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The beginning of Spring semester kicks off the summer internship and post-graduation job search, and the stress can take quite a toll on the student body.
Visiting scholar Dr. Muhammad Pate, Fuqua '06 and the former Nigerian Minister of State for Heath, will co-teach the graduate course “Health Systems in Developing Countries” next semester. Additionally, he will serve as a mentor to undergraduates in the new global health major, as well as contributing to the University-wide Africa Initiative. The Chronicle’s Lucy Hicks talked to Pate about his work and plans for next semester.
Duke, the University of Miami and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution recently received a $16 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study oceanic currents.
Karin Reuter-Rice, assistant professor at the School of Nursing, was awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholar award Sept. 13 to continue her research on blood vessel spasms in pediatric intensive care unit patients. Her research focuses on vasospasms, conditions in which a blood vessel’s spasm or contraction leads to narrowing of blood vessels that can cause brain damage in the patient. Using a transcranial doppler ultrasound machine, she is able to track blood flow velocity in a patient’s brain to see if they are experiencing vasospasm. The Chronicle’s Lucy Hicks sat down with Professor Reutor-Rice and discussed her award and the future of nursing.
A recent Duke study found that listing nutritional information in a mobile format could help encourage healthy eating.Although many restaurants list calorie information on their venues, the study suggests that putting such information on websites and mobile apps may be more successful in preventing overeating. The study, funded by the Duke Obesity Prevention Program, surveyed websites of the top 100 U.S. chain restaurants to determine the availability of calorie information on each site. Although 82 percent of the restaurants provided calorie information online, only 25 percent of these websites were available in a mobile format, which may limit consumers from accessing nutritional information when they're on the go.“It’s important for people trying to lose weight to evaluate calories before they enter restaurant in the first place,” said lead author Gary Bennett, director of undergraduate studies at the Duke Global Health Institute.When people have already entered a store, calorie information might not be a deterrent to eating unhealthy foods, Bennett said. Creating a stronger mobile presence could therefore lead to healthier dieting.Although calorie information is more widely available on the Internet, increasing access to calorie information via mobile devices could also aid economically disadvantaged populations who are more likely to access the internet through their mobile devices, Bennett said, who explained that smartphone data plans are less expensive than broadband and sometimes a preferred option for these families.Formatting calorie information for mobile websites could potentially benefit the general population as well.“We suspect that for many consumers they might be interested in checking the caloric information when they are outside of their house and they are considering restaurants to choose from,” Bennett added.Inconsistencies in nutritional presentation across menus can also impact consumer behavior.Restaurants themselves determine which menu options are deemed healthy, which does not take into consideration the varying health needs of different people. For example, an overweight but otherwise healthy person would consider a low-calorie meal healthy, but consumers with additional health concerns may not fit this mentality, said Elisabetta Politi, nutrition director at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center."When it's really left up to the industry to make decisions about what foods are healthful, the variability makes it difficult for consumers to make purchasing decisions," Bennett said.Additionally, the study found that less than half of the surveyed companies presented a separate section identifying healthier menu options.“There are so many different parameters to judge healthy options,” Politi wrote in a Tuesday email. “Are you overweight but healthy and you need to lose weight? Calories are most important. Do you have diabetes? Carbohydrate content of the food is as important as calorie information.”Politi said a healthy option at any chain would be a meal under 600 calories with less than six grams of fat, 800mg of sodium and 45-60 grams of carbohydrates.Implementing a universal format to compare foods in these restaurant chains could definitely help consumers make more informed and health decisions, said co-author Dori Steinberg, a postdoctorial associate at the Duke Global Health institute.“More and more Americans are eating outside of the home, so working with restaurants to figure out how we can help consumers choose healthier options is really important,” Steinberg said. “Potentially offering them that information on mobile websites and on websites before they get to the restaurant could be really helpful for planning purposes.”
Stricter Environmental Protection Agency regulations could steer the energy market away from coal, according to a recent Duke study.
If you are looking for a good movie to see with your parents or grandparents, I recommend 42. With a meaningful and educational story, it is ideal for an afternoon with the family but probably not for your next date. (And yes, I did see this with my grandparents.)
A team of Duke scientists is pushing the boundaries of knowledge about sea turtles caught by commercial fishing processes.
Government budget cuts may decrease available funding for research organizations such as the Duke Lemur Center and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, along with basic research at Duke.
In today’s world many older American music traditions have fallen into the background. Southern blues, once one of the most important music genres in North Carolina, is now only rarely acknowledged as a genre by a younger generation of music listeners. The Music Maker Relief Foundation has been working to bring attention back to Southern blues, a genre that has both directly and indirectly inspired many of the styles of music that we hear today, said Tim Duffy, founder and executive director of Music Maker. “Musicians are constantly looking toward the South for inspiration,” he added.
A bias against oil and nuclear energy as fuel sources is impeding industrial progress, said Alex Epstein, Trinity ’02, in a panel discussion Wednesday.
The West Union Building renovation is slated to enhance the structure with unprecedented access for students with disabilities.
The neurology division of the School of Medicine will become its own department this summer, which should improve its ability to recruit faculty and students, administrators said.
Students should not forgo discussions about sex with their partner before actually making the decision to do it, a counselor from Counseling and Psychological Services said in a talk on Friday.
Duke graduate students will be able to earn a global health certificate, starting this Fall.
The image of “the artist” has become a universal trope—free-spirited, impulsive, unpredictable. The recent exhibit at the Center for Advanced Hindsight, headed by professor of behavioral economics Dan Ariely, challenges this notion with the installment Restraining Order: The Art of Self-Control. Twenty-six local artists participated in the exhibition and reflected on self-control through their work in both written and visual forms. Over the allotted two months of the project, Ariely requested weekly pictures of the developing pieces, documenting the progress and requiring the artists to incorporate self-discipline in their artistic process. Many of the participants were returning artists from the center’s previous exhibitions “Creative Dishonesty: Cheat Codes” and “Poor Quality: Inequality.”
Less invasive surgery at earlier stages of breast cancer has been correlated with higher rates of patient survival.
For students who demand intelligence not just from their peers but from their houses, Duke has just the place to live.
Schaefer Theater bustles as directors and managers make their final changes to both the stage and sound only five minutes before the show. “Can you turn the saxophone up?” calls the music director to the soundboard above. She continues to make small tweaks before disappearing behind a black curtain. The stage is split—one side of the theater is made to look like an old hotel room, decorated with a tired mattress and desk accompanying faded green and white walls. On the opposite stage is an elevated platform, the setting entirely black barring a sign that hangs from the catwalk, which flashes CAB-A-RET.
A higher percentage of universities in the United States will see decreased enrollment and tuition revenue in the 2013 fiscal year, according to a survey released in January by Moody’s Investors Service.
