Celebrations set for last day of classes This year's Last Day of Classes Festival, an event sponsored by Campus Council, will begin at 3 p.m. Wednesday on Main West Quadrangle with side-stage music featuring the Spencer Acuff Band, Parklife, Endwell and Kenin. The main stage acts will start at 7 p.m. with Better Than Ezra, followed by co-headliner Wilco. Senior Andre Buckner will rap on the side-stage during the change-over of the main acts. Food will be available for most of the day, as will other festival surprises. This year's event will benefit the Duke Children's Hospital Child Life Fund, which provides psychosocial and emotional support for families with hospitalized children. All undergraduates can pick up free Last Day of Classes t-shirts at stations in the Bryan Center and the Marketplace beginning today.
Spitzer to speak about ethics this week New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, described by The Economist as Wall Street's "scourger in chief," will discuss ethics and corporate governance Wednesday at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 3 p.m. in the institute's Fleishman Commons. A reception will follow. The event is sponsored by the Sanford Institute's Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions. Co-sponsors include the School of Law, the Global Capital Markets Center and the Fuqua School of Business.
Symposium commemorates renowned scientist's birthday
Numerous Nobel Prize winners and other leading scientists will be at Duke April 24 and 25 for a public symposium commemorating the 60th birthday of Duke Medical Center scientist Dr. Robert Lefkowitz. Dr. Lefkowitz is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and a professor of biochemistry.
The symposium, titled "Receptors and their Signals," will take place April 24 at 9 a.m. in the Geneen Auditorium of the Fuqua School of Business. Registration begins at 8 a.m.
Utopia conference honors Jameson
Fredric Jameson, who is stepping down as chair of Duke's Literature Program, will be honored with a four-day conference on utopia--one of the recurring themes in his work.
The conference, "The Future of Utopia: Is Innovation Still Possible in Politics, Culture, Theory?," begins April 24 with opening remarks by Jameson and concludes April 27 with a roundtable discussion. Jameson will give the keynote address at 6 p.m. April 24 in the Richard White Lecture Hall.
Participants include top scholars from around the world who will address topics such as utopia in mass culture, race and the nation, writing history and critique, the politics of promise and modernity.
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