Into the wild
(09/01/10 4:42am)
This week, summer ends.
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This week, summer ends.
In July 2009, Anna Lieb went for an early morning run through the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. The scene was void of human company, and white mist hung in the spaces in her path. Suddenly Lieb, an undergraduate researcher in a Duke laboratory, witnessed a sight she felt she might have dreamt: a large dog-like animal appeared in the fog, followed by three companions.
They came with sticks.
Whether it is shotgunned in the Blue Zone before a football game or mixed with soda at a section party, alcohol appears to be a dietary staple for most of the student body.
2004 was a triumphant year for Homme Hellinga, James B. Duke professor of biochemistry. He had just received a $2.5 million Director’s Pioneer award from the National Institutes of Health, won a $10,000 Feynman Prize and discovered a way to engineer a powerful enzyme from a simple protein. The following year, he secured a titled professorship at the University. Hellinga’s accomplishments shone with promise—both Duke and the field were excited for the future.
The transfer of responsibilities from the Student Health pharmacy to the Outpatient Pharmacy will be complete before the new year.
The Student Health pharmacy, in its 40th year of operation, will close Dec. 18, Student Health administrators announced Tuesday.
One hundred years after Duke got its name, the University hopes to be carbon neutral.
Toddlers in wagon-beds with powdered sugar on their lips, boyfriends with stuffed pink tigers won for their dates, snow cones, cotton candy, rubber-duck-yellow corn-on-the-cob, pig races, wallabies, machines zipping, rotating, lighting-up as riders shriek with terror and delight.
Last Wednesday, 752 students sniffed their way out of swine flu at Student Health’s flu clinic.
White with a patch of orange on its ear, a cat sits on its haunches on an Allen Building step. It is night, and the shorthair is the only illuminated figure on the academic quad. So still it might be ghost or statue, it is one of Duke’s resident feral felines.
It has been three weeks since students returned to campus and the official count of students infected with the H1N1 virus is 50, said Dr. Bill Purdy, executive director of Student Health.
Duke University Health System formally announced plans Wednesday morning to build a new cancer center and medical pavilion-a total of approximately 850,000 square feet-at Duke University Hospital for a cost of more than $700 million.
As sophomore Mallory Contois prepared to return to Duke's campus last week, she learned she couldn't move into her Edens 2A room because something else had.
This week, around 13,000 students will convene on Duke's campus following a summer of flu outbreaks.
Forget sticky notes and smudged ink on the back of your hand. A group of Duke researchers have engineered a technology that lets users write notes to themselves in the air.
Roni Avissar will be leaving Duke and heading to the Sunshine State this summer, but not to take a vacation.
By January 2010, University employees and researchers will be able to park their cars in Duke's first "green" garage.
Duke has taken its first steps away from burning coal, cutting its reliance on the traditional fuel to reduce the University's impact on the environment.
April Fools' day was far from forgotten at Wednesday night's Duke University Union meeting.