Marie Lynn Miranda, head of the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative at Duke, uses sophisticated modeling to tackle stubborn public-health problems. Originally published in Duke Magazine. LAST FALL, DURHAM COUNTY HEALTH DIRECTOR Gayle Harris faced a thorny question: How do you get a confused and suspicious public inoculated against H1N1 influenza? The much-feared flu strain had […]
A Human Disaster
Gushing pipes, surface slicks, and oiled pelicans—the visible impact of the BP spill was all too apparent. But the invisible toll on people may be every bit as pernicious. An interview with Steve Picou. Originally published in OnEarth. In June, when oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill washed up on Orange Beach, Alabama, 400 yards from […]
School of Hard Knocks
Record numbers of women are enrolling in for-profit career colleges, hoping for better lives and high-paying jobs. Instead, too many are ending up with useless diplomas and staggering debt. Originally published in Good Housekeeping. AFTER HER DIVORCE FIVE YEARS AGO, Yasmine Issa realized she could no longer afford to be a stay-at-home mom. She’d taken two […]
Crude Awakening
Right here in North America could lie the answer to our energy needs. But at what cost? Mining the tar sands of Alberta threatens to strip the world’s largest intact forest of its ability to hold carbon and to wipe out the breeding grounds for millions of birds. Originally published in Audubon. ON A BREEZY JULY […]
Living on the Edge
Millions of older Americans don’t have enough money to put food on the table, but the government doesn’t count them as poor. How did this happen—and what’s being done about it? Coming soon: a segment on Prime Time Radio profiling three family matriachs struggling to pay the bills.
Truckin’ My Blues Away
This is a music-rich hour-long radio documentary about four older Southern bluesmen—Boo Hanks, Little Freddie King, Captain Luke, and Eddie Tigner—and folklorist Tim Duffy, who is working to promote them on the world stage. It tells the story of the North Carolina-based Music Maker Foundation. The documentary was originally broadcast in 2010 and aired on […]
Pragmatic Problem Solver
Tim Profeta, comfortable among scholars and respected within Capitol culture, brings a sure hand to the delicate task of inserting good environmental research into the national legislative discourse. Originally published in Duke Magazine. TIM PROFETA, DIRECTOR OF DUKE UNIVERSITY’S Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, arrives one April morning at the Capitol Hill office of a Republican senator […]
108 countries or bust
A bold travel challenge is Helen Ebersole’s dying gift to her granddaughter. Originally published in University of Northern Iowa Today. IN NOVEMBER 2004, HELEN EBERSOLE issued a challenge to her granddaughter, Lindsey Alena Schill. Ebersole, who was then 87, belonged to the Travelers’ Century Club, an organization whose members have visited 100 or more countries during their […]
Tenure Tracker
In the heart of a deep recession, with most departments listing few openings and some withdrawing them as budgets continue to shrivel, Kelly Kennington, a newly minted Ph.D. in history, hunts for academe’s holy grail: a tenure-track position. Originally published in Duke Magazine. December 2008 For the past seven years, Kelly Kennington Ph.D. ’09 has kept […]
Work Plan
Maytag’s departure left a small Iowa town’s economy reeling. Today, however, workers are building wind machines instead of washing machines, and validating studies about the enormous potential of green-collar jobs. Originally published in Audubon. AT THE EDGE OF A CORNFIELD, inside a sprawling, low-slung brown building, a Midwestern town’s dying economy is humming back to life. Newton, […]
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