more invasive than any drone could ever be.</p> <p><em>What about driverless cars, which you’ve described as drones on the road?</em></p> <p>Completely driverless cars won’t happen soon. Google has done some driving on California roads. Until they take that car to Boston in the winter, these aren’t true-tolife road conditions. There are infrastructure issues, sensor issues, reliability issues. But there are some bridging technologies—for example, where the radar will lock on a car in front of you as you’re inching along. The car will automatically do a slow crawl and allow you to do something else, like texting. And then, when you get to a certain speed, it will signal you to take control.</p> <p><em>Will technology eventually allow us to master the workings of the brain?</em></p> <p>It’s the decade of the brain, but we hardly know anything. We have no idea how to replicate love, judgment, the moral principles that go into deciding whether to fire a weapon on the battlefield. We’re not even close to translating abstract reasoning into bits and bytes.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-04-29T00:00:00-04:00">Wednesday, April 29, 2015</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/Q%26Amain.png" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/robert-j-bliwise" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Robert J. Bliwise</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/summer-2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Summer 2015</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/Q%26Aportrait_0.png" width="250" height="300" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-photo-credit field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Photo Credit:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/photographers/chris-hildreth" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Chris Hildreth</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Missy Cummings, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, spent eleven years as a naval officer and military pilot, obtaining the rank of lieutenant and flying an F/A-18 Hornet. She’s now director of Duke’s Humans and Autonomy Laboratory.</div></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Cover Story </h3> <h3 class="field-label"> Homepage </h3> Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498583 at https://alumni.duke.edu https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/qa-drones-fly-future#comments