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ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH YEAR, ISSUE 40 Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle
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To mixed results, Duke bridges gap between online and classroom Ryan Zhang Special Projects Editor Editor’s note: This article is the first of a twopart series examining online education at Duke. Today, The Chronicle looks at how professors have embraced massively open online courses and adapted these tools for the physical classroom. Tomorrow, The Chronicle will investigate Duke’s future of online education. Through online education, Duke faculty have brought their classes to the farthest reaches of the world while furnishing a stronger on-campus experience—though some professors have found integrating digital strategies into the physical classroom to come with a steep learning curve. The proliferation of massive open online courses, commonly known as MOOCs, started in 2012 with the emergence of national platforms such as Coursera and edX. Duke has offered MOOCs through Coursera since
Duke football overpowers Pittsburgh in 51-48 doubleovertime win Brian Mazur The Chronicle Not perfect, no problem. The Duke defense looked far different from the fourth-best scoring defense in the
nation, but it made plays when it needed to. The Blue Devils and the Panthers put on an offensive clinic Saturday afternoon at Heinz Field, with quarterback Anthony Boone throwing for 266 yards and three touchdowns. But it PITT 48 was a key stop by the in the secDUKE 51 defense ond overtime that proved to be just enough to put Duke in control of the ACC Coastal Division for the second straight season, winning 51-48 on a
five-yard touchdown run by wildcat quarterback Thomas Sirk. “Our defensive coaches were resilient,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “There are just days where things don’t go your way and you can’t lose [your players]. We had something left in overtime. After that kind of a day, we had something left in overtime to get a stop and force a field goal.” After Pittsburgh quarterback Chad Voytik See Football on Page 7
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Hospital Halloween: ‘Nice to have a distraction’ Potential Ebola patient
admitted to Duke Hospital Grace Wang Health & Science Editor
special for the kids.” Duke Children’s Hospital—through the Child and Adolescent Life Program—holds an annual Halloween parade and festival each Oct. 31. This year marked the 19th anniversary of the program where children and staff members dress in costumes ranging from policemen to princesses. The Halloween party, like other Child and Adolescent Life Program events, aims to give hospitalized children the same exposure to childhood experiences in a home-awayfrom-home experience. The kids—carrying trick-or-treat
A patient displaying potential symptoms of Ebola was admitted to Duke University Hospital Sunday. Duke announced the news in a University-wide email Sunday evening, and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services held a press conference less than an hour later. The patient arrived in the United States from Liberia Friday, entering through Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, and showed no symptoms of the disease upon arrival in the U.S. The patient does not exhibit any symptoms other than fever and is currently isolated in a secure unit within Duke Hospital. The patient arrived in North Carolina Saturday and developed a fever Sunday morning in Person County, approximately 40 minutes from Durham. The Center for Disease Control was notified, and the individual was then transferred to Durham to be admitted to Duke Hospital. The patient’s blood sample will be sent to the State Laboratory of Public Health in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the result of the evaluation should come out Monday morning.
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Sarah Waters The Chronicle Dressed as the blue-striped Dory from “Finding Nemo,” 9-year-old Savannah Henderson celebrated her fourth consecutive Halloween at Duke Children’s Hospital. Savannah has had 30 brain surgeries due to infections. Her two-year-old sister, dressed as Nemo from the movie, had open heart surgery last month. “You can see, she’s busting out of the seams, she’s very excited,” said her mother Aimee Henderson. “It’s nice to have a distraction. They do a good job here, making it
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