http://fds.duke.edu/db/news.html Duke University Faculty Database System News en-us Tue, 15 May 2012 17:09:21 EDT Duke University Faculty Database System 2000-01-01T00:00:00-0500 2 hourly http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-13-0-0-5265 On June 9th the University of Chicago will award an honorary Doctor of Science degree to Emeritus Prof. Bruce Nicklas. The degree recognizes Prof. Nicklas' work on the motion of chromosomes during cell division, Biology Tue, 15 May 2012 17:09:21 EDT Bruce Nicklas Honored by University of Chicago http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-92-0-0-5264 Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Mon, 14 May 2012 17:23:56 EDT Fall 2012 course "Colonial/Decolonial Aesthetics" taught by Prof. Deborah Jenson (Romance Studies/Haiti Lab) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (Haitian Artist and Mellon Visiting Professor) http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-13-0-0-5254 <P>Prof. Xinnian Dong has been elected to the elite National Academy of Scineces and will be inducted at its 150th annual meeting later this year.&nbsp; The National Academy was founded to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art" whenever called upon to do so by any department of the government.</P> <P><FONT size=4><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" color=#ff0000>Co</FONT><FONT color=#ffcc66>n</FONT><FONT color=#009900>g</FONT><FONT color=#009900>r</FONT><FONT color=#000099>at</FONT><FONT color=#663366>ul</FONT><FONT color=#000099>at</FONT><FONT color=#009900>io</FONT><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" color=#ffcc33>n</FONT><FONT color=#cc0000>s</FONT>, Xinnian!</FONT></P> Biology Thu, 03 May 2012 11:02:45 EDT Xinnian Dong Elected to National Academy of Sciences http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-13-0-0-5253 <P><FONT size=2>"<STRONG>Burgers and Flies</STRONG>:&nbsp; </FONT><FONT size=2>Inspired by Darwin, Mohamed Noor has uncovered the molecular dance by which a single species becomes two."</FONT></P> <P>Read the story to learn fascinating facts about our favorite fast-food addict, including&nbsp;how he did in college and his favorite way to unwind with his lab.&nbsp;</P> Biology Wed, 02 May 2012 17:15:55 EDT Mohamed Noor Profiled in The Scientist http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-92-0-0-5250 Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Mon, 14 May 2012 17:17:23 EDT Fall 2012 course "Visions of Haiti" taught by Prof Laurent Dubois (Romance Studies and History) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (Haitian Artist and Mellon Visiting Professor) http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-7-0-0-5245 are among those highlighted in a recent <a href="http://www.cendigital.org/cendigital/20120423?sub_id=7JAXxCqV5YCl&folio=11#pg13">Chemical and Engineering News review</a>. Chemistry Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:07:13 EDT The <a href="https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Chemistry/faculty/michael.c.fitzgerald">Fitzgerald Group's</a> mass spectrometry-based proteomics approaches http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-13-0-0-5244 Jamie Baldwin Fergus, who just completed her PhD in the Johnsen Lab, has been awarded a prestigious Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the National Museum of Natural History. Biology Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:27:55 EDT Jamie Baldwin Fergus wins Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-13-0-0-5241 <EM>American Scientist</EM> features grad student Courtney Fitzpatrick for her photography and essays about drought in Amboseli, Kenya. This month the Horse and Buggy Press will publish her limited-edition book, Biology Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:01:19 EDT Courtney Fitzpatrick Featured in American Scientist http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-7-0-0-5225 Congratulations to Drew Folk, from the <a href="http://www.chem.duke.edu/labs/franz/">Franz Lab</a>, for winning a Best Poster Prize at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego with his entry on "Visualizing Beta-Sectretase Activity in Cells with a Membrane Anchored FRET Probe". Chemistry Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:27:08 EDT Best Poster Prize http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-7-0-0-5220 Professor Weitao Yang, Duke's Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry, received the American Chemical Society's 2012 Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research at the national meeting in San Diego this March. He was honored for his landmark contributions Chemistry Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:34:53 EDT <a href="https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Chemistry/faculty/weitao.yang">Professor Weitao Yang</a> honored http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-7-0-0-5219 about the working cycle of a chaperone protein with unusual folding behavior. Read more <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867412001559">here</a>. Chemistry Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:59:01 EDT The <a href="http://www.chem.duke.edu/labs/fitzgerald/">Fitzgerald group</a> and collaborators publish in Cell http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-7-0-0-5204 expand the use of carbon nanotubes. Read more in <a href="http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v7/n2/full/nnano.2011.240.html">Nature Communications</a> and <a href="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n2/fig_tab/ncomms1682_F5.html ">Nature Nanotechnology</a>. Chemistry Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:41:45 EDT Two recent publications from <a href="http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jliu/labgroup/">Prof. Liu's group</a> http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-69-0-0-5197 <p>&nbsp;</p><p align="center"><img style="width: 380px; height: 240px;" src="http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj587/dcidmidp/IMG_1784.jpg" width="566" height="375"><div align="left">&nbsp;</div></p><p>On February 17th, six MIDP fellows presented the topic &#8220;Understanding Change in Contemporary Latin America&#8221; at the 2012 Duke-UNC Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean.