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The Numbers, a new use the Duke library carbon footprint by
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workplace facts and borrowing increase of “to-go” food container
figures. This month, 16 percent from 2008 program through
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Volunteering for Science

EMPLOYEES HELP ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY THROUGH DUKE CLINICAL TRIALS

isa Anderson doesn’t have cancer,

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better than many because we have people who

“
but she’s fighting it. are capable of asking rigorous questions and
After the death of four I participate designing a carefully structured research
grandparents from cancer and her in clinical study.”
mother’s breast cancer diagnosis, trials not only for my To attract participants, many clinical trials
Anderson enrolled in clinical trials at offer payment for participation-related
Duke to help researchers find better ways own health, but to expenses, but most individuals volunteer
to diagnose and cure the deadly disease. provide help to others. because trials may benefit their own health
Determined to do all she could to If I could have done it and allow them to participate in scientific
help, she participated in a study to learn discovery at Duke.
when I was younger,
how women respond to the drug
Tamoxifen to treat breast cancer and has who knows how many Committed to Research
rolled up her sleeves each year to give more lives might be Elaine Ray, a staff specialist at Duke, has
blood for research studies. saved?” exercised every day for more than a year as
“I participate in clinical trials not part of a long-term study of cardiovascular
— Lisa Anderson Lisa Anderson, left, with mother
only for my own health, but to provide Barbara Waters benefits of aerobic and weight training exercise.
Clinical trials assistant II
help to others,” said Anderson, 48, Ray enrolled in the study to get a leg up on
a clinical trials assistant II in the exercise. “There is no way I’d be exercising at
Department of Anesthesiology. “If I this intensity if it hadn’t been for the clinical
could have done it when I was younger, trial,” she said.
who knows how many more lives might be saved?” During the initial yearlong study, Ray reported each morning to the
Anderson is one of hundreds of Duke employees who take time from Center for Living, where she lifted weights or walked briskly on the
their private lives to participate in Duke clinical trials, rigorous scientific treadmill to boost her heart rate.
studies that use volunteers to test treatments, drugs and devices to As she walked, a small wrist monitor collected data on how fast her
improve patient care. Duke is a powerhouse for clinic trials research and heart pumped. At each weight machine, she punched in a personal code
is home to the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the world’s largest to track how much, how often and how fast she lifted.
academic clinical research organization that coordinates large, multi-site Periodically, she reported for stress tests, blood draws or other simple
trials. Duke researchers offer more than 4,000 clinical trials at Duke every tests for the study called STRRIDE (Studies Targeting Risk Reduction
year. Trials span scores of specialties, from cancer services and sleep Interventions through Defined Exercise).
disorders to diet and fitness, mental health and more. “There isn’t a lot of data about the benefits of resistance training and
“The only way to know if a new idea in healthcare is better than the whether it provides any benefits related to cardiovascular health,” said
current approach is to study that idea in people,” said Dr. John Falletta, Leslie Willis, an exercise physiologist who has tracked STRRIDE
senior chair of the Institutional Review Board, which reviews Duke’s participants for five years. “Our ability to collect actual, detailed data on
clinical trials. “If we do this carefully, we can build on the answer as a the exercise routines of our participants will allow us to better understand
firm foundation for the next set of questions. Duke is poised to do this how exercise affects the body.”

Top Photo: Jennifer Wilson, who works in the Department of Biological Psychiatry, points to
>> See VOLUNTEERING FOR SCIENCE, PAGE 5
a scan of her brain. The image was captured when she volunteered for a Duke clinical trial.

