Working@Duke April, 2010 Issue

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WHY DUKE? New employees like Linda Hanna describe the value of working at Duke during a recession marked by record unemployment.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE

FIT IN FITNESS Is it tough to fit fitness into a day?

Working@Duke offers 10 ways to work in a workout on or near campus.

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GET IT LOCAL The Duke Farmers Market opens its 10th season April 23 on the lawn next to the Bryan Research Building off Research Drive.

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Team Behind the Team Kerry Mullenix, left, athletic rehabilitation director, Dr. Claude T. Moorman III, center, sports medicine director and Hap Zarzour, right, athletic training director, tend to an injured Duke football player in 2009.

DUKE ATHLETES RELY ON TRAINERS, REHAB SPECIALISTS, DOCTORS AND OTHERS TO KEEP THEM HEALTHY t the beginning of August, Duke football When players showed symptoms, the players were getting ready for practice by medical staff isolated them from practice and When these focusing on where the playbook told kept them in separate living quarters so others them to block and run when a player called an didn’t get sick. By Duke’s first game against the teams try athletic trainer complaining of bad body aches.

University of Richmond on Sept. 5, the team to win championships, Robert “Hap” Zarzour, then the head athletic had beat the flu bug. everyone has a role trainer for football, took the player to the Student “It could’ve been terrible, but because it Health Center, where tests confirmed he had the was such a team effort, things were manageable to play – from the 2009 H1N1 flu virus, known as swine flu. Several since everyone was doing their part – from the strength trainers to weeks before Duke’s home season opener, more people cleaning the buildings we work in to nutritionists to us.” than a dozen players were diagnosed with swine our physicians,” said Zarzour, now director of flu symptoms. athletic training. “We were getting calls from — Dr. Jeff Bytomski Lucky for them, they had Duke on their other schools around the country asking us Head Medical Team Physician side. And for the season kick-off in September, what we did and what they could do to Duke Athletics all the starters were on field. prevent a spread of swine flu.”

“The care for the team was incredible,” said senior quarterback But responding to seasonal viruses isn’t the only care the staffs from Thaddeus Lewis, a captain. “It was a difficult situation, especially given the athletics and sports medicine provide to Duke teams. timing of it all with preseason camp going on. We always hear that we’re Acting as the frontline of injury prevention, athletic trainers like Kristi lucky to be at Duke. where the medical staff is the best in the country, and Hall often work 10 to 12 hours a day – and that doesn’t count game days. that’s definitely right.”

Hall, who works with the rowing and fencing teams, is one of 11 trainers From the tackling on football fields in the fall to rowing on Durham’s who typically care for two teams and handles anything from a sprained Lake Michie in the spring, Duke athletes rely on the team behind the team – ankle to rehabilitation. the dozens of full-time athletic trainers, doctors, rehabilitation specialists and Unlike football, where players are more likely to suffer unexpected and sports medicine fellows at Duke – to keep them healthy on and off the field. serious injuries, Hall focuses more on preventing chronic injuries such as “It’s all about being a part of something bigger than yourself,” said tendinitis or inflammation of a joint or muscle, which are likely to happen Dr. Jeff Bytomski, the head medical team physician for Duke Athletics. to rowers and fencers.

“When these teams try to win championships, everyone has a role to play – When she came to Duke in 2006, Hall implemented a preventative from the strength trainers to nutritionists to us.” habilitation program with her teams that was created by physical therapists When football players started coming down with H1N1, the virus at Duke. The program runs athletes through tests to check muscle and joint could have spread quickly, affecting more than just a dozen players. strength and flexibility before a season starts to find potential injury But Zarzour and other members of the training staff held meetings problems. By finding problems early, Hall makes sure athletes strengthen throughout the summer, working preemptively to aggressively treat weaker joints like a knee, so they don’t get injured later. any potential outbreak.

“You don’t want to just react to injuries,” said Hall, who cares for more From the first day on campus, doctors and trainers educated coaches than 70 student-athletes. “You want to make sure you’re doing everything and players on techniques to stay healthy like washing hands often and you can to prevent them.” reporting any health problems. The head medical team physician for Since Hall became the first full-time trainer for the rowing team, head Athletics set up a twice-a-day clinic where players went for health coach Robyn Horner said her team has had the healthiest period in more evaluations to check for fever and flu-like symptoms or to learn more about H1N1.

