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HighlightsThe Graduate School announced that its FY 06-07 budget will include resources to pay the health insurance premium for fully funded PhD students who choose to enroll in the Duke student health plan. Information Sciences and Information Studies, an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the study and creation of new information technologies and the analysis of their impact on art, culture, science, medicine, commerce, society, and the environment, was created. With a special grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Graduate School hosted a Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) Alumni Reunion and Ten-Year Celebration during late July. The primary goal of SROP is to increase the number of minority students earning PhDs in the biological sciences. The graduate student population is increasingly diverse and includes nearly one-half women and nearly one-third international students, with 13% of the student population drawn from U.S. underrepresented groups. The Preparing Future Faculty program expanded to include 34 doctoral students and 6 postdoctoral fellows. Awards and recognitionAcademic Programs Duke’s Master of Arts in Teaching Program received a $448,484 grant from the National Science Foundation to prepare science and mathematics teachers to work in public high schools identified as being in high-need school districts. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Duke University, the Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies devoted its entire Fall 2005 issue to the creative and scholarly work of current MALS students and alumni. The Graduate School’s first promotional video, “Duke University Graduate School: Where Your Presence Matters,” received two awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE District III): a Special Merit Award in Slide and Multimedia Programs category and an Award of Excellence in the CD-ROM Publications and Other Electronic Communications category. People James R. Bettman, Burlington Industries Professor of Business Administration; Lisa M. Campbell, Rachel Carson Assistant Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy; and Linda Orr, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, received the Graduate School’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring. Associate Dean Jacqueline Looney, 2006 Sammie Award for Community Betterment, the 2005 Duke University Blue Ribbon Diversity Award, the 2005 Graduate and Professional Student Council Administrator of the Year Award, and the Spring 2005 Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award. Appointment
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Jo Rae Wright, professor of cell biology, was appointed dean of the Graduate School and vice provost, effective July 1, 2006.