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Duke and the National University of Singapore announce a partnership to establish that country's first graduate medical school.



Duke introduces a new three-week parental leave benefit for staff.



Duke becomes the center of a new biodefense initiative involving investigators from six regional universities.



Commemoration of the 100th anniversary of "The Bassett Affair" starts.



President Nan Keohane receives the Marshall Medal from Prince Charles of England.



Richard H. Brodhead, dean at Yale University, is named Duke's ninth president.



George McLendon, chairman of the chemistry department at Princeton University, is named the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences to succeed William Chafe, who returns to teaching.



Justin Walker, a Duke senior and a Republican, spends two months on the Democrats' campaign trail, chronicling his impressions in regular dispatches to friends back at Duke.



A panel on "The Politics of Academic Freedom" debates whether the political affiliation of faculty members matters.



Kimerly Rorschach, director of the University of Chicago's David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, is appointed the new director of the Nasher Museum of Art.



Victor J. Dzau, MD, is appointed the new chancellor for health affairs at Duke University and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, succeeding Ralph Snyderman, MD.



John V. Brown starts the summer as the new director of Duke's jazz program. Earlier in the spring, as part of an attempt to make performing art events more accessible, Duke announces its students will only have to pay $5 for most tickets.