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Nobel Laureate Yunus Urges Duke Graduates to Serve Others

Speaking under an overcast sky on Sunday at Duke’s annual com-

mencement ceremony in Wallace Wade Stadium, Muhammad Yunus called on the graduates to dedicate their lives to addressing social problems instead of focusing solely on personal profit. “Each individual, each human being, has enormous power to change

the world. You have it. Are you going to use that power to change the world?” he asked. Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker and economist who won the 2006

Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering use of microfinance to assist the poor, urged Duke’s graduates to measure their lives not by how much money they earn but by how much they help others. “Poverty is not created by poor people,” he said. “Seeds of poverty

are not in the person; seeds of poverty are in the system.” President Richard H. Brodhead presided over the ceremony, at

which Duke awarded degrees to about 1,500 undergraduates and nearly 2,100 graduate and professional students who graduated this spring. An additional 900 students who graduated in September or December 2009 were also invited to participate.

Novel Pouch Could Reduce Mother-to-Infant HIV Infection

By using medications packaged just like fast-food ketchup, HIV-

positive mothers in developing countries can more easily provide protec- tion to newborn babies born at home. Biomedical engineers at Duke have developed an inexpensive and easy- to-use system that allows mothers to give their newborns a potentially life-saving dose of an anti-HIV medication shortly after birth. This is especially important since such drugs can only be found in clinics or hospitals, which can be days away from an expectant mother. In order to be effective, the drug, known as Nevirapine, must be given to the newborn within days of birth. Since most mothers are not up to traveling that soon after delivery to get medication, the biomedical engi- neers developed a way of providing the medication in a simple manner and with a long shelf-life --- pouches made of foil and plastic that can hold a single dose of Nevirapine.

Campus Corner

Women’s Perceived Leadership Weaknesses Actually Strengths

The prevailing stereotypes that women in business are too sensitive

or just not as competent as men form the frame of the glass ceiling. But once a woman has shattered that barrier to advancement, these same biases may work in her favor, according to a Duke researcher. A perception of sensitivity and competence causes women to be

evaluated as better leaders than men in comparable positions, according to a recent study in the Journal of Applied Psychology. The research, led by assistant professor Ashleigh Shelby Rosette

of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, showed that top women execu- tives credited with responsibility for their own success can be viewed simultaneously as more competent and more relationship-oriented than men, leading them to be perceived as more effective leaders than their male counterparts.

A Giant in a Tiny World

Thousands of people may notice the name Culberson each year as

they step over the threshold into the Asiatic collection at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Far fewer are likely to notice the same name that was added last

week to the Lichen Herbarium and Library in a corner of the Biological Sciences building, but it’s no less monumental. The biology department added a modest plaque to the room to

recognize the contributions of Chicita Culberson, who has devoted her career to painstakingly cataloguing the chemical diversity of lichens, those drab growths one sees clinging to rocks and tree trunks in the most unlikely places. What she perfected, starting in the 1950s, was a way to sort out the

secondary chemical compounds that lichens produce and make them into a permanent visual record, a fingerprint of sorts that easily distinguishes one species from another. To the untrained eye, and even to many of the trained ones, lichens

are sometimes hard to tell apart. It was Culberson, who earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Duke under the legendary Pelham Wilder, who figured out a standardized way to chemically sort lichens so they could be identified.

Courtesy of Steve Hartsoe, Duke News & Communications, http://news.duke.edu

They Said It

“We ran the play for Lindsay Gilbride, who was having a really good day. It was a play we have in our repertoire that we use. It wasn’t executed perfectly, but it was executed enough to get the look we wanted.”

-- Kerstin Kimel, Duke women’s lacrosse head coach

“This feels like any first round win would to be honest. The fact that we drew [Johns Hopkins], we were all scared. We know of the talent they have and the coaching staff’s ability to prepare a team. We respected them so much that it really created a focus in our group early on.”

-- John Danowski, Duke men’s lacrosse head coach -- Ramsey Smith, Duke men’s tennis head coach

“I feel like I am playing really well and I’m gaining a lot of momentum from the start. Efficiency has been the key for me. I’ve been thinking, what is the easiest and most efficient way for me to get off the court with a win and I know that if I can get off the court with a win then it will really help the team’s momentum.”

-- Mary Clayton, Duke women’s tennis freshman

“It was a lot closer than the score and it always is with these guys. Carolina is such a great team. They fought until the very end. I am just really proud of our guys. I thought we competed great.”

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