Posts Tagged ‘duke university’

Anthony Drexel Duke

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Professionally he has been Vice President of Duke International Import/Export Company, President of A.D. Duke Realty, Inc., Director of the American National Bank and served on the Executive Committee of the Florida Growth Fund. His distinguished military career commenced in 1941 as Assistant Naval Attache in Buenos Aires. He has been honored with Honorary Doctorates [...]

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UMBC Student Wins Miss Maryland Pageant

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Oh, how the iPhone rumors keep flying. A press report claims Iranian assets have been withdrawn from Europe ahead of new sanctions. Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the presidential press service. Rising prices and falling property values send UK consumer confidence to new lows, the BRC said. The Federal Government yesterday granted [...]

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Gettysburg College To Break Ground For New Athletic Center May 30

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

The project calls for a 55,000 square foot building to connect with the school’s current Bream-Wright-Hauser athletic facility. The new Center for Athletics, Recreation and Fitness will include a pool with eight competition lanes, a weight and fitness room and multipurpose spaces for classes like yoga, Pilates and spinning. Gettysburg College Provost Janet Morgan, who [...]

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Duke Inches Toward Autonomous Robo-surgeons

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

For their experiments, the engineers started with a rudimentary tabletop robot whose eyes used a novel 3-D ultrasound technology developed in the Duke laboratories. An artificial intelligence program served as the robots brain by taking real-time 3-D information, processing it, and giving the robot specific commands to perform. In a number of tasks, the computer [...]

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Hubie Brown’s Take: Toronto @ Detroit, 2nd Half

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Or the hyperbole of Bill Walton during any of the playoff games he works? After his brief professional career concluded, Brown coached at the high school level for nine years, and then briefly served as an assistant coach at both the College of William & Mary and Duke University. This experience on the court more [...]

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