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e value hearing from you.
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now in its fifth year.
After the February issue hit
mailboxes and news racks, we got a
note from Sue Johnson, a registered
dietician whom we featured in an
article about nutrition consultations.
Sue thanked us for doing the
story, which highlighted a benefit
available to all Duke faculty and staff:
two free nutrition consults a year. “I am
sure that it will raise awareness of
these benefits which Duke offers and
will encourage more people to take
advantage of the Life for Life
programs,” Sue said.
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accomplished. A primary goal of
Working@Duke is connecting Duke
faculty and staff with resources and
benefits that help them in work and life.
But sometimes, we miss things. In
February, we accidentally left off
credits for people who helped us with
information and illustration.
Matthew Shangler, an intern in
University Archives, researched and
compiled information that helped us
construct the “Duke Through the
Digital Years” timeline. We regret that
we did not include a source attribution
to University Archives.
We also inadvertently left out a
credit for Barbara Puccio, art director
for Duke Web Services. She created the
cover illustration for “Employees Tune
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Duke President Richard H. Brodhead
tells employees during the Primetime
employee forum Feb. 16 that the
university is “on a good path”
to meet budget challenges.
VIDEO:
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talk? Watch the video:
hr.duke.edu/
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Newsbriefs
Fight back against cancer April 10
Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society's largest annual fundraiser,
will be held April 10 on Duke’s Main Quad on West Campus. Relay for
Life celebrates the community's cancer survivors, remembers loved
ones who have passed and fights back against the disease.
Over 12 hours – from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. – teams take turns
walking or running, and each team is asked to have a representative
on the path around the quad at all times during the event. In
addition to the relay, there will be food and other activities.
To donate or to start or join a team, visit dukerelay.org.
Stay connected with Duke’s response in Haiti
Duke continues to find ways to support the people of Haiti as they
rebuild following the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than
200,000 Haitians and devastated their country.
To help the Duke community stay informed about relief efforts, a
website has been developed: duke.edu/haiti.
Here, individuals can find the latest news
about Duke efforts, special events and
volunteer opportunities.
“We know that the assistance required
in this situation will certainly span many
months and, most likely, years,” said Duke
University President Richard H. Brodhead.
In February, a team of medical professionals from Duke
University Medical Center traveled to Haiti to provide medical support
at a Partners In Health (PIH) hospital in Cange, a city about two hours
from Port au Prince.
“Given the chaos on the ground and the need for coordination
there, we made a decision to work through a trusted partner in PIH,
which was already in Haiti and who we know would identify the urgent
medical needs and provide the specific logistics support for our relief
effort," said Victor J. Dzau, MD, Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke
and CEO, Duke University Health System.
Meanwhile, the Duke community’s local efforts include collecting
and shipping surplus medical supplies, gathering shoes and clothing and
planning events to raise money and awareness of the needs of Haitians.
Summer classes at Duke for high school seniors
Duke employees with children who are high school seniors can offer
them a taste of Duke academics during Blue Devil Summer.
Since Duke no longer offers a pre-college residential camp, Blue
Devil Summer provides high school seniors the opportunity to explore
college-level courses by enrolling in Duke’s summer sessions.
“This new program is an opportunity for high school students to
participate in campus life and prepare themselves for college,” said
Brodhead says Duke is halfway
in addressing budget challenge
uke University President Richard H. Brodhead told
D employees during the Primetime employee forum in
February that Duke is “on a good path” to meet
budget challenges created by the severe economic recession.
Brodhead said instead
of expecting to reduce the
projected budget in three
years by $125 million, the
number is now closer to
approximately $100
million, “which makes the
task a little bit easier.”
“We have achieved
somewhere between $50
and $60 million of that
reduction, so we have
gotten over half of the
problem solved in one
third of the time we have
given ourselves,” he said,
referring to the three-year horizon that the Board of
Trustees laid out in February of 2009 for reducing the
operating budget to adjust to new fiscal realities.
Brodhead offered these figures and took questions as
part of a state of the university talk Feb. 16 in Page
Auditorium, where 100 gathered, and another 205
participated through live webcast.
Questions from employees centered on whether they
will receive pay raises this year, whether employee benefits
would be changed and whether there would be large-scale
layoffs.
Kim Price, director of academic services for Duke’s Summer Session.
Applications are due by April 15 for Session I (May/June) and by
June 1 for Session II (July/August). Applications must include a high
school transcript, two letters of recommendation and scores from the
SAT or ACT. If accepted, students will commute to Duke and take
courses with undergraduates. Tuition per course is $2,568 to $3,424,
with a maximum of two courses per session.
For more information, visit summersession.duke.edu.
U.S. Archivist to speak at Duke
David Ferriero, archivist of the United States and former vice provost
for library affairs at Duke, will speak at Duke on March 22 as part of
this year’s Duke Provost’s Lecture Series on
“The Historical Record in the Digital Age.”
Ferriero, who worked at Duke from 1996
to 2004, was sworn in as the tenth Archivist
of the United States late last year. His talk,
“Are We Losing Our Memory? The View from
the National Archives,” is at 5 p.m. March 22
in room 130 of the Sociology-Psychology
Building on West Campus. The lecture is free
and open to the public.
David Ferriero
As the nation's top archivist, Ferriero
oversees the activities of the National
Archives and Records Administration and ensures that highly
sensitive presidential papers and electronic records are saved and
made available to the public.
For more information, visit provost.duke.edu/speaker_series.
Duke pharmacies offer mail order discount
Effective March 1, employees under Duke’s medical insurance plans
have a new walk-in option for filling prescriptions for maintenance
medications prescribed for 90 days at a time.
Participating pharmacies in Duke Clinic, the Children’s Hospital
and Duke Raleigh Hospital now offer 90-day prescriptions under the
same guidelines as Medco Mail Order. The pharmacy coverage for
these prescriptions includes a lower co-payment than retail
pharmacies and waives the $100 pharmacy deductible for brand/non-
formulary drugs (except for employees covered by Duke Basic).
For more information, visit hr.duke.edu/pharmacy.
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“There may be a possibility for some modest increase,
but the emphasis is on the word modest,” Brodhead said of
pay raises. He pointed out that last year’s salary freeze for
employees earning more than $50,000 prevented the budget
deficit from growing by more than $18 million a year. “That
means the non-salary increase of last year effectively
protected about 200 jobs in this university,” he said.
When asked about benefits, Brodhead emphasized that
Duke is attempting to maintain its comprehensive benefit
package but must balance salaries and rising benefit costs.
Duke spends $400 million each year on employee benefits,
he said.“Last year when you got no raise, we put $25
million more in to support the quality of those benefits.”
A question about a rumor that Duke would layoff
2,000 to 3,000 employees drew a firm response: “That
rumor is absolutely and categorically false. There is no such
plan,” Brodhead said.
Although the economic situation dominated his
remarks, Brodhead said what drives Duke is the excellent
education, research and patient care accomplished by
faculty and staff in Durham and abroad.
“Let’s look this moment in the eye. Let’s take the
measure of this challenge and let’s step up to the challenge
to make this place stronger,” he said.
Employees who attended Primetime said they
appreciated hearing from the president. Doris Jordan, a
program coordinator for the Kenan Institute for Ethics,
won a drawing for lunch with Brodhead. “I’ve attended a
lot of Primetimes,” she said, “but this will be even better.”
— By Marsha A. Green
Senior Writer, Office of Communication Services
 Tenure of Current DUKE By
The Numbers
W O R K P L A C E FA C T S A N D F I G U R E S
Duke Employees
20,000
hen Abby Krichman arrived at Duke in 1979, she wasn’t

