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Councils hear update on academic integrity By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle
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Florida State’s Marcell Haywood tries to drive by Clemson’s Will Solomon in last night’s opening game in Atlanta. Solomon hit a key three-pointer to seal the win for the lowest-ranked team in the tournament. See story, page 11. Clemson goes on to play first-seeded North Carolina today at noon. Second-seeded Duke faces off against seventh-seeded N.C. State at 9 p.m.
The Academic Integrity Assessment Committee spoke about the state of academic dishonesty yesterday at the first-ever joint meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council and the Engineering Faculty Council. The committee concluded that faculty must play a larger role in addressing the issue, which is a growing problem nationwide. “What we’re seeing consistently in the 2000 and 2001 surveys [is that] Duke faculty, compared to their colleagues, are doing less to promote academic integrity,” said ALAC Co-chair Elizabeth Kiss, director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics. The most recent survey of Duke faculty members indicates that faculty at other honor code institutions are twice as likely to promote academic integrity—through both dialogue and action—than those at Duke. Sophomore Missy Walker, co-chair of the Honor Council, said faculty should play a larger role in the process. “You’re not just our school masters,” Walker told them. “We’re watching you, and we’re taking notes, literally and figuratively. What you do impacts us.” Faculty response to the presentation by Kiss, West and Associate Dean for Judicial Affairs Kacie Wallace was notably sparse, but members of both councils will have the opportunity to discuss the issue at another joint meeting in April. Kiss also presented the four recommendations of the ALAC: the creation of
an academic integrity council, the mobilization of faculty to promote academic integrity, the clarification and review of academic integrity policies and the publication of a faculty brochure. The new council would have several functions and would serve mainly as a coordinating force for academic integrity projects. In particular, Kiss said, it would examine the growing trend of Internet-related dishonesty. The AIAC also noted several inconsistencies and outdated material in current Duke policies. “Information about Duke’s policies... is currently scattered through different University documents,” the proposal reads. “These See COUNCILS on page 10
NCSU, UNC announce major genomics initiatives By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle
“Our plan is one of the most unique in the country and that’s why I think it’s going to be successful,” said Terry Magnuson, Sarah Graham Kenan professor of genetics and director of the genomics initiative. “We have made a major financial commitment; the school is really dedicated to this research.” In addition to constructing four new buildings funded by November’s $3.1 billion bond referendum, UNC will spend more than $5O million recruiting 40 new faculty members. The initiative’s implemented have begun raiding faculty from the na-
The race to unravel the mysteries of the genome just got a lot more competitive. This week, officials at North Carolina State University announced that they will launch a $3OO million initiative in genetics and bioinformatics, which will include a smaller genomics component. This comes only two weeks after the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill announced a $245 million initiative to make the school one of the nation’s leaders in genome sciences. The interdisciplinary UNC initiative will unite several schools and detion’s top research universities. Alpartments within the University in ready UNC has hired seven top scienthe pursuit of genomics—the study of tists from schools such as Stanford and Vanderbilt universities. DNA sequences that define an organism’s genetic code. By mapping DNA UNC also received an anonymous sequences, scientists hope to pinpoint $25 million gift to create the Michael the genetic origins of many diseases Hooker Center for Proteomics. The and, one day, use such knowledge tocenter, named after the late UNC wards the application of cures for dis- chancellor who died in 1999 of cancer, See GENOMICS on page 10 eases ranging from AIDS to cancer. *
UNC’S GENOMICS INITIATIVE, directed by genetics professor Terry Magnuson, above, just received $245 million to make the school one of the leaders in the field.
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