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As obesity is increasingly plaguing the nation, the Duke Diet and Fitness Center continues to combat this problem by employing health psychology methods, addressing nutritional issues and incorporating exercise routines to help generate weight loss.
As a response to an increased incidence of HIV at universities in the Triangle, the state of North Carolina has extended its offer to cover HIV testing to Duke students.
Two-and-a-half years after nurses voted against unionization, Hospital administrators said the environment for nurses has improved, but that they are still looking for ways to satisfy nurses' needs.
Although the number of applicants to the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences remained the same in 2003 after jumping nearly 16 percent in 2002, administrators continue to hope for further increases like those seen last year in order to raise the quality of graduate students accepted to their program.
Two years ago, as newly inaugurated President George W. Bush was describing his opposition to the Kyoto climate change treaty, the Center on Global Change was little more than a glimmer in the eye of Duke environmental scientists. Since then, the interdisciplinary center has grown into a catalyst for ecological forecasting, focusing its resources on developing new and innovative ways of addressing environmental problems.
Many critics have derided what they call President George W. Bush's lax environmental standards, and now a national panel of scientists--including Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences Dean William Schlesinger--has issued a report attacking the administration's climate change research plan.
This is the fifth story in a five-part series profiling this year's candidates for Duke Student Government president.
After years of struggling with arbitrary and often inferior compensation, Duke postdoctoral fellows have succeeded in creating an interdepartmental alliance to lobby for their concerns. The University formally recognized the Duke University Postdoctoral Association, founded in the fall of 2001, with an award of $53,600 to provide postdocs with their own leadership structure and program funding.
Student leaders in both the School of Medicine and the overall graduate and professional school community are searching together for ways to bridge a long-standing systemic divide between two student governing bodies.
After spending last year evaluating candidates for open positions in the Medical Center and helping the administration review the School of Medicine's unique curriculum, the Davison Council, the medical school's student government, is bringing its focus back to community service.
Imagine a cancer treatment that leaves you back on your feet in a day with no nausea, no hair loss or any equally adverse side effects.