18,000 17,364
W planning to stay long.
“I came for a post-graduate internship in respiratory therapy,
and I expected to leave when it was done,” she said.
Thirty one years later, she’s still at Duke.
16,000 Krichman is part of a unique segment of Duke’s population: she is
among the nearly 1,400 faculty and staff at the University and Health
Number of Employees

System with 30 to 39 years of service. Another 315 employees have been

14,000 here 40 or more years, and many have been here long enough to recall
when Terry Sanford, former governor of North Carolina, became
president of Duke in 1969.
12,000 “Employees with long institutional memories bring great value to
Duke, and we all benefit from their accumulated wisdom,” said Kyle
Cavanaugh, vice president for Duke Human Resources.
10,000 Krichman, now manager of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Center,
has enjoyed many different roles at Duke, from direct patient care and
8,000 supervising in respiratory therapy, to teaching and now clinical research.
“Sometimes I have to pinch myself. I can’t believe I’ve been here this
long,” she said. “There have been so many opportunities within Duke
5,886 that I just never felt the need to go anywhere else.”
6,000
Career opportunity continues to attract new employees like Tara
Williams, an administrative assistant in the School of Medicine’s Office
3,939
4,000 3,348 of Appointments, Promotions and Tenure. She is among the 3,939 hired
in 2009, a year marked by economic turmoil but also advances like the
opening of Duke’s 10th school, the Sanford School of Public Policy.
2,000 1,364 Born and raised in Durham, Williams longed to work at Duke ever
since completing summer internships at the School of Medicine in 2000
315
and 2001.
0 “The benefits are great, and it is such a great working environment,”
less than 1 1-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40+
said Williams, who is 27. “It took nearly a year for me to find a job here
Years of Service because of the economy, but now I hope to stay until I retire.”
As of early January, the Duke University and Health System workforce included 32,216 total
— By Marsha A. Green
employees. Most faculty and staff have worked for Duke between one and nine years.
Senior Writer, Office of Communication Services
Source: Duke Human Resources

