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35807
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The interview with this Big Band leader revealed his musical beginnings in the late 1930s with his band, the Duke Blue Devils, and his first musical influence, his father, a music teacher. Illustrations of an illustrious career included giving Doris Day her first opportunity as a band singer and touring overseas with Bob Hope for almost two decades. As for the musical genre he played, he was optimistic about its enduring popularity with modern audiences.
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28039
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“The Theme is Blackness” Festival was recently curated by Duke’s Theater Studies faculty. The event is a way to encourage diversity in theater. The number of minority students who participate in Duke’s Theater programs is approximately 10 percent and the department has not had any black directors of plays over the last 15 years. This year, the festival premiered a play produced by a black director and used a NC Arts Council grant to foster black stage designers. The festivals plays are intended to celebrate blackness and push audiences to consider issues of race.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 45, November 2010,
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35915
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Illustrated were aspiring political cartoonists such as John Pope, UNC-G; Gene Dees, NC State; Dan Brady, UNC-CH; Chuck Wojtkiewkz, Duke. As for their collective source of inspiration, highlighted was two time Pulitzer winner and creator of the “Shoe” comic, Jeff MacNelly.
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26983
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The Duke Child Care Coalition is a group of students, staff and faculty urging administration to provide affordable, flexible day care for the Duke community. They argue that by saving money on day care, Duke could lose students and tuition revenue. Duke will consider but not commit to opening a day care.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 6 Issue 20, Oct 20-Nov 2 1988,
p6, por
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40615
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A Duke University researcher became a whistleblower when suspecting that a colleague’s research results were skewed. The case became a reminder as to how often data is manipulated, why researchers may feel pressured to include false data, and why research integrity is crucial.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 39 Issue 8, August 2019,
p56-63
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35353
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Among the accomplishments of Dr. Charmaine Royal were leadership of Duke University’s Center for Genomics, Race, Identity, and Difference. According to Stephanie Cobert, what GRID explored were the intersection of factors such as biology and race. It also explored how the concept of race impacts medicine, science, and society.
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Afro-American workers at Duke University charge that the firing of a black bus transportation supervisor is yet another indication that the school treats them differently from other employees. School officials say he was fired for not following orders.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 14 Issue 1, Jan 1996,
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34177
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Duke University has established a center dedicated to the study of the ecology and management of wetlands. Among the issues to be examined is how to manage wetland ecosystems to sustain functional ecological processes and habitats while allowing compatible development on adjacent landscapes.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 264, July/Aug 1990,
p8
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9.Duke Symphony on Rise under New Reins by Vleck, Philip Van Metro Magazine Vol. 2 Issue 9, Dec 2001
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35399
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Harry Davidson inherited an orchestra desperately in need of leadership to develop its potential. His shared secrets of success included Mozart and Haydn as teaching tools for students and a passion for teaching. By year three of his leadership, faculty and students’ heightened morale inspired Davidson to start planning programs by the season rather than the concert.
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27506
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The struggle over innovation versus tradition is playing out at Duke University. Duke’s chapter of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) opposes some of the “radical” ideas the English Department is teaching. While some say the argument is over curriculum, others suggest the NAS is more concerned with the salaries as they believe the English Department is taking money away from their programs. Regardless, the fight has made some professors nervous that the attention will make them justify and defend what they do and teach.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 8 Issue 48, Nov. 28- Dec. 4 1990,
p7-11
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28355
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Duke Energy and ConocoPhillips have donated 3.5 million dollars to Duke University’s Climate Change Policy Partnership (CCPP) and that financial support may have influenced public policy. The money may have influenced members of the CCPP’s advisory panel and affected its the ability to vet climate policy research before it is released to the public. Anti-regulatory policy statements have been published under the CCPP’s name and critics say that its research has been skewed because of the two companies support.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 49, December 2007,
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145
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Duke University library is home to the largest advertising archives in the nation, and is fast becoming a center for academic research in advertising history.
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24348
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Duke University Medical Center is the cutting edge location for heart surgery. This article examines the costs of operations and who ends up paying for them.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 7, July 1991,
p24-35, il
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27266
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The Duke immersive Virtual Environment, or DiVE, is a cyber-archaeology project funded by the Brazilian government and made for education and research, in collaboration with archaeologists at the University of São Paulo. The goal is for archaeologists to be able to experience a site without going there, and to have the ability to compare side-by-side different stages in an expedition.
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35246
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This is a transcribed speech that was said at the 50th North Carolina Folklore Society meeting concerning the speaker’s relationship with a professor at Duke University known as Bull Brown.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 12 Issue 1, July 1964,
p22-26
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