Duke scholarships awarded
Twenty-two recent high school graduates have been selected winners of the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarships, the Reginaldo Howard Scholarships and University Scholarships, which provide full tuition.
This year's Benjamin N. Duke Scholarships recipients are: Aleksandra Chmielewski of Weaverville, N.C.; Devin Odom of Lexington, N.C.; Erin Phillips of Chesterfield, S.C.; Caroline Renn of Greensboro, N.C.; Julianna Tabor of Chapel Hill, N.C.; Kosha Tucker of Louisburg, N.C.; Anshu Verma of Greensboro, N.C.; and Brian Vetter of Spartanburg, S.C. The scholarship honors the brother of University benefactor James B. Duke.
This year's Reginaldo Howard Scholarships recipients--honoring Duke's first black student body president-- are: Brandon Hudson of Columbus, Ohio; Michelle Robinson of Laurel, Md.; Nicholas Shungu of Lawrenceville, N.J.; Tiffany Udoh of Waverly, Ga.; and Marvin Wickware of Terre Haute, Ind.
This year's University Scholars are: Joyce Coppock of Chicago, Ill.; Emily LaDue of Levittown, N.Y.; Yi Li of Fort Dodge, Iowa; Samuel Kidder of Poulsbo, Wash.; Michael McGahan of Gardiner, Mont.; Ilya Voytov of Raleigh; Huanjie Wang of Richardson, Texas; and Venis Wilder of Plantation, Fla. A $20 million gift from Bill and Melinda Gates created the program in 1998.
OB/GYN chair announced
Dr. Haywood Brown, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at the Indiana University School of Medicine, was named chair of Duke's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology last week.
Brown succeeds Dr. Charles Hammond, who stepped down in April after 22 years as chair to devote time to serving as president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Brown is currently a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, as well as of medical and molecular genetics at Indiana and is the residency program director of obstetrics and gynecology at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. He will assume his duties at Duke in October.
South Florida awaits
AAUP decision
The University of South Florida could face censure from the American Association of University Professors because of the school's treatment of professor Sami Al-Arian. The AAUP said the school's attitude toward Al-Arian, suspected by some of having alleged terrorist ties, raises "grave issues" of free speech and due process.
A committee of the AAUP--chaired by Duke law professor William Van Alstyne--has been investigating the case and its relation to academic freedom since March.
The committee released a statement Saturday supporting Al-Arian--father of former Chronicle columnist Abdullah Al-Arian, Trinity '02--and urged USF president Judy Genshaft not to fire him, as she threatened to do last year.
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