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(05/20/99 4:00am)
About 2,000 experiments at the Medical Center ground to a halt for four days last week when the federal government imposed a temporary ban on enrolling human subjects in research. The Office for Protection from Research Risks cited a host of organizational and administrative problems in Duke's procedures for approving human research projects, making the Medical Center the first major academic research institution to ever receive such a suspension.
(04/23/99 4:00am)
This is the fifth in a five-part series examining emergency trauma care at Duke and in the community.
(04/16/99 4:00am)
Bomb threats, vandalism, razor blades concealed in envelopes and kidnapping attempts on his three daughters have become increasingly common for Colin Blakemore.
(04/06/99 4:00am)
Chris Sullivan never expected that a phone call from his old college roommate would lead to "Pilgrim's Pride," the "Presidential Pardon" or the "Pole Vault," but a whimsical idea nonetheless led to the birth of Alpine Bagels, a Nashville-based chain that has had the University community buzzing since it arrived in August.
(03/26/99 5:00am)
The expression "Hold the phone" is becoming a bit more literal lately.
(02/17/99 5:00am)
"And quick, quick and slow...."
(02/11/99 5:00am)
Amid the high-tech lasers and stainless steel optics tables of the University's free-electron laser lab, art conservator Adele de Cruz hovers over a 14th-century style Madonna painting. Its beauty is buried beneath resilient dirt, but not for long. For de Cruz, fusing centuries-old masterpieces with up-to-the-minute technology is all in a day's work.
(12/01/98 5:00am)
Eazy E. Arthur Ashe. Perry Ellis. Robert Reed. Keith Haring. Ryan White.
(10/30/98 5:00am)
Marty Ravellette, a resident of Carrboro, was really thinking on his feet when he saved 86-year old Elma Snedeker from a burning van alongside U.S. 15-501 Bypass in Durham earlier this month. Born armless, Ravellette used his foot to smash a van window so his wife could unlock the door and save the elderly woman.
(10/16/98 4:00am)
"Plan B." "Create-Your-Own-Major." "Operation: Avoiding Requirements." While University students have bandied about these phrases to describe a highly regarded but underexposed alternative to Program I, those in the know think these phrases are poor descriptions. Program II, which allows students to avoid declaring a typical "major" by proposing an entirely new curriculum, is the simple name for a complex four-year agenda.
(09/29/98 4:00am)
Well-spoken and expressive, English professor Jane Tompkins hardly seems the stressed-out, self-absorbed individual she claims she once was. After teaching at Columbia University and the City University of New York, Tompkins arrived at Duke to do what most professors do: run from meeting to meeting, prepare lectures and work her way up in the ranks of academic scholarship.
(09/16/98 4:00am)
As recent graduates prepare to head to college, they face many choices: blue sheets or white sheets? Flip-flops or adidas sandals for the shower? Scrap college altogether or turn down a six-figure salary?
(04/17/98 4:00am)
The wheels on the bus go round and round, and thus far, so have the discussions between city and University officials about a potential merger between the Durham Area Transit Authority and Duke Transit.
(03/31/98 5:00am)
Such were the words of Trinity sophomore Jillian Woodruff in a group journal for the HIV and AIDS volunteer trip for the University's Break for a Change organization.
(02/24/98 5:00am)
"Jesus steps into our 'Just fine, thank you' lives, and slaps us in the face. Look at where we're sitting. Duke Chapel: a place just teeming with those blessed poor. [Laughter]. We don't pronounce woe upon our rich and powerful. We bury them in the side chapel. We're Duke students, we're on the fast track to somewhere, we're plugged into the system. We hear Jesus, and we assertive, confident-dare I say-arrogant, students feel compelled to give this Jesus an answer..."
(02/18/98 5:00am)
With less than four months until the Democratic senatorial primary in May, the campaign has begun to shape itself around the three main candidates-one of whom will eventually challenge the Republican incumbent, Senator Lauch Faircloth.
(02/09/98 5:00am)
al.ter/na.tive: (adj.) nontraditional or unconventional, as in ideas or methods
(11/18/97 5:00am)
The wheels of the DSG shuttles will keep on turning.
(11/11/97 5:00am)
Kids these days are-who are we?/We work and reach for the day/The day we can be like you/So maybe the question is not/Who are we-and who should we be-But who are you?"
(11/10/97 5:00am)
With the implementation of the online reserve system in October 1996, accessing photocopied reserve articles from dorm rooms and campus clusters became a more convenient method for students to finish reading assignments and, in some cases, eliminated costly course packs.
