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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
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changes proposed �
Council recommended
Campus
the establishment of dormitories for seniors to
specifically
plete projects
com-
theses.
or
ALEX GARINGER
By
The Chronicle
At
special
a
Council
the
FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES of Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson, assistant professor of environmental policy, enter the
Monday.
A
reception
Chapel
Friends remember beloved ALEX GARINGER
Garcia-Johnson telling
The Chronicle
Assistant
Professor
of Environmen-
The
Hutson,
he
walked in to teach her first seminar at
hundred
people
the Nicholas School of the Environment
Chapel Monday
and Earth Sciences three years ago and
Johnson,
stared at
at age 34.
the fledgling first-year
mas-
for her memorial service Most
professor
teel
graduate students.
woman,
a
mother and have I’m
people think
nice,’”
a
small,
a
high voice,
now
Hutson
Andrew
student
I’m
because
know,
the
houses
on
fittingly with
James Watson
and
with
coincided
anniversary of
the
that
genome
The
human
the
Policy,
diseases such
on
as
the genetic
origins of
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
and autism, among others. While the official
opening
celebration took 160
terday, the center’s
place
yes-
researchers,
pro-
and other
fessors, physicians
the
probationary
IGSP,
come
has real-world
cessitate “It
a
puts
with
an
nificant
role
ineirie
in in
a
ly
person
can
you
was
just
members
who
one
of
a
number of
students and fami-
shared
their
of Garcia-Johnson at the
touching and often
somber,
humorous memori-
In
the
linked
house-cen-
a
iors
the
recommending
houses,
the
for
on
have
campus,
classmates
campus
housing like
the
senior-only
notes
legislation
currently
their
that
sen-
little incentive
as
a
large portion
live in
in
apartment or
of
off-
cheaper,
Belmont
to
com-
Erwin
Square apartments. “The class
al service.
as
quad-centric labeling system
plexes
memo-
well
dormitories.
live
teacher.”
as
one-year
emphasis
unity...
in
housing
is to build
but seniors sort of
get
left
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new
on
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page 10
human
genetics
on
page 8
center
on
how far
hepatitis
genome
to
play
a
sciences
City
t0
Authority
a
as
and
from
multigenic
plans
to
influenza or
cancers
The ef-
sequencing
issues
that
a
pointed
can
be
to-
sequenced
raises,
genome
including
patented
and
of genomic informationby health
companies.
These
concerns
the heart of what the Center for
Genome Ethics, Law and er
as
that
mutations.
focus its
whether genomes
at
envi-
complex diseases.
many
use
stem
gene,
Willard and Pericak-Vance
the
delin-
diseases such
CHG
on
Margaret
that
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arise
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center within the IGSP—will
HUNTINGTON WILLARD,
sigbut
Council discussed the
corporation
for
of diseases that
diseases
in
autism
Alzheimer’s,
genomics,
implications that ne-
re-
genes
address,
and complex
are
Area Transit
a
caring
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mentor and
for
period
Campus
a
to-
which
director of CHG,
ronmental diseases such
insurance
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as
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Hutson
ries
Duke,
or
West
genome
targeted
medicine,
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50 years.
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of
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The revolution in
sized,
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ward
who commented
genomics has
with
at
professor
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the most
Main
It also calls for
Quadrangle.
recom-
“senior-only”
the purposes of diagnosing diseases.
employees
duction from Huntington Willard, director of
be
The CHG’s motivation is
forts
moved in last November. The celebration began
interaction
opening of
from mutations
in the Institute for Genome Sciences and focuses
have
being
good friend, adviser,
the
just
cancer
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exist —monogenic
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friends, colleagues,
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announcement of
sequencing
was
Francis
and
week’s
last
who died last week of
approached
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the discovery of the DNA double helix
by
remember Garcia-
was
“‘Shhhh!’ Ronie said. T know that I’m
Center for
yesterday
the 50th
in the
gathered
hyphenated
from
of
creation
policy” Willard said.
grand opening of the
Human
several
cover!’” Hutson
my
“Apart
the resolution
notably,
mends
and asked her to explain.
third-year
remembered
MALAVIKA PRABHU
Genetics
who to
of
group
her at the University of Michigan, Hutson
The Chronicle
The
a
nature from his
IGSP celebrates By
told
don’t blow
nice;
membered.
Familiar with Garcia-Johnson’s gen-
ter’s students who sat in their first class
‘“You
“Tm
comment took the wind out of
tal Policy Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson
as
the class.
here to tell you that I’m not.’”
changes
one-year-old housing policy.
housing system, By
life
resolution
a
calling for several significant to the
held afterward at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.
was
Campus
residential
governing body approved JANE HETHERINGTON/THE CHRONICLE
of
meeting
Monday,
provide
See CHG
appointment
of
a
security service for Durham
buses. See page 3
on
grand
page 9
President
they plan
George
director of the
W. Bush’s
campaign strategists
said
the to kick off the re-election campaign around
second anniversary of the
Institute for Genome Sciences and
Policy,
speaks
at the
opening of the Center for Human Genetics Monday.
Sept.
11 attacks. See page 5
The World Health rate for
people
Organization
announced that the death
suffering from SARS
percent since its outbreak
in
has doubled to 5.6
mid-March. See page 6