Fish to flowers: mobile market is more than veggies

uke’s mobile farmers market kicks

D off in April with more options

than ever – and they’re not limited
to just leafy green produce.
What’s mobile?
Faculty and staff can sign up now
for shares with 11 local farmers and
vendors who will sell seafood,
vegetables, meat and flowers from April
through September.
Libby Gulley, nurse manager for
LIVE FOR LIFE, bought produce and
meat last season and plans to purchase a Produce Flowers Meat Seafood
flower subscription, a new offering. Locally grown fruits and Annuals, perennials and Local beef, pork, lamb and Local, sustainably harvested
“I find it easier to stop by Duke vegetables herbs for cutting chicken seafood, including summer
Gardens after work than to take time to flounder, mullet, shrimp,
Share: Individual, couple Price: $50 subscription Share: Beef by the pound,
go to a farmers market each weekend,” and family shares, buys $55 worth of flowers, or a share that includes a spot, hard clams, black
she said. depending on vendor. including daisies and variety of cuts, including drum and gray trigger fish.
Employees participate by registering Length of season varies by dianthus in the spring, and whole chicken, chops, roasts Share: Full share: 3-5
directly with farmers and vendors and vendor. asters and zinnias in the and ribs. pounds; half-share: 1-3
pre-purchasing shares of the harvest. Price: Ranges from $8 per summer; a $90 subscription Price: Smith Angus Farm: pounds. Order fish either
Food, flowers and products are picked week for an individual box buys $100 worth. $175 for 25 pounds to $1,200 headed and gutted or
up from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. each Tuesday to $28 for a family box. Seasons: Colors of spring for 200 pounds. Participants filleted.
at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Vendors: Brinkley Farms, (April 20 to June 22), pick weekly cuts. The Coon Price: $70 to $420,
More than 400 employees Britt Farms, Coon Rock Farm, summer favorites (July 13 to Rock Farm share is $489.60 depending on number of
participated in last year’s mobile market, Frog Pond Farm, Lee’s September 14) for six months. deliveries, share size and
organized by LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s Produce, Lyon Farms and Vendor: Fernrock Flower Vendors: Smith Angus Farm, choice of preparation.
employee wellness program. The mobile Vollmer Farm. Farm Coon Rock Farm Vendor: Walking Fish, a
market increases Duke and Durham Durham-based community-
community access to healthy, local food. supported fishery (CSF)
Last season, Duke mobile market
participants contributed nearly $82,000
to local, sustainable farming. Did you know?
You can purchase ready-to-eat meals from Rosie’s Plate
— By Marsha A. Green at the Duke mobile farmers market each Tuesday.
Senior Writer,
Learn more at rosiesplate.com.
Office of Communication Services
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Sign up for Duke’s mobile market at hr.duke.edu/mobilemarket

 VoIP phones add cool features,
save Duke $2 million
ot everyone who calls leaves a across the enterprise by more than

VoIP’s Top Features
1. Access to online Duke
directory.
2. One-button access to
voicemail.
3. Easier access to logs of
missed, received and placed
calls, with details including
call length and date/time
stamp.
4. Customizable ringtones:
Choose from more than 30
and set up different ones for
different lines.
5. Background images: Select
one of five images: West
Campus, Duke Chapel, Duke
Marine Lab, the School of
Nursing or Duke Hospital.
N message.
That’s one of the reasons
Jameca Dupree, a financial analyst in
Duke Libraries, likes the new VoIP
(Voice over Internet Protocol) phone
service in her office.
One-touch access to call logs and
phone integration with Duke’s online
directory make her work, which often
involves calling vendors and payroll
representatives, a little easier.
“I like to see the calls I’ve missed,”
Dupree said. “I also love the
customized ringtones. When I have to
step away from my desk to go to the
file room, I can always recognize my
phone when it rings.”
Dupree is among thousands
of university employees who have
transitioned to VoIP service in the
past year. By the end of March, Duke’s
Office of Information Technology will
have completed the conversion of
11,000 university lines and 8,000
health system lines, with the goal
of converting another 14,000 health
system lines by the end of 2011.
When completed, the two-year
project will reduce phone service costs
$2 million annually.
The transition to VoIP, which
sends voice calls over existing data
networks, allows Duke to retire
outdated phone switches that are
costly to maintain and difficult to
upgrade, said Michael LaGoy, a
senior OIT analyst who has been
working with departments across
campus to review their telephone
service needs.
“We’re saving money on the
infrastructure by piggybacking on Diann King, clinical trials assistant at Duke, likes the new
the data network,” LaGoy said. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone service in her
“The upgrades – changing out office because, among other features, it lets her set
old network switches, adding new images like the Duke Chapel on the phone display.
battery backups – mean the data
network is much more reliable and “I like how easy it is to set your
robust.” user preferences,” said Diann King, a
VoIP also can enable increased clinical trials assistant in hematology
mobility for users – from moving a research. She spends about 20 percent
phone (and phone number) to another of her workweek conducting phone
location without paying for a service interviews. “There’s better sound
call, to linking voicemail with other quality, more functionality, better
services such as e-mail and instant usability, and I love the Duke Chapel
messaging. image display choice.”
For many employees, the new — By Cara Bonnett
service means one thing: phones that Managing Editor, News & Information
help them work more efficiently. Office of Information Technology

