2007-08 Annual
Fund Goals
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Your Annual Fund Gifts Help . . .
• Support the 45% of Duke students on financial aid
• Fund Duke's pioneering Focus program for first-year students
• Subsidize student research projects
• Finance the library system's journal and database subscriptions
• Provide tutoring services for students
• Facilitate interdisciplinary research and programming
• Pay for lab equipment and computer needs
• Subsidize cultural programming and lecture series
• Cover faculty salaries
• Enhance academic programs
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Annual
Fund
Highlights
Reunions Weekend 2008 was a great success! Many thanks to the nearly 450 Reunion Gift Committee volunteers for their leadership and support. As a result of their great work, the ten reunion classes presented President Brodhead with Annual Fund reunion gifts totaling more than $10 million.
The Classes of 1958, 1993, 1998, and 2003 surpassed their respective Annual Fund goals, and the Class of 1973 set a new 35th reunion gift record. The Class of 1983 is well on its way to setting an all-time reunion gift record, and we still have until June 30 before counting stops, so keep up the great work! You can monitor reunion gift progress here.
Thanks also to the volunteers working with the Parents' Program, the Senior Gift Campaign, and the Young Alumni Program. The Annual Fund is a tremendous group effort, and I'm glad to have so many wonderful Dukies working with us. Thanks for your support.
Yours for
Duke,
Hank Woods
Director, Duke Annual Fund
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University
Highlights
Duke Alumni Celebrate Reunions Weekend
More than 3,700 alumni and guests returned to campus for Reunions Weekend 2008. You can view a sampling of pictures, download a screensaver, or order pictures from the many reunion events at the link below. And if your class is celebrating a reunion next year, mark your calendar for April 17-19, 2008. http://www.dukealumnievents.com/Reunions2008/
Reunions2008.html
Grad Programs Highly Ranked
Duke's School of Medicine, School of Law, Fuqua School of Business, Pratt School of Engineering, and Sanford Institute of Public Policy were all rated among the top institutions in their disciplines in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best graduate and professional schools. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/03/usnewsgradpro.html
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Student
Highlights
Incoming Freshmen to Read Dave Eggers' What is the What
Duke University's Class of 2012 already has its first homework assignment—to read this summer Dave Eggers' What is the What, a novel about a group of Sudanese refugees who struggled to survive during Sudan's Civil War. Duke's summer reading assignment is now in its seventh year. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/04/freshmen_read.html
Athletes Boosting Higher Ed
Student-athletes from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will participate in a program to be launched this summer that will use sports camps to inspire and prepare youth around the world for higher education. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/03
/coach%20for%20college.html
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Research
Highlights
Logos and You
Even the briefest exposure to well-known brands' logos—such as Apple's or IBM's—can cause people to behave in ways that mirror those brands' "characters," found researchers at the Fuqua School of Business and the University of Waterloo, Canada. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/03/apple_ibm.html
Switch Controls Cell Division
Investigators at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy have revealed hidden properties of an on-off switch for cell growth. When the switch is on, a cell will divide, even if it's damaged or the signal to grow disappears. http://dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10266 |
Faculty
Highlights
Award for Wireless Researcher
Pratt assistant professor Romit Roy Choudhury has received a 5-year, $437,000 Early CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to further explore the potential of "smart antenna"-based wireless networking, which he worked on earlier as a University of Illinois graduate student. http://www.pratt.duke.edu/news/?id=1266
Roadmap to Good Health
Duke faculty and students use GPS technology to find health risks for children. Watch a CNN video following a short ad. http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/
2008/04/16/pkg.health.map.cnn
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