Committee appointed to review Alleva
The Academic Council has appointed a six-member committee to review Director of Athletics Joe Alleva: Fuqua School of Business Professor Rex Adams, Director of Alumni Affairs and Development Laney Funderburk, Fuqua Executive in Residence Robert Garda, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Professor of Psychology - Social and Health Sciences Martha Putallaz and Professor of Political Science Thomas Spragens, who will serve as chair.
The Faculty Handbook states that if senior administrators of the University are eligible for reappointment, a committee appointed by the Academic Council will, in the fourth year of the senior administrator's term, conduct a performance review and submit a confidential report to the University president.
The committee's report is due in early April. The Committee is accepting comments from the Duke community until March 1. Comments can be sent to the Committee Chair at Thomas Spragens, Chair; Joseph Alleva Review Committee; c/o Susan M. Henk, Committee Coordinator; Duke University Office of the President; Box 90001; or via e-mail to susan.henk@duke.edu.
Caltech scientist to deliver London Memorial Lecture
Harry Gray, founding director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology, will deliver the 2003 Fritz London Memorial Lecture at Duke University, which will be held at 8 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Gross Chemical Laboratory. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Gray, who is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, will discuss aspects of his latest research interest: Electron transfer in proteins. More specifically, he will discuss how electrons move within copper-containing proteins involved in photosynthesis, as well as within iron-containing proteins involved in respiration.
Valenti to speak on intellectual property
Jack Valenti, the president and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America, will present the third annual Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property at the Law School Feb. 24.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at noon in the Law Library. A brief reception will follow on the third floor loggia of the Law School.
A former aide to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, Valenti was appointed chief executive of the movie industry's trade association in 1966 and has led the group ever since. A Web cast of the lecture will be available at noon Feb. 27, at www.law.duke.edu/webcast/.
Law school to hold Business Law Society event
The Business Law Society will host its first-ever Duke Law Smoker Feb. 22, with practitioners of corporate and business law - many of them law school alumni - as featured guests. The purpose of the one-day event is to bring together students, lawyers and business leaders in educational and informal settings to help students understand and prepare for their professional careers.
The visiting practitioners include: Scott Cammarn, Law '87, associate general counsel of Bank of America; Jeffrey Coyne, '79, chair and CEO of Provect Technologies and a senior lecturing fellow at Duke Law; Thomas Dunn, '92, partner with Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Kent Mann, '76, partner with Thompson Hine LLP; Chris McDermott, '86, partner with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft; Mark Webbink, general counsel of Red Hat, Inc.; and Sandra White, senior associate with Troutman Sanders LLP.
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