Learn more about VoIP at oit.duke.edu/vvw/telecom/voip/index.php

Don’t get scammed by cybercriminals

TIPS FROM DUKE’S IT SECURITY OFFICE

ay Webb, Duke’s costume shop coordinator, knows a

Protect K thing or two about people masquerading as someone

Yourself
• Don’t click on e-mail links
that request personal
information. Never access
an online account by
clicking on a link in an
unsolicited e-mail.
Instead, open a new
browser window and type
in the correct Web
address.
• Ignore pop-up windows
that say your computer
has a virus. They
commonly download
malware to your system.
• Forward suspicious
e-mails, with full headers,
to help@oit.duke.edu.
they’re not.
That’s why she was surprised when she almost fell
victim to a recent e-mail that looked as if it came from
Duke’s IT Security Office. It was actually a “phishing”
attack aimed at luring Webb into clicking on a dangerous
internet link that took her to a site that wanted her NetID
and password.
“Usually, I look out for stuff like that,” she said. “This
was a sneaky one.”
The e-mail – sent in November to Duke faculty and
staff – asked Webb to click the link to update her e-mail
e-mail, said Rachel Franke, a Duke security analyst.
account. But that link led to a phony website, where
Clicking on a bad link also can turn control of the victim's
scammers could collect Duke user names and passwords to
computer over to the attacker, who can then use it to steal
get personal and financial data.
data or hijack online financial accounts.
Fortunately, Duke’s IT Security Office was alerted to
“Any infected or compromised computer puts the
the scam and quickly responded by blocking access to the
entire Duke network at risk,” Franke said.
phony site from the university’s network.
One rule of thumb, she said: Duke IT personnel will
But that phishing attempt won’t be the last. Duke faces
never ask for a user name or password in e-mail, so don’t
similar attacks about once a week, and scammers are
give up that information.
constantly trying new tricks to steal your personal data,
From now on, Webb said, she’ll call the OIT Service
security analysts say.
Desk if she’s ever unsure about a fishy-looking e-mail.
Nationally, phishing attacks spiked 200 percent from
“I don’t think most people understand how it works,”
May through September 2009, according to IBM’s X-Force
Webb said. “But if you have any doubt, don’t click.”
research team, which monitors vulnerabilities, exploits and
active attacks, viruses and other malware, spam, phishing — By Cara Bonnett
and malicious web content. Many phishing attacks target Managing Editor, News & Information
Web mail and social networking accounts. Office of Information Technology
Valid Web mail accounts, in particular, are considered
highly valuable “virgin” assets, useful for sending out spam

Visit Duke’s Security Office at security.duke.edu for current threats.

Volunteering for Science
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

visit the clinic five times over six weeks to receive different doses of the
vaccine and have their blood tested for antibodies.
The study team posted fliers and listed the study online, “but after
the local media interviewed Dr. Chip Walter, the principal investigator,
the floodgates opened,” said Kathy Lattimore, a clinical trials assistant on
the study team.
Among the 100 volunteers who enrolled in eight days was Falletta,
the senior chair of the Duke Institutional Review Board.
“I volunteered because I didn’t want an upcoming trip to China
disrupted by the flu,” he said.
As someone who reviews clinical trial protocols on a daily basis,
Falletta appreciated seeing first-hand how the study team treated each
individual. “Doing research on people is a privilege,” he said, “not an
inalienable right.”

