2008 Woodie Awards
Council OKs Islam, bio certificates
By: Eugene Wang
Issue date: 4/19/07 Section: News
Last update: 4/19/07 at 9:10 AM EST
Last update: 4/19/07 at 9:10 AM EST
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Harer added that research will emphasize "vertical integration"-undergraduates, graduate students and professors working together and sharing expertise.
"[The certificate] brings together new kinds of modeling problems that biology presents together with the need to bring together mathematics, computer science and statistics," he said.
Harer said the field of computational biology is growing, and firms, especially in the pharmaceutical industry, are increasingly applying computational approaches to biological modeling problems.
"The fact that there are so many graduate programs in computational biology will make this program stronger," Harer said. "People will see that this prepares them for those programs in a direct way."
Duke's academic resources and focus on interdepartmental collaboration will help this certificate succeed, said sophomore Scott Spillias, who is majoring in both biology and mathematics.
He said many of his mathematics professors do research in biological modeling.
"I really feel like Duke is one of the best places for this to happen because we really do have all the people here required to make this a successful program," Spillias said.
"[The certificate] brings together new kinds of modeling problems that biology presents together with the need to bring together mathematics, computer science and statistics," he said.
Harer said the field of computational biology is growing, and firms, especially in the pharmaceutical industry, are increasingly applying computational approaches to biological modeling problems.
"The fact that there are so many graduate programs in computational biology will make this program stronger," Harer said. "People will see that this prepares them for those programs in a direct way."
Duke's academic resources and focus on interdepartmental collaboration will help this certificate succeed, said sophomore Scott Spillias, who is majoring in both biology and mathematics.
He said many of his mathematics professors do research in biological modeling.
"I really feel like Duke is one of the best places for this to happen because we really do have all the people here required to make this a successful program," Spillias said.
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Martha
posted 4/19/07 @ 11:26 AM EST
"Students will also be required to study abroad in a predominantly Muslim country and take two years of an "appropriate" language, such as Arabic, Persian, Turkish or Urdu, he added. (Continued…)
Not Martha
posted 4/19/07 @ 12:06 PM EST
Martha,
I see you represent the Turkish hating Greek, Armenian or Kurdish lobby. Your obvious hatred of Turks and Turkey is no different than any other type of hatred and should be condemn! You are a small person Martha, I pity you. (Continued…)
Truth Seeker
posted 4/19/07 @ 2:47 PM EST
Granted, Turkey is one screwed-up country, but it is not fair to single it out, 90% of the Islam-dominated countries are equally backward and pathetically primitive, or more so than Turkey. (Continued…)
*rolls eyes*
posted 4/19/07 @ 4:35 PM EST
Chemistry gave us the disaster in Bhopal and countless others. Let's disband that department rather than study it!
Pierre
posted 4/19/07 @ 5:28 PM EST
Thank you for posting such interesting information which never makes it into the French hebdomadaires. I didn't know before about this Armenian-victimizing Islamic/Turkish Holocaust, nor did I know about the extremely close connections between Arab Islam and Hitler and Nazism. (Continued…)
Enlightened Arab student
posted 4/19/07 @ 6:35 PM EST
Not all Arabs are terrorists, even if many are.
Here's one amazing Arab woman, former Muslim, who courageously speaks truth to power:
http://youtube. (Continued…)
William
posted 4/19/07 @ 7:20 PM EST
I can see why Duke would offer this certificate. The lack of knowledge about Islam (the doctrine)and the good and bad in Muslim countries is glaring from the responses. (Continued…)
I know better
posted 4/20/07 @ 7:56 AM EST
Re Turkey:
Wow! So this is the mighty intellectual and well informed Duke community? My only hope is that people who posted above do not actually represent the Duke community and they are only trespassers. (Continued…)
Speaking of women
posted 4/20/07 @ 9:12 AM EST
This is a minor point, and yes, it will probably come as a shock to some of the commentators above. Turkey has some of the most liberated and equally treated women in the World. (Continued…)
BozartSahara
posted 4/20/07 @ 2:44 PM EST
Ahhhh... and with this internet argument, Islam has finally been discredited for all time, and all Muslim nations cast into well-deserved disrepute. What a hundred popes and the colonizers of a dozen nations could not do, our feminist friend with a poor grasp of logic has finally accomplished. (Continued…)
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