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Duke's 2012 Edible Book Festival
Every year, Duke Libraries hosts an Edible Book Festival to benefit the Library Memorial Fund. In its seventh year, the festival hosted numerous food-based creations that reflected famous books or book titles. Students, faculty and staff provided entries made of a variety of items - from turnips to fresh fish.During the event, visitors vote for which entry is the most or least edible as well as the "punniest."
For more information or pictures from past Edible Book festivals, visit http://library.duke.edu/about/depts/preservation/edible.html
View the 2011 festival here: http://youtu.be/QjKKQe21lhc
View the 2010 festival here: http://youtu.be/asExZUxvKsQ
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Duke Students Teach Children Orchestral Music
Through the Duke Music Tutors group, students teach children in the Durham, N.C., KidZNotes program how to play violin, cello, piano and other instruments. Funding for 100 violins and cellos for three Durham elementary schools came from the Duke University Office of the Provost for the Arts.Published 1 year ago
Spring Plant Sale '12: Growing and Cooking with Herbs
Duke Gardens volunteer Beatrice Litt talks about some popular herbs for cooking, how to use them and how to grow them. We'll be selling these herbs at the Spring Plant Sale on Saturday, March 31, 2012, from 8 a.m. to noon. You can also get first dibs at our member preview sale March 30 from 5-7 p.m. (you can join on site). Sarah P. Duke Gardens is at 420 Anderson St., Duke University, Durham, NC. Info: http://gardens.duke.edu. Plant sale info: http://www.hr.duke.edu/dukegardens/plant-sale-spring12.htm .Published 1 year ago
Duke Gardens Spring '12 Plant Sale Preview
Volunteer propagation team member Sara Smith talks about some plants we'll be selling that are propagated from Duke Gardens plants, as well as other plants that we'll have at the Spring Plant Sale on Saturday, March 31, 2012, from 8 a.m. to noon. You can also get first dibs at our member preview sale March 30 from 5-7 p.m. (you can join on site). Sarah P. Duke Gardens is at 420 Anderson St., Duke University, Durham, NC. Info: http://gardens.duke.edu. Plant sale info: http://www.hr.duke.edu/dukegardens/plant-sale-spring12.htm . Small correction: borage is an annual in this zone, but it will reseed.Published 1 year ago
Local Meat Farmers Talk Food Studies (3/27/12)
March 27Who Becomes Our Food?
Local Meat Farmers:
Eliza MacLean, Duke Alum Nicholas School of the Environment (1996), Cane Creek Farm
Ben Bergmann and Noah Ranalls, Fickle Creek Farm
Respondent:
Marilyn Forbes, Duke Law School
Vegan Response:
Larry Moneta Vice President for Student Affairs at Duke
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Duke Swimmers Coach Kids
Children learn to embrace the water during lessons from students on Duke's swimming and diving team. Learn more at https://today.duke.edu/2007/12/swim.html.Published 1 year ago
Startup Life in Durham
Alison Dorsey is an alumnus of Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy's Enterprising Leadership Initiative ('09). Currently leading a startup team for the new venture, Entasso, Alison is launching her venture in Durham--and part of a community helping to get others do the same. Hear Alison's thoughts on why Durham is the best place in the world to work to change the world.Published 1 year ago
Nature Adventures Camp at Duke Gardens
Spring break and summer camps are a wonderful opportunity for children to connect with nature at Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Info: http://gardens.duke.edu. To register: 668-1707. Many thanks to filmmaker Fred Westbrook and other volunteers who contributed their time and talent to make this video, and to the children and families who shared their sense of wonder. Music by Phil Cook and His Feat; used with permission. Voiceover: Carnessa Ottelin.Published 1 year ago
Cancer Survivors Get Special Makeovers (WTVD)
During a special open house event Wednesday, Feb.22, 2012 Duke cancer survivors received makeovers in the Belk Boutique in the Duke Cancer Center. Duke cancer survivor Sharon Van Vechten said, "It's not just about make-up and hair, but a shoulder to lean on."
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Amy Laura Hall on Marriage Amendment (WRAL-Raleigh’s 'On the Record')
WRAL News Anchor David Crabtree and Capitol Bureau Chief Laura Leslie go "On the Record" with Dr. Patrick L. Wooden Sr, pastor at Upper Room Church of God, and Amy Laura Hall, professor at Duke University's Divinity School, about the proposed marriage amendment on the May ballot.
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New UV Light Fights Bacteria at Local Hospitals (WRAL)
Polly Padgette, RN, of Duke Raleigh Hospital, and Deverick Anderson, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of medicine, demonstrated technology being tested at Duke hospitals that sterilizes patient rooms with UV-C light.Posted 1 year ago
BorderWork(s) Lab: Invisible Walls
Professor Robin Kirk talks about the invisible walls discussed in her BorderWork(s) lab at Duke University.Published 1 year ago
Pauli Murray Project (ABC 11)
Barbara Lau, director of the Pauli Murray Project at the Franklin Humanities Institute, is a guest on ABC 11's “Heart of Carolina Perspective.” Lau discusses the project’s work to advance the legacy of the civil rights pioneer through community programs and the renovation of her childhood home.
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Duke Doctors Use Experimental Heart Pump in 10 year old (ABC 11)
Andrew Lodge, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, discussed the implantation of a heart pump in a 10-year-old while he waited for a transplant, a first in North Carolina and only the fourth nationally.Posted 1 year ago
Installing 'Full Color Depression' at CDS
Exhibitions Director Courtney Reid-Eaton and Exhibitions Intern Audrey Bell spent more than two days installing Full Color Depression at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
The exhibit, which is a collection of some of the lesser-known color photographs taken by the Farm Security Administration during Depression-era America, will be open to the public until July 23, 2012.
For more information, visit fullcolordepression.com
Video shot and edited by Whitney Baker
(Music: "Old Strange" by Steve Gunn from the Free Music Archive: www.freemusicarchive.org)
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