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summerinbrief February. The president and provost extended an initial offer to one of these candidates, who eventually withdrew to accept a position elsewhere, Lange said. A new search committee is renewing the process this summer. Current Sanford Dean Bruce Kuniholm will stay on in his position through the coming year until a successor is found. “We pursued a candidate, and he took a while to decide, and he chose not to accept the position,” Lange said. “Obviously, we’d like to get the person we go after. Often that happens but not always.” Lange did not confirm the identities of the candidates. The search committee met with Lange in mid-May to continue the process, said Elizabeth Frankenberg, professor of public policy and sociology. Lange and Brodhead asked Frankenberg to take over the com-
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Since graduation in May, the pace of campus life has slowed a bit. Swinging benches on the Bryan Center Plaza are easy to come by, and pushing through masses to find space on a bus is unnecessary. Nonetheless, activity at Duke has by no means ceased. The Chronicle has selected a handful of news highlights from the first summer session in Durham. Search for new Sanford dean continues In May, administrators revealed that a shortlist of three candidates for the position of dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy did not yield a taker. The faculty search committee, which began the dean search last Fall, presented three names to President Richard Brodhead and Provost Peter Lange in
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mittee as chair for the next leg of the search. Applied policy experience, combined with solid academic credentials would enhance what a candidate could bring to Sanford, search committee member Jacob Vigdor, a professor of public policy and economics. said. Coley steps down as Robertson director On May 31, Woody Coley announced his resignation as director of the Robertson Scholars program. Coley was the fourth director in the program’s 12year history, and stepped down after only a year. His decision—which resulted from tensions among the program’s leaders and shifting organizational structure—followed the recent resignation of several other staff members, leaving the program without direction. Allen Chan, who has served as an internal consultant for the program, is currently serving as the interim executive director, said Fraser Seitel, spokesperson for Julian Robertson, the program’s benefactor and founder. In a May 31 email to scholars, Coley, former managing partner at the real estate consulting firm Value² Partners, LLC., said he chose to leave because his views on program governance differed from Robertson’s. “It’s fair to say they didn’t agree on everything,” Seitel said. Over the course of the past academic year, three other members of the seven-person staff have also stepped down—former Associate Director for Operations Jeanne Kirschner, now the administrative director for the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy; Abbey Greenberg-Onn, former assistant director for recruiting and selection; and Charisma Nelson, former staff assistant for selection and recruiting. Novel cancer drug stalls tumor growth In mid-June, Duke researchers developed a new drug to halt the spread of cancerous cells with fewer side effects. It took a while to get “just right,” but the drug T-DM1 both fights breast cancer and delivers fewer side effects, said Dr. Kimberly Blackwell, director of the Breast Cancer Clinical Program and a professor of medicine at the Duke Cancer Institute. In a Phase III clinical trial, advanced-stage breast cancer patients who were randomly assigned to receive T-DM1 saw their cancer growth delayed longer than patients in the control group that received standard drug regimens. The new drug combines antibodies with toxins to selectively target tumor cells without the slew of side-effects associated with chemotherapy. In the trial, women with metastatic breast cancer—cancer that is spreading to other areas of the body—were randomly assigned two different treatments: T-DM1 or the standard drug regimen of capecitabine and lapatinib. The study found that women who were given T-DM1 had no cancer growth for a median of 9.6 months, whereas women who received the other treatment saw no cancer growth for a median of 6.4 months. Women given T-DM1 also experienced fewer side effects than would be experienced with chemotherapy, such as hair loss, nausea and diarrhea. “It’s not just about the drug not hurting patients, it’s about the drug not hurting patients and helping them live longer—that’s the success story,” Blackwell said. Farewell to Divinity Refectory Despite student protests on the Refectory’s behalf, Duke’s sustainable cafe is leaving its Divinity School location this month. The eatery, which opened in 2005 and won numerous awards for serving the best food on campus, will move off campus to a new location on Chapel Hill Boulevard and will launch a food truck. The move comes after owner Laura Hall refused to pay a higher commission to Duke Dining. A yet-to-bedetermined vendor will be selected by Duke Dining to occupy the Refectory’s Divinity School location. Contract negotiations between Duke Dining and Hall stalled in the Spring after Hall declined to increase the annual commission she pays to Duke from 10 to 15 percent of gross revenue. With the