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Students and faculty members nosh on finger food Thursday night at Nashers4—a celebration of the late-1970s New York nightclub Studio54—held in the Nasher Museum of Art, PAGE 7.
Although friends call them “Harold and Kumar” after the marijuana-smoking title characters in the 2004 flick, two residents of Randolph Residence Hall said the substances seized from their room in an April 3 raid by Duke University Police Department officers were a far cry from contraband. Plastic bags containing “leafy-green vegetable matter,” white powder and 119 unidentified pills were confiscated from the third-floor room, according to a police blotter. But the freshmen wrote in a jointly authored e-mail that what appeared to be illegal substances were merely oregano, powdered sugar and vitamin C supplements. Maj. Gloria Graham, DUPD operations commander, declined to comment on the investigation or whether the substances seized from the room had since been identified. March 25, nine days before the raid, DUPD investigators viewed “a bundle of green leafy substance” in the room through an open door when responding to a complaint of marijuana odor, but could not enter because the residents were not present to consent to a search, according to a police report. The incident raised a red flag for the residents, who wrote that officers could
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The year 1998 was good for medical researchers —especially Dr. Kristin Newby. Congress passed legislation seeking to double the budget of the National Institutes of Health—Bs percent of which is spent funding research—over the next five years, and Newby, an associate professor of medicine at Duke’s School of Medicine, had just received one of the agency’s most prestigious awards. The grant, known as the K award, helps launch the careers of young researchers and financially supported Newby’s work on risk factors for heart attacks in women until 2003. A decade later, Newby finds herselfpredominantly funded by the private sector after several grant proposals to the NIH, including two for the prestigious ROl Research Project Grant, were not approved. The ROl grant, which provides the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to open a lab, hire staff and purchase equipment, has long been regarded as the NlH’s most important award, and scientists unable to
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