T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y
The Chronicle
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH YEAR, ISSUE 141
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Filmmaker Duke grads face ‘volatile’ job market Sayles wins LEAF Award by Danielle Muoio THE CHRONICLE
Filmmaker John Sayles has won numerous awards but never before for environmentalism. Sayles, a novelist and filmmaker known for producing movies outside Hollywood studios, was awarded the 2012 Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts Award Saturday. Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, led the ceremony that featured selections from Sayles’ films and a reading from his latest novel. “[Sayles’ films] range from the allegorical to the historical, from the comic to the tragic,” Chameides said. “But through them all runs a common environmental thread with a profoundly important message not on the fragility of nature but of the power of nature.” Established in 2009, the LEAF Award is given to artists whose work inspires others to take action to protect and steward the environment, Chameides said. Past recipients are actor and filmmaker Robert Redford, musician Jackson Browne and author Barbara Kingsolver. When Chameides called Sayles to notify him that he received the award, Sayles’ only response was, “Why me?” Chameides noted, however, that Sayles’ work represents the sort of lifetime of artistic achievement that the LEAF Award recognizes.
THE REBOUNDING WORKFORCE
PART 1 OF 3 by Sanette Tanaka THE CHRONICLE
By Fall 2007, then-senior Molly McGarrett considered herself as good as employed. After completing an internship for a large foreign bank over the summer in New York City, she snagged an interview at another bank before classes began. By November, she had an offer. But as the economy worsened, so did the job outlook for Duke students. McGarrett’s offer was rescinded in April 2008, prompting her to restart her job search. Approximately SEE JOBS ON PAGE 4 DATA FROM THE DUKE CAREER CENTER EXIT SURVEYS
CHRONICLE GRAPHIC BY DENNIS OCHEI
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Nanoly wins Start-Up Challenge by Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE
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John Sayles was presented the Duke Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts Award Saturday.
At the 13th-annual Duke Start-Up Challenge finale, Nanoly—an undergraduate-led vaccine distribution project—took home the $50,000 grand prize. Three teams pitched their business plans to a group of 12 judges at the competition’s final round Friday. The event, which took place in Geneen Auditorium at the Fuqua School of Business, marked the end of the student entrepreneurship contest, which began in November. The event featured keynote speaker Richard Lee, founder and former CEO of Hosted Solutions LLC— an information technology consulting company based in Raleigh. Nanoly, was the overall winner out of a record 118 student startup businesses that entered the contest, said Olgun
Kukrer, co-president of the Start-Up Challenge and second-year MBA candidate. The other two competing finalists were neurosurgical innovator CranioVation and electricity-access project Zamsolar. In selecting the winner, the judges’ votes were weighted 80 percent, and the audience members’ votes were weighted 20 percent. “All of the prize money will go directly to project expenses,” said junior Ting-Ting Zhou, co-founder of Nanoly. “We need to raise $1.5 million to advance from research to commercialization.” Nanoly’s product, NanoShield, is a polyethylene glycol-based polymer that would enable vaccines to be transported and delivered without refrigeration, Zhou said in her pitch. She noted that SEE NANOLY ON PAGE 4
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Nanoly won the $50,000 grand prize in the annual Duke Start-Up Challenge Friday.
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