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(04/22/10 8:00am)
As final exams approach, it may be difficult for undergraduates to fathom pleasure reading. But more than 230 members of the Duke community tuned in Wednesday night to a webcast of the DukeReads book of the month.
(04/13/10 8:00am)
If critically acclaimed author Jonathan Safran Foer adheres to one writing rule, it is to avoid any rules on writing.
(04/12/10 8:00am)
As the battle over the potential harmfulness of high fructose corn syrup wages on, a study led by a Duke researcher has lent its support to the growing accord that increased fructose intake is detrimental to health.
(04/02/10 8:00am)
Two Duke students are among the 278 students nationwide to receive the 2010 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in science, mathematics and engineering.
(03/30/10 12:33pm)
Education is always at the forefront of political discussion, and even more so in times of economic crisis.
(03/26/10 8:00am)
Students may soon have a say in the addition or removal of residential groups.
(03/19/10 8:00am)
The best guide to future battles over taxes may be the past, said New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt.
(03/04/10 10:00am)
Duke Raleigh Hospital is one of four health care providers competing to build operating rooms in Wake County.
(02/26/10 10:00am)
By combining cutting-edge technology with disease-specific populations, the Duke Clinical Research Unit may provide a novel basis for understanding and treating medical illnesses.
(02/19/10 10:00am)
Throw a burning couch out of a window and lose points.
(02/10/10 10:00am)
Tuesday night, the general student body voted on an undergraduate Young Trustee for the first time. After 2,169 votes were cast, senior John Harpham was elected by the narrowest of margins.
(02/05/10 10:00am)
When Kathy Walmer arrived in earthquake-stricken Haiti at the end of January, a highway bypass functioned as a makeshift airstrip.
Although atypical travel experiences like this may be familiar to Walmer, the executive director of Family Health Ministries, they may be unsettling for Duke undergraduates planning on going to the country for the first time.
Family Health Ministries, a Durham-based nonprofit, partnered with the Duke Global Health Institute and DukeEngage to take eight students to Léogâne, Haiti last summer. But Sumi Ariely, student projects coordinator for DGHI, said concerns about available landing strips, student safety and the potential burden non-specialized volunteers may cause, could ground this year’s trip before takeoff.
“If it’s safe and they can use us, we want to be there,” said DukeEngage director Eric Mlyn.
The International Travel Oversight Committee, of which Mlyn is a member, added Haiti to its restricted regions list for travel Jan. 23
Mlyn said the ITOC must consider travel safety, availability of medical facilities and housing stability in determining whether to remove Haiti from the restricted regions list. ITOC will also consider advice from organizations such as the U.S. State Department, the British Foreign Services and International SOS.
“We do not wish to inhibit good faith intentions of our students to contribute to the support and rehabilitation efforts in the country. For that reason the International Travel Committee will reassess the situation, and the restriction, on a daily basis as we receive word from colleagues on the ground in Haiti,” said Christy Parrish-Michels, manager of global administrative support for the Office of International Strategy.
Ariely said DGHI will have to decide by mid-March whether the joint DukeEngage and DGHI trip to Haiti will continue as planned. Any logistical issues, such as the time it takes to get travel visas, would become another obstacle.
“We are working with the hopeful assumption that the program will continue,” Ariely said.
DukeEngage has already selected this summer’s eight participating students, and if the trip happens as planned, students will work to reduce the safety issues associated with pregnancy, said Dr. David Walmer, founder of Family Health Ministries and Kathy Walmer’s husband.
Freshman Julie Rivo, one of the eight participants, became interested in Haiti because her community in Miami has a large Haitian population. Her interest has increased while taking Haitian Creole for the Haitian Recovery this Spring.
Rivo said that when she was accepted to the trip, she set aside her summer to address women’s health care needs in Haiti.
“Some people like me have not applied to other programs because they knew they were doing DukeEngage,” Rivo said.
But program administrators have assured the DukeEngage students that officials will create another program for them if they cannot go to Haiti, Rivo said.
Even if this summer’s program cannot go forward, DGHI supplements its international work with Durham-based relief efforts, said Geelea Seaford, assistant director of communication at DGHI. She added that such efforts could include focusing the 2011 winter forum on Haiti.
Ariely said these are just some examples of DGHI’s commitment to Haiti.
“We’ve been there for the long haul, we’re going to be there for the long haul,” Ariely said.
(01/28/10 10:00am)
Although Curriculum 2000 has been simplified since its debut a decade ago, faculty and administrators still see room for improvement.
(01/19/10 10:00am)
It is well known that Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream. But Ariel Dorfman thinks grapes have dreams too.
(01/14/10 10:00am)
This Spring, food delivery options could double for students willing to buy food from restaurants that are not a part of the Merchants on Points program.
(11/23/09 10:00am)
Success can be defined in many ways. Terry Allebaugh, executive director of Housing for New Hope, defines it as having your name on a lease.
(11/11/09 10:00am)
A Duke professor is responding to the journalism industry’s SOS signal.
(11/06/09 10:00am)
Although Maine voters made their state the 31st to reject gay marriage Tuesday, members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community are optimistic about gaining recognition in the 2010 census—the first to count same-sex couples.
(10/30/09 8:00am)
Some of the hardest battles of Operation Iraqi Freedom were fought in Washington, D.C., Meghan O’Sullivan noted in her speech at the Sanford School of Public Policy Thursday night.
(09/28/09 8:00am)
Two anesthetized mice lie on a laboratory table, separated by a wooden partition. Someone suspected to have psychic healing abilities attempts to wake up one of the mice with his mind.