Elaine Ray, right, receives tips from Center for Living
exercise physiologist Leslie Willis. Ray, a financial analyst at
Duke, worked out daily for a year at the Center for Living as
part of a clinical study on exercise and wore a heart rate
monitor, right.
Ray’s dedication to the study was intense.
She had a near perfect attendance record, and even took her monitoring
equipment on vacation, most recently to Las Vegas. “I just strapped on
the monitor and walked up and down the strip,” said Ray, who is 60.
For completing the trial, Ray received $300 and an additional year’s
free membership to the Center for Living fitness club.
“I enjoyed the original study so much that I enrolled in several sub-
studies,” Ray said. “Being involved in studies helps keep me looking and
feeling young.”
Common Ground
Employees participate in research on their own time, but
their involvement in scientific discovery often affects their job
at Duke.
Lisa Anderson, the clinical trials assistant who
participated in a study to learn how women respond to the
breast cancer treatment drug Tamoxifen, said that being a
participant helps in her work with patients.
Routines like having blood drawn and completing long
questionnaires enhance understanding and remind Anderson
why she continues to volunteer for trials: maybe, just maybe,
she can help defeat the cancer that killed her mother 10 years ago.
“I sometimes tear up when I describe the importance of clinical
trials,” Anderson said. “It brings back memories of my mother. But every
once in a while, a patient will mention that they, or someone they know,
has had their breast cancer treated with Tamoxifen. And I think, ‘Hey, I
helped make that happen.’ ”
— By Marsha A. Green
Senior Writer, Office of Communication Services

Four trials, nine months

Jennifer Wilson’s busy lifestyle lends itself best to quick bursts of Editor’s Note: In reporting this article, Working@Duke asked researchers to query clinical
participation in scientific studies. She has volunteered for four clinical trial participants to see if any would be interested in sharing their experiences.
Participation in clinical trials is confidential, but the employees featured in this article
trials in nine months.
volunteered to be included to help raise awareness about clinical trials.
“I base my choice in large
part on how much time is
involved,” said Wilson, a clinical
trials assistant II in the
Department of Biological What’s a clinical trial?
Psychiatry.
In October, she gave a blood A clinical trial (also clinical research) is a research
sample and had her scalp study in human volunteers to answer specific
photographed in the health questions.
Department of Dermatology for Through clinical trials, researchers at Duke
a study about hair loss and iron learn which approaches are more effective than
Jennifer Wilson received this image of her brain
levels in blood. “I did that one on as part of a two-hour clinical trial study on mood others. A number of treatments that are now
my lunch hour,” she said. “It was and nutrition. standard were first shown to be effective in
quick and painless, and I came clinical trials.
away about 20 minutes later with $15.” Scientists may conduct clinical trials to
Earlier last year, a scan of Wilson’s brain helped further research in accomplish a variety of research goals. The
the area of mood and nutrition. different types of clinical trials are:
“I’ve always wondered what it would be like to have an MRI,” she
said. “When I saw a flier recruiting healthy people for a study involving ■ Treatment trials, which test new drugs,
an MRI, I signed up.” medical devices, medical procedures, or
She scheduled vacation time to participate in the two-hour study and came combinations of treatments
away with a CD of images of her brain and $80. “I don’t do it just for the ■ Prevention trials, which look for better ways
money,” said Wilson, who is 39, “but it is nice to have some to splurge with.” to prevent diseases through medicines,
vaccines, vitamins, minerals, or lifestyle
Fighting Flu changes
In late summer of 2009, Duke was one of 10 sites conducting trials ■ Screening trials, which look for new ways to
of the H1N1 flu vaccine for the government. The timeline was tight. test for the presence of a disease or health
Duke needed to find 130 adult volunteers quickly and schedule them to condition
■ Quality of life trials, which explore ways to
improve comfort and quality of life for
Find a Trial chronically ill individuals

䡵 Dukehealth.org
Source: dukehealth.org
䡵 Clinicaltrials.gov, a national registry of all clinical trials
in the U.S.
䡵 Check newspapers or campus bulletin boards
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 Duke police to bike 250 miles
in honor of fallen officer
CHARLES CALLEMYN SERVED THE DUKE AND DURHAM POLICE DEPARTMENTS

sk Duke police Sgt. to Washington, D.C., during National Police Week in May.

