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Carin to succeed New Science Drive garage to reduce parking waitlist Siedow as vice provost of research by Grace Wang The chronicle
Lawrence Carin, chair of electrical and computer engineering, has been selected as the next vice provost for research. Carin will replace James Siedow, who is stepping down this year after 12 years in the position. The job’s main features include facilitating funding for research—both from the government and from industry sources—as well as managing regulations and issues with compliance. Carin was selected for his breadth of experience and commitment to interdisciplinary research, colleagues noted. “I want Duke to be a place where you can be extraordinarily successful in your research, and I don’t believe that there are very many fundamental barriers of success here, ” Carin said. “My job is to go find whatever obstacles exist and try to move them.” The decision to appoint Carin was made by a committee of Duke faculty. One of the many things the committee looked for in a candidate was “a strong advocate for the University’s research mission in the context of the University’s strategic commitment to internationalization, interdisciplinarity and knowledge in the service of society,” committee member Michael Therien, William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of Chemistry, wrote in an email Wednesday. During Carin’s twenty years as a professor at Duke, he has brought in millions of dollars of research funding and founded a successful company—Signal Innovations Group in Research Triangle Park—Therien noted. See Research, page 8
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Construction has caused students, faculty and staff to raise complaints about parking. A new parking garage on Science Drive will offer space for staff and graduate students by 2016. by Rachel Chason The Chronicle
Responding to increased demand for parking spaces, the Board of Trustees approved plans to build a new parking garage in their meeting last month. The Board approved funding for the planning and design of the 2,000-space garage in response to complaints from
students, faculty and staff about the availability of convenient parking on West Campus. Although the plans will not address undergraduate parking concerns, they will ease overflow for faculty and graduate students. The garage—which will be built on the northwest corner of Cameron and Science Drives in the space occupied by the 751 lot—will provide
relief to the more than 2,200 graduate students and staff currently on the waitlist for parking on West Campus. The project is still in its initial design phase, but construction is scheduled to begin in August 2014 and to be completed by April 2016. See parking, page 8
Downtown Durham apartments see unprecedented growth by Aleena Karediya The Chronicle
Downtown Durham saw significant growth in apartment buildings this year—and more is on the way. Of all new apartment buildings in North Carolina, 17 percent are being built in the space between downtown Durham and Duke, said Scott Selig, associate vice president of capital assets and real estate. This growth is a reflection of Durham’s evolution as a city, and it can lead to the betterment of downtown as a whole, he said. “The apartment development community has realized that people want to
live in Durham now,” Selig said. “They used to want to live in Cary, northwest Raleigh and Briar Creek. Duke is such a large employer that people can live, work and play in Durham at equal and lesser cost than other locations, since they already come here to play.” Selig noted that the target residential populations are most likely graduate students and workers in the Triangle, because undergraduate students have a three year on-campus residence requirement. He said that undergraduates nonetheless have much to gain from this growth, despite their lack of direct benefits.
“The developments that have been taking place now have spurred other developments across the downtown area, such as shops, restaurants and nightclubs,” he said. “Durham is quickly becoming a place that millennials want to live in.” Shonda Jenson, who lives in a newlyconstructed apartment building downtown, recently moved to Durham as a consultant and has enjoyed the city as an employee and resident. “We all want a good time while making a living. Durham offers that at a low cost, plain and simple,” she said. These benefits have caused many to
see Durham as a city that can be compared to large metropolitan areas of the United States. Selig referenced “The New Geography of Jobs” by Enrico Moretti—a book he recently pulled out at a meeting with the Durham Rotary Club—which says that Durham, San Francisco and Boston are “brain hubs, with workers that are the most productive on the planet.” Selig added that this quote highlights the growth in culture that Durham has undertaken over the past few years. He said that by sheer size, downtown DurSee Construction, page 8