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llison Vorderstrasse, an assistant professor in Duke’s School of Nursing, is a new contributor to Duke’s employee giving campaign.

Having worked at Duke a little more than a year, she earmarked her donation for programs that will improve access to healthcare through neighborhood health clinics and schoolbased wellness centers.

The sour economy motivated her.

“The current economy in general has made me realize that sharing resources is more important than ever,” Vorderstrasse said.

In fact, during tough financial times, Duke employee giving increased 13 percent during the 2009 “Doing Good in the Neighborhood” campaign to a total of $554,642. The campaign supports the Durham community through the Duke Community Giving options, or through the United Way of the Greater Triangle.

In 2009, $289,052, or 52 percent of all donations, was designated for Duke Community Giving options, up from 44 percent in 2008. The remaining $265,590 was raised for United Way. “Given the ongoing challenges in the economy, we are especially proud of the generosity of the Duke family,” said Phail Wynn Jr., vice president for the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs.

Many Duke Community Giving options assist local agencies supported by the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership and Duke University Health System. No administrative fees are deducted from them.

“For me, it feels good to give not only financially, but to join in volunteer programs that help people directly,” Vorderstrasse said. “And in nursing, we are in a wonderful position to help many.”

To learn more, visit community.duke.edu

Deadline for reimbursement accounts

Tune in to new Duke video website

April 15 is the deadline for submitting Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Account receipts from 2009. Faculty and staff must submit all receipts by April 15 for services provided from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2009 to receive reimbursement. Receipts can be scanned and submitted as attachments to an e-mail or submitted online. Learn more at hr.duke.edu/benefits/reimbursement.

“Duke on Demand,” a new Duke website, pulls together videos from across campus, highlighting speakers, research findings, live events and more. The new site represents a higher-education version of video sites such as Hulu that have emerged in recent years; it is available at ondemand.duke.edu.

The site’s recent offerings range from a discussion of the ethics of paying for organ donations to a series of campus pranks by the Blue Devil mascot to a conversation about global health challenges. There are nearly 2,000 videos now on the site and more are added daily.

“You can think of ‘Duke on Demand’ as a kind of online TV channel that is constantly broadcasting the best of what goes on at Duke,” said Michael Schoenfeld, Duke’s vice president for public affairs and government relations. “Students, alumni and anyone else looking for interesting material can watch whenever it’s convenient for them.”

Reducing emissions from ground up Take the Green Devil Challenge, Duke’s new effort to encourage students, faculty and staff to take specific actions to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Each month, a new challenge will be issued to encourage individuals to make small changes in their daily lives that will help reduce emissions at Duke. For information about the Green Devil Challenge, visit sustainability.duke.edu.

Employees can also reduce their carbon footprint by choosing eco-smart ways to commute during the 2010 Smart Commute Challenge April 15 to May 15.

Last year, 625 Duke employees used alternative transportation to get to work.

Learn more at smartcommutechallenge.org.

Online book discussion April 21 Stephen Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, will share his thoughts on the novel “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett on April 21 during the final DukeReads of the academic year.

Nowicki chose the narrative of a South American hostage crisis because it engaged him intellectually and emotionally. “My favorite books are always those that transport me deeply into their place and time, and Bel Canto certainly did that for me,” he said.

DukeReads is a free online book discussion that connects Duke faculty with thousands of viewers through video, e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. Watch and join the conversation at 7 p.m. April 21 on ustream.tv/dukeuniversity.

New process for computer purchases As part the Duke Administrative Reform Team (DART), a new standard process has been developed for the purchase of computers across Duke.

The Duke Computer Purchasing Program was developed to take advantage of volume purchasing to negotiate better pricing and extended warranties through preferred vendors: Dell, Lenovo and Apple. The negotiated discounts and extending the useful life of computers and servers is projected to create an annual savings of about $2 million.

The pricing is based on standard configurations for three different user levels, which were established by a group of faculty and IT support staff across the university. The different levels will support those who mainly use standard office software, enterprise applications and the web to those who perform heavy data collection and analysis or use graphic-intense applications.

Details about the program are available on the Duke Computer Store website at dukestores.duke.edu, or call (919) 684-8956 for more information.

