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
Each year for the past 32 years, the Duke community has broken the previous year's Annual Fund record. We certainly hope to continue this streak, and I know many devoted alumni, parents, students, and friends out there will be making gifts between now and our June 30 fiscal year-end to continue this remarkable achievement.
Many thanks to the 37,000+ people who have made gifts so far, and to those of you whose Annual Fund gifts continue to come in each day. Your contributions help Duke fund scholarships, student programs, campus resources, and countless other priorities that simply couldn't be funded by tuition alone.
Thanks also to our volunteers and student callers who are working hard as the June 30 deadline approaches. Anyone who wants to make a gift or pledge payment now can do so easily on our secure giving site.
Yours for
Duke,
Hank Woods
Director, Duke Annual Fund
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University
Highlights
Duke Trustees Approve School's First Strategic Plan for Athletics
The Duke University Board of Trustees approved the school's first Strategic Plan for Athletics, a broad vision for bolstering the experience and development of Duke's student-athletes and enhancing recreational opportunities for members of the entire university community. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/05/ath_report.html
A New "Link" for Technology and Teaching
A new Teaching and Learning Center to open before the fall semester in Perkins Library's lower level will now be known by an even newer, and shorter, handle: the Link. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/04/link.html
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Research
Highlights
Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine
Two global research organizations dedicated to designing a vaccine against HIV have signed an agreement to work together to address major biological questions that have slowed development of a safe, effective, and affordable AIDS vaccine, said the Duke-based director of one of the organizations.
http://dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10302
First Steps Toward Autonomous Robot Surgeries
The day may be getting a little closer when robots will perform surgery on patients in dangerous situations. Engineers at Duke believe that the results of feasibility studies conducted in their laboratory represent the first concrete steps toward achieving this space age vision of the future. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/05/robot3-D08.html
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Student
Highlights
2008 Student Laurels and Honors
Juniors Mark Hallen, Nicholas Patrick, and Daniel Roberts were selected for Goldwater Scholarships for 2008-09. Ryan McCartney was one of 12 Americans selected for the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, and Lee Pearson was one of 40 students selected for the Marshall Scholarship. For more on 2008 awards, visit: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/05/studawards.html
Garbology 101
In a living essay about conservation, students dug through the Allen Building's trash and found that nearly half of it could be recycled. Watch the video.
http://www.duke.edu/today/archive/oncamera.php?id=17557
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Faculty
Highlights
Applying Mathematics to Life
Some professors might scoff at the idea of a student questioning the purpose of one of their lectures, but Michael Reed encourages that type of behavior. Reed's unconventional approach is just one of the reasons why he won the 2007-08 David and Janet Vaughn Brooks Award. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/04/reed.html
Under the Sea
Cindy Van Dover, professor of marine biology and director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory, describes life at the bottom of the sea. Watch the video.
http://research.duke.edu/whats-it-like-in-the-octopuss-garden-2/
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