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blue devils Down, but not out
The Blue Devils fell to Clemson 3-5 Wednesday in the opening game of the ACC Championship at NewBridge Bank Park in Greensboro, N.C. See story on page 4.
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Duke Marine Lab gains first new research space in 50 years by Grace Wang The Chronicle
With the opening of the Orrin H. Pilkey Research Laboratory earlier this month, the Marine Laboratory campus gained its first new research space since the 1970s. The lab includes a variety of facilities and teaching spaces and is named after Orrin Pilkey, James B. Duke professor emeritus of geology. Constructed primarily through $4.5 million from the Oak Foundation—a philanthropic entity that supports global, social and environmental issues—and a $1.5 million contribution from Kathy and
Philip Froelich, the building opened after two years of construction. “There has always been concern that the labs here [at the Marine Lab] are spatially separate from the main campus, that we are out of sight and out of mind,” said Pilkey, who first taught at the Marine Lab in the 1960s. “However, this time, we are still out of sight, but not out of mind.” Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, said the lab provides facilities for molecular biology and genomics research—two new focuses of the Nicholas School—as well as a new teaching space.
The Pilkey Lab also has a number of environmentally sustainable features. “The most significant thing about the building in an environment point of view, given that it is on the coast, is that it has been designed to withstand sea level rise and to withstand flooding—which will happen as a result of hurricanes,” Chameides said. Chameides noted that the building is designed in such a way that all significant equipment and electronics are on the second floor or above in order to prevent damage from hurricanes, which have struck the Marine Lab’s home in Beaufort on several occasions over the
years. The bottom floor is also designed to allow water to flush through with minimal damage. The decision to name the building after Pilkey was led in part by donor Philip Froelich, Trinity ‘68, a former mentee of Pilkey’s. “[Froelich] says that Orrin turned his life around, “Chameides said. “Orrin introduced him to marine chemistry, and [Froelich] is one of the world’s leading scientists now in marine chemistry.” Froelich met Pilkey after struggling with chemistry courses as a student See marine lab, page 8