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Volunteer and give back with ‘DukeConnects’

Duke engineering professor Gary Ybarra leads an effort to boost the number of local children entering scientific fields through the Engineering K-PhD program.

or more than 20 years, Gary Ybarra has worked five to 20 hours a week making sure it’s not just his own students at Duke who are enthusiastic about math and science.

A professor in the Pratt School of Engineering, Ybarra spends his free time organizing a Duke program that places engineering students in Durham’s elementary and middle schools to help teachers create fun math and science lessons.

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better,” said, Ybarra, a volunteer and director of the Engineering K-PhD program. “You can personally make a difference in the lives of people and the community – and it’s a two-way gift that improves your life too.”

Duke’s Office of Durham and Regional Affairs hopes more faculty and staff will follow Ybarra’s lead during April’s launch of “DukeConnects,” a new community engagement initiative to help employees find volunteer opportunities and keep track of hours online.

The initiative will launch with the “DukeConnects Challenge” that starts April 18, at the beginning of National Volunteer Week, and lasts through May 16.

As part of the program, a new portion of the Durham and Regional Affairs website will allow employees and departments to search for volunteer activities and create a profile to track hours. The DukeConnects Challenge will act as a competition similar to Shape Up Duke, the health and fitness challenge. After “DukeConnects” ends, the site will be available for faculty and staff to find volunteer opportunities and track their experiences.

Prizes will be awarded at the end of the DukeConnects Challenge to the individual with the most volunteer hours and the department with the highest average of hours logged per employee.

“I expect that DukeConnects will bring new and greater attention to what we all know to be true. By fulfilling the university's mission of

Get Involved with DukeConnects 1. Visit community.duke.edu/volunteer, click the “DukeConnects” tab and enter your NetID.*

2. Create your volunteer profile by providing name and e-mail. (The profile is used to track volunteer hours).

3. To find organizations to volunteer for and to log hours, click “Volunteer Opportunities” on the website after completing your form.

4. After you volunteer, log into your profile to share your volunteer information, hours and pictures of the experience. *The DukeConnects site will be live on or before April 18.

knowledge in service to society, the Duke community can have considerable impact in the community at large,” said Phail Wynn, vice president of Durham and Regional Affairs. “We hope this competition and the new features of our website will help expand the culture of service at Duke.”

Jessica Sheffield, an assistant in the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, set up a volunteer profile to log her hours volunteering with the Animal Protection Society of Durham. She and her husband, Glenn, have volunteered with the organization for more than a year, walking and playing with dogs.

“We don’t want to neglect the needs of our own city,” she said. “We have more time to give than money, and it feels good to do something helpful with your time and skills.”

Learn more at community.duke.edu

— By Bryan Roth Writer, Office of Communication Services

Why Duke?

New staff describe value of working at Duke hen Phil Nousak lost his job as an IBM data analyst in 2008, he decided to look for work at a local research institution with solid benefits. While he collected unemployment benefits, he explored Duke’s website for jobs and applied for 35 positions over the course of a year.

As weeks of being unemployed mounted, so did sacrifices. Nousak and his wife stopped dining out, and they dipped into their savings.

“We weren’t as badly off as many, but we had to give up luxuries. I really hated not going to the U2 concert,” Nousak said. “Thankfully, my wife still had a job, and she was patient enough to let me keep searching for the perfect job.”

After 42 weeks on unemployment, Nousak landed a job at Duke in January of this year as a database analyst for a program dedicated to preventing child abuse and strengthening families in the local community.

His long search for work is not unusual: unemployment in North Carolina hit a record 11.1 percent in January 2010, compared to 9.2 percent in January 2009.

“It’s been a difficult two years for folks in North Carolina,” said Larry Parker, spokesperson for the North Carolina Employment Security Commission. “And this recession hasn’t been limited to manufacturing or textiles. It has hit people in every job sector.”

Record numbers of people have been applying for work at I like being Duke. In 2009, over in a place 124,000 applications were submitted to where I can follow Duke University and through with projects Health System. and know that they Including faculty and staff hired on are making a research grants, the difference to people.” university hired — Phil Nousak 2,151 new employees Database Analyst, Center for Child and Family Policy in 2009, down from 2,688 the year before.

“In order to address our budgetary issues, the university workforce must continue to become smaller over the next two years,” said Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for Duke Human Resources. “That will be done primarily through attrition in the coming years as people leave and their positions are not refilled. We are not under a hiring freeze because there will continue to be hiring of faculty, research funded positions and critical staffing roles for the institution.”

