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Duke Graduate Awarded Marshall Scholarship Duke Press Publishes Book by Obama’s Mother
Andrew “Andy” Cunningham, a 2008 summa cum laude graduate Duke University Press has published a book by S. Ann Dunham,
of Duke who has been active in public service around the world, will the mother of President Barack Obama. Dunham, who died in 1995,
receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. completed the dissertation in anthropology for the University of Hawaii
Established in 1953 to commemorate the Marshall Plan, the scholar- in 1992.
ships are awarded each year to 40 or more “talented, independent and The book is based on Dunham’s research, over a period of 14 years,
wide-ranging” young Americans to finance two years of graduate level among the rural craftsmen of Java. At the request of Dunham’s daughter,
studies at a college or university in the United Kingdom. Maya Soetoro-Ng, two anthropologists — Alice G. Dewey, Dunham’s
Cunningham, 23, said he plans to pursue a graduate degree in in- graduate adviser, and Nancy I. Cooper, a fellow graduate student — have
ternational and comparative education at Oxford University in England. revised and edited the dissertation, “Surviving Against the Odds: Village
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After Oxford, he said he would like to lead organizations based in the Industry in Indonesia.”
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Cunningham, a Robertson Scholar, graduated in May 2008 with “It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this
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a double major in international comparative studies and Asian African remarkable work by Ann Dunham,” said Ken Wissoker, editorial director
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languages and literature, with a concentration in Chinese. Among his of Duke University Press. “Her global perspective and obvious respect

many achievements, Cunningham co-founded WISEr (http://www. for other people’s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can
wisergirls.org), the first all-girls boarding school and community center learn from. Her children clearly have!”
set to open early next year in Muhuru Bay, Kenya.
Duke YouTube Gets Captions
Music and Speech Based on Human Biology Viewers who are deaf or hearing impaired can now join the audience
A pair of studies by Duke neuroscientists shows powerful new evi- for Duke’s YouTube channel as a result of new speech-to-text technology
dence of a deep biological link between human music and speech. that adds closed captions automatically to the online videos.
The two new studies found that we understand emotions expressed Duke is among about a dozen channels trying out the new “auto-
through music because the music mimics the way emotions are ex- captions” option that Google announced last month. Google is adding Durham WDNC - AM 620
pressed in speech. Composers have long exploited the perception of the option gradually to the videos of the participating institutions. Aberdeen WEEB - AM 990
minor chord music as sad and major chord music as happy. In addition to helping viewers who are hearing impaired, the captions Albemarle WZKY - AM 1580
In a paper appearing in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of make the video content more accessible to those who speak a different Asheboro WIST - FM 98.3
America (JASA), the Duke team, led by Dale Purves, a professor of language. Machine translations are available in 51 languages. Beaufort WSFL - FM 106.5
neurobiology, found that sad or happy speech can be categorized in Duke videos have been viewed more than 3 million times on You- Burlington WBAG - AM 1150
major and minor intervals, just as music can. Tube. Those that have already received the closed captions range from Charlotte WHVN - FM 104.3
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used musical scales are based on the physics of the vocal tones that Cutcliffe explaining football strategy to groups of Duke students.
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They Said It
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“We’ve definitely started to count on our bigs more, and they’re “It’s a fight early in December. I thought they did extremely Kinston WSFL - FM 106.5
ready to play. We’ve concentrated on that in practice and the well. So I’m pleased with the win and to come back with
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film sessions. So whether it’s a penetrate and kick or an inside that type of vigor after a really tough loss at Wisconsin and
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out, it will just make our offense a lot easier.” getting back so late. It was a really good performance by
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our team.”
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-- Nolan Smith, Duke men’s basketball junior
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-- Mike Krzyzewski, Duke men’s basketball head coach
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“For [Jasmine Thomas], I just loved how she handled the differ-
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ent changes of tempo of the game. There were times that we “I’m getting kind of old. I’ve never been this hurt in my four
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attacked and it was great, and there were times that we pulled years. I’ve had two shoulder surgeries, but that was it. That Wilson WSFL - FM 106.5
the ball out and we were patient. And that balance of attack wasn’t an ongoing thing. I’ve never had an ankle, nose [in-
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and patience is something that’s very hard to have in a point jury] all in the first eight games. I’m alright though.”
guard.”
-- Joy Cheek, Duke women’s basketball senior
-- Joanne P. McCallie, Duke women’s basketball head coach
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