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Fundraising is about to begin for
the revised Bryan
Center walkway, a 40,000-square-foot plaza
connecting the center with
West Union and Page Auditorium and providing
gathering and performance
space. [more]
Professor of English Joseph A. Porter shares an Allen Building office — and a life — with highly praised novelist Joe Ashby Porter. Each helps the other with his work. [more]
Lucy Corin T'92 dropped out of Duke's theater program because she was spending too much time writing. Now she teaches fiction writing, thanks in part to a "hands-off" teacher who encouraged her prose. [more]
has been named Appointed Professeur Associé, Université Paris 7, for June, 2005.
has been awarded the 2005 Knox College Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater. The Department of Chemistry is pleased to congratulate Prof. Crumbliss on his recognition.
Pre-Major Advising Center Director Michele Rasmussen G'99 knows whereof she speaks when she tells first-year students they're unlikely to stay in one job for all of their working lives. [more]
in the Journal of Physical Chemistry, B. Using a
combination of experimental and theoretical
techniques, the researchers identify the
structural aspects of the transport protein human
serum albumin that are responsible for binding the
fungal food contaminant ochratoxin A. The study
will further the understanding of the biological
fate of ingested ochratoxin A, whose toxicity has
been linked to kidney disease.
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the whole article.
The American Institute of Chemists chose Prof. Eric Jacobsen [Harvard], and Prof. Michael Pirrung [Duke] as this year's Chemical Pioneer Award winners. The awards were presented at a luncheon at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia in June. The Chemical Pioneer Award recognizes chemists, chemical engineers, or their associates who have made outstanding contributions which have had a major impact on advances in chemical science and industry and/or the chemical profession. This award was first given in 1966, is now given in alternate years, and has been awarded to 13 Nobel laureates among many distinguished chemists. Recent recipients of the award include:
Dr. Gerald Jaouen (2002)
Dr. John Margave (2002)
Dr. Julius Rebek (2002)
Dr. Richard A. Adams (2000)
Dr. Robert Bergman (2000)
Dr. Larry Dahl (2000)
Dr. Kenner Rice (2000)
Dr. John E. Bercaw (1998)
Dr. Stephen J. Benkovic (1998)
Dr. Albert I. Myers (1998)
Dr. Geogory R. Choppin (1997)
Dr. Attila E. Pavlath (1997)
Dr. Jerrold Meinwald (1997)
Dr. Murray Goodman (1997)
sponsored by PLU. Saturday, Nov. 6, 12:00 p.m., Chemistry Portico.
Pilot program hopes to attract upperclassmen with
seminars - Exploring the Mind II
Focus Reaches Past Freshmen, featured in
The Chronicle on September 17, 2004.
The Duke chemists, working in collaboration with University of California scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, have recently grown a world record length, four centimeter long, single-walled carbon nanotube. Carbon nanotubes are widely recognized as a promising candidates for future nanoscale electronics and materials applications.
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has joined the Chemistry faculty and will serve as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences beginning on July 1, 2004.
Awards for excellence in research went to Cong Liu (Procter & Gamble Summer Fellowship), Zhenyu Lu (William Krigbaum Award), Ping Li (Paul M. Gross Award), and Farrell Kersey (Joe Taylor Adams Award). The Pelham Wilder Teaching Awards went to Victoria Dowling and Will Case. Congratulations to these student recipients of the 2004 Chemistry Department Graduate Student Fellowships for their outstanding performance in research and teaching.
has been awarded a prestigious Lectureship from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan.
George B. Geller Professor, will assume the position of Vice Provost for Academic Affairs beginning January 1, 2005.
First Exposures to Interdisciplinarity (PDF), from the April/May 2004 InterConnection: Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke
Since its inception 11 years ago, the FOCUS program has become highly praised by faculty and staff and increasingly popular among students. University administrators are now considering adding a spring FOCUS program for first-year students--a move that would almost certainly be beneficial to students and should be experimented with.