Professor implements innovative teaching techniques
(12/07/09 10:00am)
When it comes to teaching, David Needham avoids convention.
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When it comes to teaching, David Needham avoids convention.
At its weekly meeting Tuesday night, Duke University Union received a special visit.
After adding Nosh and Mad Hatter’s to Merchants on Points earlier this month, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee considered making more changes to the MOP program at its meeting Monday night.
At its second meeting of the year Tuesday, leaders of the Duke University Union brainstormed strategies to get new members involved in more than one committee and take initiative immediately. DUU officers also expressed desire to create a more cohesive feel within the organization.
Although some commercial operations may be seeing slowed traffic in a bad economy, business is booming for Sam Poley.
Around 10 a.m. today, junior Brittany Duck will head to the Lobby Shop in the Bryan Center to buy her morning Red Bull.
The Ponzi scheme of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff may have ripple effects on moral behavior, according to recent research published by Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics.
Duke Raleigh Hospital is now part of an exclusive club.
Fortune has smiled on Alaina Pleatman.
Those who celebrated Valentine's Day this weekend may have found it difficult to supress their love for significant others-after all, researchers have found that love is an addiction that cannot be fought.
Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of behavioral economics, conducts research focusing on the neural mechanisms behind human decision making, and in particular the irrational decisions that humans make every day. He is author of the best-seller "Predictably Irrational," published in February of last year, which challenges decisions based on rational thought and explores human decision making through a variety of social experiments. Ariely has also conducted much of his research at Duke, particularly on undergraduate and graduate students.
In today's changing world, it is going to take more than an economics major to succeed in business and get ahead.
Valentino Achak Deng, the protaganist of this year's summer reading "What is the What" by Dave Eggers, was expected to speak at Duke Homecoming Weekend two weekends ago, but cancelled and has no plans to come to campus in the near future, said Todd Adams, associate dean of students and director of new student and family programs.
As part of the ongoing reaccreditation process, which takes place every 10 years, members of the Arts and Sciences Council discussed developments on the University's Quality Enhancement Plan Thursday afternoon.
You log onto Facebook and see 10 newly tagged pictures of you and your friends drinking beers and riding the bull at Shooters. You scan the photos to make sure you look good in each one and leave them up for your friends to see how much fun you had over the weekend.
Adolescents across the country can now feasibly argue with their parents to allow them to play video games more often, as new methods of physical therapy are integrating consoles like the Nintendo Wii into their treatment.