A Mark Faust why he’s

Want to help?
To donate to Team
Duke, go to the ride
website
lawenforcementunited.
org and select “Donate
Now,” or call Duke
Police Sgt. Mark Faust
at (919) 684-4115.
pedaling 250 miles in
May, and the answer is simple.
“Callemyn,” he says.
Charles J. Callemyn was
killed in a single car accident
Feb. 17, 2007, while
responding to back-up an
officer on a traffic stop. He
lost control of his car on
Holloway Street and struck the
underpass of North Carolina
Highway 70 in Durham.
At the time, Callemyn
Former Duke Police Officer Charles was a Durham police officer
Callemyn, left, with his mother, Cathy
Carter, a Duke employee. Callemyn
with six previous years of
police service at Duke, where
served with the Duke University Police
Department from 2000 to 2005 before
his mother works. He was
joining Durham police. He was a veteran
of the U.S. Marines. 33, a father of two.
“There’s a lot of people
you work with and some become friends,” Faust said.
“Charles was more than a co-worker to me.”
In honor of Callemyn and other fallen officers, Faust
and Duke sergeants David Johnson and Rekayi Isley
formed “Team Duke” and will bike in the Law
Enforcement United Memorial Ride from Chesapeake, Va.,
They will be among more than a thousand riders from
across the country who stream into the District of
Columbia and gather at the National Law Enforcement
Officers Memorial for the annual National Peace Officer
Memorial Day services.
Callemyn’s mother, Cathy Carter, will be there May
13 to watch the procession of cyclists and participate in
the services. Her son’s name is among the names of more
than 18,600 other fallen officers carved in the memorial’s
marble walls.
“Charles would be touched to know that the guys are
still thinking about him, still remember him and want to
do this in his honor,” said Carter, a 30-year Duke employee
and assistant director of the Arts and Sciences facilities
office. “Our family is excited.”
To ride as a team, Faust and the other Duke riders
must raise $4,500. Proceeds will benefit the memorial and
other police charities like the Officer Down Memorial
Page website.
For Johnson, the Duke sergeant on Team Duke, the
ride will have another special connection to his friend and
former colleague: he’ll be on Callemyn’s bike.
“It’s just a matter of being part of a group that cares to
do this for fallen family,” Johnson said.
— By Leanora Minai, Working@Duke Editor

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Duke Libraries
hile the economic downturn has hurt sales in many
By the Numbers
10
Number of Duke libraries
W industries, the consumer spending slump has been
beneficial for one group in particular – bookworms.
Many bibliophiles are turning to libraries to borrow
books for free, and it’s no different at Duke, where the
5,000 library system saw a borrowing increase of 16 percent from
New items every month 2008 to 2009.
Duke employees like Julia Portwood-Mallory make the
6 million short walk to Perkins or Lilly libraries instead of shopping
Total volumes
at the bookstore.
60,000 “The first time I went over to Perkins, I just wanted to Stephen Goranson, a stack maintenance assistant at Perkins Library, puts
Magazine/serial look up a book to see if it was available, and I didn’t really books back into shelves. Duke University Libraries feature six million total
volumes.
subscriptions think that employees could check books out,” said Portwood-
Mallory, an administrative assistant for Iron Dukes. “I love
25,000 being able to walk right over, easily check something out with “I like to use Duke’s libraries because it has resources
Films
my DukeCard, and I can take it home to read.” the public libraries don’t and I can find more obscure
297,000 Portwood-Mallory started working at Duke in 1991, books,” Smith said. “I almost never buy a book anymore
Circulation at Perkins but it wasn’t until last year she started using the library because I always use a Duke library or public library.”
Library, including renewals almost every month to borrow books or read magazines Employees can also download books on topics like
from a selection of more than 60,000 serials. business or robotics or view photographs and advertisements
380,000 “There’s such a great variety,” she said. “And of course, from around the country that date back more than 100
Items shelved at Perkins it doesn’t cost anything.” years to view on their computers or mobile devices. They
Library (includes returns and But the benefit of the Duke libraries isn’t just for the can also try to find favorite books in movie since the
new books) latest best-selling reads. Employees can also borrow CDs, libraries have a collection of more than 25,000 films.
DVDs or even laptops and Kindles. “We really do have something for everyone,” said
1.7 million Steve Smith, a professor in the Department of Michael Finigan, head of Access and Delivery Services
Gate count (traffic into
Perkins Library)
Biomedical Engineering, has used the libraries to borrow for Perkins Library. “Even if we don’t have something in
books on science, travel and a collection of photos of meteor particular that someone wants, we’ll see that we get it
(Figures based on 2008-09
impacts throughout the world. He regularly uses interlibrary from a library that possesses it.”
academic year) loan, which allows Duke libraries to find books for members — By Bryan Roth
of the Duke community from other libraries around the Writer, Office of Communication Services
Triangle, state or country – and have them delivered.
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YO U R S O U R C E F O R G R E E N N E W S AT D U K E

How It Works
1 Visit a cashier at the
Great Hall on West
Campus, pay $5 and
Junior Kirsten Moy, left, hands her “Eco-Clamshell” to-go container to Thurman Walker, a Dining Services employee in the Great Hall. The reusable containers can
receive an “Eco-
be used at stations in the Great Hall on West Campus.
Clamshell” key ring
token.

