Ben Folds concert tickets on sale today
North Carolina native and pop piano pro Ben Folds is coming to Duke"s Page Auditorium Thursday, Jan. 27 for a concert presented by the Duke University Union.
Tickets will be on sale for Duke students only at a discount price of $20, starting at 10 a.m. this morning at the University Box Office in the Bryan Center. General tickets will be available tomorrow at $22 for students and $25 for the public.
Orientation required for job database
For the new semester, the Career Center is requiring all students to attend a one-hour job recruiting orientation before they can access the online career network BlueDevilTrak. The training sessions, which run from now until late February, are meant to explain job recruiting, interviewing, company visits to campus and job offers. Both new and existing users of BlueDevilTrak must register for orientation online at http://survey.oit.duke.edu/ViewsFlash/servlet/viewsflash?cmd=page&pollid=STUAFF-CAREER!OCR.
Duke cancer research pioneer, 88, dies
Renowned surgeon William Warner Shingleton, who founded the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center in a push for national cancer studies in the 1970s, died Jan. 2 in Chapel Hill. He was 88.
Under Shingleton"s direction, Duke"s Cancer Center gained recognition from the National Cancer Advisory Board as the No. 1 comprehensive cancer center in the nation in 1977, just five years after its inception. The center expanded rapidly and maintained national prestige throughout the rest of Shingleton"s tenure, and he continued to work there after he stepped down from its top post in 1987.
'Dr. Shingleton remained a friend to the Cancer Center long after his tenure as director and will forever be remembered as the man who created the foundation on which we all stand today,' said H. Kim Lyerly, current director of the Cancer Center.
Grad student injured in Iraq
Jonathan Kuniholm, a biomedical engineering Ph.D student serving as a combat engineer in the Marine Corps Reserves, was seriously hurt when insurgent attacks in Baghdad, Iraq, flared up briefly on New Year"s Day.
Kuniholm had been working on a roving reconnaissance device with the 4th Combat Engineer Battalion before he was transported to Germany to wait for a trip home to the United States where he will be treated at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. He is expected to recover fully.
Grant pumps $0.5M into Durham area
The Duke Endowment, the University"s foundational and philanthropic arm, has offered a $515,000 grant to pump resources into Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership. This most recent gift--the priorities of which were determined by residents, according to Duke officials--is intended to continue development on affordable housing, youth programs and nonprofit organizations in the West End and Walltown neighborhoods near East and West Campuses, respectively.
Another $240,000 will go to an expansion of the Lyon Park Clinic and the eventual opening of the Walltown Neighborhood Clinic, giving more healthcare options to areas where Duke has already reached out in community-based health programs.
'It enables the Neighborhood Partnership to work on long-term goals rather than mere short-term fixes,' President Richard Brodhead said. 'We are extremely grateful for the vision of The Duke Endowment, which has made possible much of the progress we have seen.'
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