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What does it take to get into medical school and to excel once you have been admitted? In a live "Office Hours" webcast interview at noon Friday, April 12, Dr. Ed Buckley, vice dean for education for Duke's School of Medicine, will take questions about the MCATs, medical school applications and the future of medical education. Watch the interview live on this webpage or on Duke Today. To pose a question to Dr. Buckley, email live@duke.edu, Tweet at @DukeOfficeHours or post to the Duke Office Hours Facebook page Duke's School of Medicine's curriculum differs from some other medical schools. Students study the basic sciences for one year instead of two, giving them the opportunity to devote their entire third year to a scholarly research project. Students care for patients during their second year.  In his role as vice dean for education, Buckley oversees the development of the medical school curriculum. He was instrumental in developing the school's new Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education and has worked closely with the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore to create a research-oriented medical school in Singapore modeled after Duke's curriculum. Buckley, who attended Duke for both undergraduate and medical school, is a professor of ophthalmology and pediatrics and division chief for pediatric and neuro-ophthalmology. His research focuses on treatment of complicated eye muscle problems and congenital cataracts. He has published six books, 35 book chapters and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. "Office Hours" is Duke's live webcast series for the university community, and others, to engage with professors about their research and scholarship.

Duke University juniors Emily Sobel and Danny Nolan deliver a week's worth of campus news in a minute.

The first African-American students at Duke enrolled fifty years ago. The university is marking the anniversary with a series of events beginning with a kick -off celebration this Friday at the Nasher Museum of Art.

Duke trustee Anne Bass and her husband Robert are giving 50 million dollars to the university. The money will fund the new "Bass Connections" initiative to encourage students and faculty to tackle complex societal problems.

English professor Cathy Davidson is teaming up with Economics Professor Dan Ariely to teach a course, called "Surprise Endings," on literature and the social sciences. Students in the class are assigned to develop a new online course.

Duke engineers have developed a novel sensor that could potentially be used in airport scanners and other devices. It includes a "metamaterial" developed at Duke and aims to be more efficient, more versatile and cheaper than current sensors.

A record thirty-one thousand, seven hundred fifty-two high school seniors have applied to Duke this year. Good luck guys!

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Duke University participated in Google's Admissions Week. In this Hangout On Air, Sam Carpenter addresses admissions and answers applicants questions.