Green dining to-go

2 When dining at the
Great Hall, give your
token to an employee
when ordering your
food or requesting a
wo or three times a week, Bisa Meek walks from the

T
Allen Building to the Great Hall for lunch.
Sometimes, she carries food back with her in a plastic
container.
She felt guilty throwing away the plastic container. Not
anymore.
Meek and more than 300 other Duke community
members recently made a change to reusable to-go
containers, which allow Duke to reduce waste because
fewer plastic containers are thrown away. With these new
“Eco-Clamshell” containers – which get their name because
they open and close like a clam – Duke saves money and
helps the environment.
“There are a lot of things I can’t change, and I can’t
influence, but I completely believe that every little bit
helps,” said Meek, an administrative assistant for Trinity
College of Arts and Sciences. “As everyone becomes more
aware of the environment and what it means to add to the
trash, little things like using a reusable to-go container can
add up to a big difference.”
That was the idea when a group of undergraduate
students studied reusable to-go containers last spring. In
addition to looking at how similar programs have fared at
other places like University of Florida and University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill, students studied behaviors
at the Great Hall, where they found almost half of the
customers used plastic to-go containers that can rarely
be recycled because of sanitary specifications.
When students shared their report with Andrea
Myrick, Duke’s green purchasing program coordinator
for Procurement Services, the decision was easy.
“There’s so much waste that’s being created with to-go
containers because even if students or employees are dining
in the Great Hall, they’re still using them instead of plates container.
and trays,” Myrick said. “If that’s the preference, then we
needed to see what we could do to get rid of the waste.” 3 After using the
The new clamshells are like current to-go containers container, rinse it out,
used at the West Campus eatery, except they’re made of bring it back and leave
environmentally-friendly polypropylene, a type of hard it in the drop station
plastic. The containers can be washed and reused, as to be cleaned and
opposed to being thrown away. After use, diners drop off sanitized.
the container at a station near the cashier. The containers 4 Once your container
are then run through the same sanitizing process as other is in the drop station,
plates and utensils. head over to the
Students and employees who want to participate pay cashier to pick up a
$5 to join the program with cash, credit, food points or the replacement token.
Flexible Spending Account accessed with a DukeCard. The The token can be
containers are only available and used in the Great Hall on turned in for a
West Campus. container for another
The start-up cost of the container program is funded meal.
through the Sustainable Duke Green Grant Fund
established by Executive Vice President Tallman Trask.
It supports projects that yield environmental, social and
economic benefits to Duke and the Durham community.
Kirsten Moy, a junior active in several student-run
sustainability groups, said that using a new container is a
comfort she’s happy to have – knowing that she’s doing her
part to make Duke greener. VIDEO:
“I’m excited for the awareness that it’s bringing because
it shows we’re excited to do our part to help the See how the “Eco-
Clamshell” works
environment,” she said. “Hopefully this will get people
thinking about reassessing how much waste they contribute
during the day.” at dining.duke.edu
— By Bryan Roth
Writer, Office of Communication Services

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C am Kelly was on a hunt for that special shoe.
She wanted a pair that absorbed the shock of walking
and was kind to her back. She saw an ad for MBT, the
“anti-shoe,” in the pages of MORE, a women’s magazine. She
was eager to try the shoes, but the $250 price tag put a
damper on the idea.
Kelly got good news when she opened a recent e-mail from
PERQS, Duke’s employee discount program. The Walking
Company in Cary and Raleigh offers a 15 percent discount to
Duke employees. She called the store in the Cary Towne
Center and confirmed it carried the MBT brand.
“The discount gave me additional motivation to go out and
try them on,” said Kelly, assistant vice president for principal
gift programs in University Development. “The salesperson let
me put them on and walk around the mall. I loved them.” Cam Kelly, assistant vice president for principal gift programs in University
Development, ties her MBT “anti-shoe” before a walk with her dog, Duke.
She left the store wearing MBT sneakers, having saved more
She bought the shoes with PERQS, the employee discount.
than $35.
Kelly has had the shoes a year now and wears them to shop, To get the discount, employees must show their DukeCard
walk her dog, Duke, and cruise through airports on business and photo ID. The discount applies on all purchases (excluding
trips. “They are somewhat peculiar looking shoes, and I have gift cards and UGG products).
been stopped many times in airports by people wanting to
“I just went back over the holidays to buy a pair of Dansko
know more about them,” she said. “But they certainly are
clogs I wanted,” Kelly said. “I don’t often see these shoes on
comfortable.”
sale, so the PERQS discount sealed the deal.”
Comfort is at the core of The Walking Company’s philosophy.
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