More that 450 jobs have been eliminated through voluntary retirement programs and tight control of vacancies since February 2009. In addition, for 2010, eligible university employees earning $80,000 or less will receive a one-time payment of $1,000 in their July paychecks. This lump sum helps save about $22 million. Last year, no salary increases for faculty and staff earning more than $50,000 protected about 200 jobs and prevented more than $18 million in added annual costs.

“These careful and strategic steps have allowed Duke to avoid large-scale

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layoffs and protect the benefits that Duke offers as part of its total compensation package, unlike many local employers and other institutions of higher education that have had sizeable, system-wide cuts,” Cavanaugh said.

On average, for every dollar an employee earns, Duke contributes an additional 25 cents toward benefits. These include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, retirement programs and other benefits such as tuition assistance. Last year, Duke invested $400 million in benefits for University and Health System employees, and that number continues to grow. For the 2009-10 fiscal year, Duke increased its investment in benefits by $25 million to maintain the level of coverage for benefits such as health insurance, retirement savings plans and education assistance.

Duke’s benefit package drew Linda Hanna to seek a job at Duke last year. She joined the Fuqua School of Business in December as an executive assistant after being laid off from Kraft Foods in 2008. To pay bills after that layoff, she joined with a previous colleague in a start-up business in Raleigh, but with a tough economy, the company floundered for revenue, and her hours and salary were reduced.

“I put my all into it, but by the summer of 2009, my savings were dwindling. It was clear I needed to find a more stable job,” she said.

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After five months of networking and combing through job listings, she landed an interview at Duke. “I was over the moon when I got the call asking me to come for an interview,” she said.

Hanna said she was impressed by the health care choices and savings available to employees through PERQS, the I never employee discount thought that program.

I could actually have “I never thought that I better benefits than at could actually have the large corporations better benefits than I’d worked for. When I at the large corporations I’d saw the multitude of worked for,” she employee benefits on the website I felt like said. “When I saw I had hit the jackpot.” the multitude of employee benefits — Linda Hanna Executive Assistant, Duke Fuqua School of Business on the website I felt like I had hit the jackpot.”

Competitive pay, valuable benefits and stability are important draws for employees like Hanna and Nousak, the database analyst who joined Duke earlier this year. But both also said they value being a part of a world-class university.

“I like being in a place where I can follow through with projects and know that they are making a difference to people,” said Nousak, who works for the Durham Family Initiative in the Center for Child and Family Policy.

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— By Marsha A. Green Senior Writer, Office of Communications Services

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Fitting in ack of time is a leading excuse for not exercising, but you can overcome this hurdle by scheduling exercise into a daily routine.

“It can be as easy as standing up and walking out the door for a 10-minute walking break,” said Liz Grabosky, fitness program manager at LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness program.

Health experts recommend that individuals perform at least 30 minutes of daily exercise that noticeably increases the heart rate to maintain or improve health.

Is it tough to imagine how to fit fitness into a day? Working@Duke offers 10 ways to work in a workout on or near campus.

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Ruby Sinreich, new media strategist for the Franklin Humanities Institute, walks a roundtrip one-mile between the bus stop near the Duke Chapel and her office on Erwin Road each day.

“I get time to listen to music or news, and I get some exercise along the way,” she said. “It’s an upward spiral: the better I feel, the more active I want to be.”

Duke’s 45 miles of sidewalk offer employees ample opportunity to walk. A brisk 15-minute walk can burn 80 to 100 calories, depending on speed and an individual’s weight.

“Walking is a great workout, especially if you push yourself to a brisk walk after the first few minutes,” said Victor Ornelas, LIVE FOR LIFE fitness specialist.

Employees also have easy access to nearby trails, including the 2.8-mile Al Buehler trail around the Duke University golf course, the 1.7-mile gravel path around the East Campus perimeter and 5 miles of trails in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens.

Ruby Sinreich, new media strategist for the Franklin Humanities Institute, walks to her Erwin Road office each day from the bus stop near Duke Chapel.

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LIVE FOR LIFE offers a convenient way to exercise without leaving your desk through “Take Ten: Energize Your Work Day.” This self-paced program describes exercises employees can perform at their desks or workstations including wall push-ups and chair squats. Studies show that brief periods of physical activity during a workday help reduce stress and tension.

