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In their first public interviews, the three members of the 2005-2006 men's lacrosse team indicted for raping an exotic dancer strongly defended their innocence Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes."
With the arrival of today's final deadline for voting registration, Duke Students for an Ethical Durham have done their part to register as many students as possible.
The Times Higher Education Supplement once again included Duke among the top universities in the world, placing the University 13th in its annual global rankings released last week.
Administrators introduced a revised proposal for the new Central Campus at the Board of Trustees meeting Saturday, and the trustees gave the University support to begin the next stage of planning.
Although it won't open until December, the French Family Science Center has already made a physical mark on West Campus-one that only hints at the magnitude of the effect the facility will have on the University upon its completion.
For months, allegations of rape surrounding the men's lacrosse team splashed across the headlines of the country's most prominent publications, from Newsweek to The New York Times.
With many of the recommendations fulfilled from the Women's Initiative--completed in 2003 under former University President Nan Keohane--a new phase is set to begin this year in the realm of women's issues on campus.
When the residents in the basement of Craven House VO returned to their dorm rooms Monday night, they were met with an unpleasant stench.
A fire of unknown origin scorched a laboratory on the second floor of the Nanaline H. Duke Building Monday morning, causing students and workers to evacuate, University officials confirmed.
Despite an upward trend in the number of campus tours during the last couple years, Duke saw a significant decline in summer tours, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag confirmed Tuesday.
The popular First-Year Advisory Counselor program, often considered a vital part of Duke's vaunted "first-year experience," has for years ushered freshmen into their first days on campus.
After waiting through four years of renovation and construction, members of the Catholic Student Center will find a new home this month in the Falcone-Arena House off East Campus.
Carrying black may soon save you some green.
In an effort to expedite the development of an HIV vaccine, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced in late July it would give 16 grants, totaling $287 million, to researchers around the world-with Duke receiving a portion of the funds. Along with research institutes from more than a dozen countries, Duke will receive two of the 16 grants, totalling $46.5 million, said David Montefiori, a principal investigator for one of Duke's grants. Montefiori explained that the new Gates Foundation gift was designed to address two "high-priority" areas in the global campaign to develop an HIV vaccine: trial vaccine discovery and improving laboratory standardization to analyze candidate vaccines. "We have all been frustrated by the slow pace of progress in HIV vaccine development, yet breakthroughs are achievable if we aggressively pursue scientific leads and work together in new ways," Dr. José Esparza, senior advisor on HIV vaccines for the Gates Foundation, said in a July 19 statement. The group of grant-funded consortia-which are known as the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery-will include 165 investigators from 19 countries, and the Gates' emphasis on cooperation makes the initiative unique among similar projects. "All of these groups are expected to work together and collaborate with one another, and that's really never been done before," Montefiori said. Eleven of the grant-funded consortia will concentrate on candidate vaccine discovery, and the remaining five grants will establish central laboratories to analyze and standardize the research conducted from those projects. The two programs at Duke-each focusing on one of these two priorities-will participate in this research partnership, Montefiori said. The first grant project, led by Montefiori, will focus on laboratory standardization. Its work will be funded with $31.5 million received from the Gates grant-the second largest of the 16 grants, he said. Principal investigator Barton Haynes, director of the University's Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, will lead the team of investigators working for vaccine discovery. Its specific grant from the Gates Foundation totalled $15 million. As part of the Gates Foundation's plan, collaboration will take place between the two programs working at Duke. "[Haynes] will send us the blood samples from those tests to see if they're neutralizing antibodies," Montefiori said. "Part of what my grant will do is to provide this type of service for all of the vaccine discovery groups that are in the CAVD." Montefiori's group will work to provide valid lab criteria in order to judge the potential of candidate HIV vaccines in their early stages. "It's important to be able to compare these vaccines on a level playing field to determine whether one might be better than another," he said. "That will allow us to decide which of these candidate vaccines are most deserving of advancing to human clinical trials." Co-investigators will include fellow faculty members Marcella Sarzotti-Kelsoe, Georgia Tomaras, Guido Ferrari, Norman Chen and Feng Gao. Haynes' research, on the other hand, will be one of the projects that feeds candidate vaccines for testing to laboratories like Montefiori's. This second grant-funded project hopes to find ways to "switch on" the human immune system's ability to make antibodies that are effective against HIV. Scientists will work with researchers from Zambia to study a less virulent form of the virus.
Long past are the days when incoming freshmen could rely on nothing more than campus visits, brief phone calls with an assigned roommate and bloated orientation packets as a means of picturing their future college experience.
A couple months after the release of the Campus Life and Learning report--an in-depth study of undergraduate life at Duke--administrators and campus leaders are still reviewing how the information will be used.
Members of the Class of 2010 will begin their college careers with what officials hope to be a more relaxed, welcoming freshman orientation.
When Luis Pastor's wife came to Durham to earn her MBA from the Fuqua School of Business, Pastor tagged along.
While a majority of students are scattered across the globe-immersing themselves in summer internships or volunteer projects-construction workers have continued to work on campus and expect to put the finishing touches on a number of major construction projects before students return in the fall.
The University recently made public the first half of the Campus Life and Learning report-a major study of undergraduate student life at Duke.