&nbsp; Matias Arrau presented on &#8220;Different Dimensions of the Current Conflict over Education Policy in Chile,&#8221; Eduardo da Costa on &#8220;Recent Trends in Development Policy and Conflict in the Brazilian Amazon Region,&#8221; Johanna Kelly on &#8220;The Transformation of the Violence Profile in Colombia,&#8221; Rafaela Moura on &#8220;The Recent Rise of the Middle Class in Brazil,&#8221; Matias Zelikowicz on &#8220;Alternatives for Cuban Energy Supply to Reduce Dependency on Venezuelan Oil,&#8221; and Eduardo Marenco on &#8220;Innovative Journalism to Increase Awareness of Corruption in Nicaragua, Argentina, and Costa Rica.&#8221;&nbsp; The panel was organized and moderated by MIDP Professor Fernando Fernholz.&nbsp; Eduardo da Costa also coordinated the showing of the films <i>Children of the Amazon</i> and <i>Trading Bows and Arrows</i>, which depict stories of struggle and hope concerning the people and the environment of the Amazon.</p> Duke Center for International Development Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:49:08 EST MIDP Fellows Present at Duke-UNC Conference on Latin American and the Caribbean http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-69-0-0-5190 Francis Lethem and Jim Peacock, co-directors of the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center, discuss its objectives and achievements during an interview with UNC-TV on February 6, Duke Center for International Development Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:19:34 EST Duke-UNC Rotary Center TV Debut http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-69-0-0-5182 MIDP Alumna organizing major international conference in Brasilia to address the global problem of at least 8 million missing children. For further information, Duke Center for International Development Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:52:45 EST Finding the World's Missing Children http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-115-0-0-5240 The 2012 group swim lesson registration form is now online.&nbsp; Check out the&nbsp; <a href="http://facultyclub.duke.edu/swimming/swim_lessons.html" class="style2">Group Swim Lessons</span></a> page for more details. Duke Faculty Club Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:01:06 EDT Group swim lesson registration now available! http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-115-0-0-5181 The DFC is excited to present the latest updates to the Long Range Master Plan Project.&nbsp; Head to the the <a href="http://facultyclub.duke.edu/aboutus/master_plan.html" class="style2">Master Plan Project</a> page for more details. Duke Faculty Club Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:59:54 EST Check out the updates for the DFC Master Plan! http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-28-0-0-5135 <p>In January, Alan Gelfand delivered the 15th P. C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lectures – seven lectures over two weeks in three cities (Kolkata, Delhi, Bengaluru). These lectures honor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder of the <a href="http://www.isical.ac.in/">Indian Statistical Institute</a> and pioneering contributor to statistical theory and methodology in sample survey work and in multivariate analysis. Previous winners include Samuel Karlin, Sir David Cox, Peter Hall, and Jim Berger.</p> </p>Dr. Gelfand also presented the Presidenti al Invited Lecture at the 22nd annual meeting of <a href="http://www.environmetrics.org/">The International Environmetrics Society</a> (TIES2012) in Hyderabad.</p> Statistical Science Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:16:21 EST Dr. Alan Gelfand delivers 15th P. C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lectures http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-115-0-0-5130 Registration is now open for the 2012 Summer and Tennis Camps. Click on the "Camps" link above for more information. Duke Faculty Club Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:52:33 EST 2012 Summer & Tennis Camp registration now available http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-69-0-0-5028 In a <i>USA Today</i> article Friday, December 9, 2011, on the potential role of economists in determining the European Union&#8217;s future, Sandra Block quotes DCID faculty member Tony Elson regarding examples of economists who were successfully called to lead their country during fiscal crises. Duke Center for International Development Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:48:53 EST DCID faculty Tony Elson quoted in USA Today http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-69-0-0-4981 Collaboration between civilian organizations and the military is crucial in providing support to fragile and post-conflict areas, panelists said Thursday evening.<br /> <br />Representatives from military and developmental civilian groups discussed both the challenges and potential benefits of working together in relief operations. Duke Center for International Development Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:40:38 EST Panelists address NGO-military relations in post-conflict situations http://fds.duke.edu/db?listnews-69-469-0-4978 <img src="http://sanford.duke.edu/centers/dcid/images/daCostaAmazon2011.JPG" title="Children of the Amazon talk"/>Bringing the concerns of local peoples in the Amazon forest to students at Duke has been a passion for MIDP&#8260;Rotary fellow Eduardo da Costa. Eduardo, Duke Center for International Development Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:59:11 EST Children of the Amazon &#8211; a Discussion with MIDP and Rotary Peace Fellow Eduardo da Costa