Learn more at hr.duke.edu/taketen.

 John Fay, an instructor at the Nicholas School of the Environment, fits in a 20-lap swim three days a week at Duke's Wilson Recreation Center.

Swim laps

John Fay, an instructor in the Nicholas School of the Environment, stays in shape by swimming 20 laps three days a week in Duke’s Wilson Recreation Center on West Campus. To keep his rhythm during the 45-minute workout, he often listens to music on an underwater iPod. “I try to push myself a bit, but I do need to maintain energy for the rest of the day,” he said.

He also pushes himself to get to the pool early enough to snag a lane. “I really value the opportunity to swim during the day, but it is often quite crowded,” he said.

“It would be great if the gym could reserve lanes for faculty and staff.”

The pools at Duke’s Wilson and Brodie Recreation Centers are open to center members. LIVE FOR LIFE offers individual memberships through the Duke Fitness Club for $15.83 per month.

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Dr. Barbara Sheline bought her home in the Duke Forest neighborhood partly so she could pedal to her family medicine clinic on Erwin Road. The 3.4-mile bike ride is along rolling roads and “hilly enough to give me a workout, but not so much that I get too hot and sweaty,” she said.

Employees who register as bicycle commuters at Duke and forego a parking permit receive 24 daily parking permits each year for days they must drive to work.

Visit parking.duke.edu for more information.

 Gloria Graham, Duke's assistant police chief, squeezes in a gym workout before work or during her lunch break five days a week.

Hit the gym

As a mother and Duke’s assistant police chief, Gloria Graham’s schedule is packed and somewhat unpredictable, but she manages daily sessions on treadmills and weight machines at Wilson Recreation Center.

Wilson is one of 20 gyms in the Triangle available at a discount membership to employees through LIVE FOR LIFE’s Duke Fitness Club program.

On days when Graham doesn’t drop her daughter at childcare, she fits in an hour workout soon after the gym opens at 5:30 a.m. On other days, she tries to get to the gym at lunch.

“My goal is to take care of myself by working out five times a week, and I do that by squeezing it in whenever I can,” she said.

For discount gyms, visit hr.duke.edu/fitness.

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That’s why Keisha Martin, a patient account associate in Transplant Collections at the Patient Revenue Management Organization, organized her co-workers to take advantage of their two, 15-minute breaks.

She and four to six colleagues gather in the back of their office and pump iron with hand weights or pump up their heart rates with grapevines, jumping jacks and other aerobic moves.

“We just sort of make up moves each day,” Martin said. “But we make sure we stay on top of each other to stay motivated.”

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Celeste Hodges, a web developer for the computer science department, climbs 50 steps five times each day in the Levine Science Research Center.

“It’s not terribly exciting, but getting six or seven minutes of exercise on the stairs is something I can do every day regardless of weather conditions,” she said.

At seven to 10 calories burned per minute, climbing stairs burns nearly twice the number of calories as strolling on level ground.

Earn LIVE FOR LIFE dollars by enrolling in the LIVE FOR LIFE Stairwell Challenge at hr.duke.edu/stairwell.

Catch a class Maurice Todd Jr. jogs through chest deep water each Monday afternoon during an aqua aerobics class offered at Duke’s Brodie Recreation Center.

Aqua aerobics is one of several free group exercise classes offered to Brodie and Wilson recreation center members.

“I saw a poster saying this was not your granny’s workout, and they are right,” said Todd, an equipment distribution technician for Clinical Engineering, who attends the class after his shift ends. “Afterwards, I can really feel my muscles.”

Check the class calendar at duke.edu/web/intramural/fitness or call (919) 668-4389 for group fitness or (919) 613-7537 for aqua aerobics.

Celeste Hodges, web developer for the computer science department, climbs stairs at the Levine Science Research Center five times during lunch.

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Ever wanted to box?

Employees like Mia Martinez get group exercise through LIVE FOR LIFE, which offered boxing lessons among its classes in January. Martinez paid $48 for eight weeks of boxing lessons.

“My kids think it’s funny that mom is learning to box, but they always ask me to show them what I’m learning,” said Martinez, who provides desktop IT support for Duke Health Technology Solutions. The lunchtime class fits well into her schedule, “although I still have to wear my pager during class, just in case someone needs me,” she said.

