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In Brief
- Three Duke Medical Center researchers have
been elected to the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of
Medicine. They are physician Rebecca Buckley '55, professor of
pediatrics and immunology; Paul Modrich, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute investigator and professor of biochemistry at Duke;
and Margaret Pericak-Vance, director of the Duke Center for Human
Genetics and James B. Duke Professor of medicine.
- Seven faculty members have been selected as 2003 Fellows of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
the world's largest general federation of scientists. The
new Duke fellows are among 348 AAAS members internationally
to be selected this year for the honor by their peers. They
are Kenneth A. Dodge, William McDougall Professor of public
policy studies and psychology professor; Anthony R. Means,
Nanaline H. Duke Professor of pharmacology; John H. Reif,
A. Hollis Edens Distinguished Professor of computer science;
Keith M. Sullivan, James B. Wyngarden Professor of medicine;
Marilyn J. Telen, Wellcome Professor of medicine; Samuel
A. Wells Jr., professor of surgery; and Weitao Yang, Philip
Handler Professor of chemistry.
- Two Duke University Press books won top honors in the 2003
Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, given by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard
Wright Foundation to honor published works by authors of
African descent. First prize went to Forgotten Readers: Recovering
the Lost History of African American Literary Societies by
Elizabeth McHenry, an assistant professor of English at New
York University. Passed On: African American Mourning Stories,
A Memorial, by Karla Holloway, dean of humanities and social
sciences at Duke, was a finalist. Holloway's book, which
also won the 2002 Eugene M. Kayden Book Award, deals with
the death of her son and also examines bereavement, death,
dying, and burial among twentieth-century African Americans.
McHenry's book traces 200 years of African-American literacy,
book clubs, and literary societies, including groups founded
in the antebellum North and throughout the country following
the Civil War.
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