Duke Magazine
Volume 89, No.2, January-February 2003

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On this month's cover:
A Bountiful Mind
Casting for profitable patents
 
   
Duke Magazine-Feature Images Putting a Patent on Research by Dennis Meredith
The boom in partnerships between corporations and academics offers potential problems that, if not wisely managed, could compromise the quality and integrity of university research
On the Campaign Trail by Mark Tosczak and Kim Koster
One congressional race, two candidates, each with a Duke degree--but only one gets to hear the day-after yell, "You did it!"
The Art of Adaptation by Dave Karger
Erin Wilson, a theater-studies professor hailed by Variety as one of its "Ten Screenwriters to Watch," has a system for balancing a trio of careers: Don't do them all at once
First the Book, Then the Sell by Catherine Cantrell
After her first novel, Constance, was slated for a summer release, an entirely different kind of writer's work began

Gallery
Gallery-From DUMA-Keir Pyx
Update
Update-Reach for the Stars
Syllabus
Syllabus-Organic Chemistry
Mini-Profiles
Mini-Profiles
Snapshot
Student Snapshot-Racial Reconciliation
Departments
Between the Lines
After more than twenty years reporting for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Zoë Ingalls joined the magazine in January as its new features editor.
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Quad Quotes
A conversation about war, an editorial reading list
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Forum
Criticisms of capital punishment, arguments over Afghan impressions, concerns with classified research
Under the Gargoyle
The presidential voice on public issues
Face Value
Sheela Agrawal: a healthy perspective on life's setbacks
Gazette
A statesman as graduation speaker, a pair of Rhodes Scholars,
a big number in fund raising; Campus Observer: striking up the band
Q & A
Picasso, Matisse, and the makings of an art-world blockbuster
Sports
The enduring walk-on athlete

Trials and testimony: two titles by Ariel Dorfman

Celebrating the Woman's College, selecting Alumni Scholars

Capturing the Chapel on a snowy winter's day

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Heard Around Campus
"Having breakfast with [emeritus history professor] John Hope Franklin cinched it."

—Paula McClain, a political science professor, recalling her decision to join Duke's faculty in 2000, in The News & Observer

"As an Iranian-American, we are not against protecting the nation. But anything that discriminates because of our background or ethnicity is really disturbing."

—Amir Rezvani, associate research professor of biological psychiatry, in response to a new requirement for visitors from the Middle East to be fingerprinted, photographed, and periodically interviewed by immigration officials, in The News & Observer

"I spent a lot of time praying in the Duke Gardens under a weeping willow. I was so grateful to God. I look at it as a way that God talks through me. I've been blessed."

—John Ormond, a patient at Duke's Brain Tumor Center, after a cancerous tumor the size of an orange was suc- cessfully removed from his right frontal lobe; that form of cancer, anaplastic astrocytoma grade III, had killed his mother, his aunt, his great-grandmother, his grandfather, and his grandfather's brother

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