Making mountains meet
(04/29/13 6:46am)
“Mountains never meet, but human beings do meet.”
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“Mountains never meet, but human beings do meet.”
The idyllic spring weather that floods campus in the final weeks of school is always a sign of some new beginning, be it the start of college for the hordes of pre-frosh wandering campus, the beginning of an internship or a summer project, or the initiation to the “real world” for those of us seniors who are finally being forced out of the security of being “college students.”
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A teenage girl in El Salvador, a self-proclaimed “nonacademic” freight train driver in England and a juvenile corrections instructor in Idaho have at least one thing in common: they all enrolled in Duke Professor Mohamed Noor’s “Genetics and Evolution” class last Fall.
2012 was a big year for Jimmy Soni, Trinity ‘07. In January, Arianna Huffington hand-picked Soni to serve as the managing editor of her popular news website, an accomplishment that motivated Forbes to name him one of the “30 under 30” in its list of media moguls. In October, Soni went on to co-publish his first book, “Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar,” which chronicles the life of Marcus Porcius Cato, a champion of Roman republicanism. Though only 27, Soni has accumulated a wide range of experiences, having studied in Ireland, written speeches for the mayor of the District of Columbia and gained experience in management consulting. Here, Towerview’s Matthew Chase asks Soni—who was also a Chronicle columnist in his times at Duke—to discuss post-graduation life, risk-taking and the future of journalism.
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Although the focus was on Jabari Parker's commitment to Duke Thursday, the Blue Devils also played basketball.
Duke’s debut as the No. 1 team in the nation was a tale of two games.
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A biomedical engineering professor and director of several Duke organizations that apply an engineering framework to the world’s great health inequities, Robert Malkin has made himself known—both at Duke and across the planet. Malkin’s “Pratt Pouch,” a ketchup-like packet that facilitates the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, was recently named one the World Health Organization’s “Top 10 Most Innovative Technologies,” and was recently selected as an awardee of the “Saving Lives at Birth” Grand Challenge. In light of the upcoming World AIDS Day, Towerview’s Matthew Chase sat down with Malkin to discuss the role that biomedical engineers play in the field of global health.
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The image is stark:
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It might be easy to assume that a former Senator, governor, U.S. presidential candidate and university president doesn't have much in common with his barber. But then again Terry Sanford wasn't your average politician, and David Fowler isn't your typical barber.
The University is considering mechanisms to better equate the experiences of Duke students with stratified socioeconomic backgrounds.
As the sun begins to rise, we hop onto a motorbike, my host brother mumbles a destination—it starts with a “K,” but all the towns sound alike—and we slowly inch onto the highway, weaving past the buses, vans and women wielding baskets atop their heads. As we creep onto the bumpy dirt road and I realize I have nothing to grasp onto because there are two passengers piled into the backseat, I close my eyes and hope that my life won’t end on a Kenyan motorcycle.
Former Duke University Police Department officer Webster Simmons will go to court next month on two felonious charges of rape and sodomy.
Update, 1:30 p.m. Glover's bond has since been lowered to $500,000.
After serving a nearly five-month term as interim vice president for finance, Tim Walsh will assume the position officially, effective immediately, the University announced Tuesday.