LIVE FOR LIFE classes vary through the year but generally include aerobics, yoga and Zumba (a form of dance). Visit hr.duke.edu/eohs/livelife/classes.html for more information.

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When University Development moved to the West Village office complex in downtown Durham, Vera Luck saw an opportunity.

Since last summer, the program coordinator and yoga instructor has led free, twice-weekly 45-minute yoga classes in donated space in a nearby building for her co-workers.

“I figured this was a no-excuses, totally accessible way for people to try yoga,” she said, “and for me to have some fun and get some extra yoga in myself.”

Della McKinnon, program coordinator for the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative at the Sanford School of Public Policy, boxes through a LIVE FOR LIFE course.

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Get paid to exercise Earn LIVE FOR LIFE dollars while you exercise. It’s as easy as 1-2-3.

1. EARN dollars by participating in LIVE FOR LIFE classes, events or self-paced programs.

2. CLAIM dollars by tracking exercise online or through logs provided

by LIVE FOR LIFE. 3. SPEND dollars on merchandise at the LIVE FOR LIFE store in the lower level of Duke South (Red Zone), or donate dollars to help young patients at Duke Hospital.

Learn more at hr.duke.edu/eohs/livelife/lfl_dollars.html — By Marsha A. Green Senior Writer, Office of Communications Services

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Vera Luck, program coordinator for University Development, leads a free weekly yoga class for her colleagues and co-workers.

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Free online tutorials help employees learn latest software

Professional Development On A Shoestring

LYNDA.COM PROVIDES LESSONS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE ancy Walden wanted to make it easier for employees in her office to transition to the latest version of Microsoft Word last summer. So she invited the group to get together, share some popcorn and watch videos.

Those video sessions – using online tutorials available free to Duke staff and faculty through the Office of Information Technology – helped familiarize the group with new features of the software, said Walden, an IT analyst with the Duke Medicine Institutional Review Board.

“This is a great resource, because it’s there when you have time to use it and when you’re ready to use it,” Walden said.

Through an OIT pilot program with Lynda.com, Duke users can access free online training on a variety of technology topics from Duke or at home. Lynda.com offers more than 42,000 online tutorials on topics ranging from Microsoft Excel and Adobe Creative Suite to Web design and computer programming.

Users can access the tutorials directly from the OIT site, using their Duke NetID and password. Thirty concurrent Duke users can access Lynda.com at one time, and a limited number of dedicated user accounts also are available for individual faculty and trainers.

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Meg Barker, a staff assistant at the Pratt School of Engineering, said she uses the tutorials as a refresher on programs and to build new skills for professional development. She especially likes the video format of the tutorials, which are structured so users can review one particular section without having to sit through an entire course.

“It’s much easier than reading instructions from a book or online help,” Barker said. “The video tutorials are like asking the person next to you, ‘How do you do this?’ and they come over and show you.”

More than 500 Duke staff, faculty and students have participated in the pilot since it began in 2008, viewing more than 67,000 online video tutorials, said OIT training coordinator Christine Vucinich.

Tutorials in Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office have been among the most popular with Duke staff, who comprise about 75 percent of program participants to date.

Allen Creech, IT analyst for the Center for Documentary Studies, said the tutorials provide a convenient way for staff, faculty and students to

Allen Creech, IT analyst for the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, encourages staff, faculty and students to use the online tutorials to learn more about multimedia technologies.

stay up-to-date on emerging web and multimedia technologies.

“It’s something they can get to whenever they want, and it gives them another option (for technical support), especially when I’m not always available,” Creech said.

The pilot will continue through June. OIT is considering extending the program, based on results of ongoing user surveys.

— By Cara Bonnett Managing Editor, News & Information Office of Information Technology

Learn more about OIT’s online technology training program at oit.duke.edu/training/online

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Music in the Garden Employees can purchase $5 tickets to the Wednesday evening Music in the Garden series in May, June and July.

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hen Professor Neil McWilliam considered moving from England to take a job at Duke, he wondered whether the Triangle area was host to a full cultural life.

dukeperformances. duke.edu

Duke Performances, with more than 50 performances a year, helped answer that question.

(919) 684-4444

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community. Last December, for example, 175 employees took a 25 percent discount on tickets purchased before Dec. 21. Deep discounts are also available during the summer Music in the Garden series, when Duke employees can purchase $5 concert tickets – halfoff the $10 public price.

“We looked at what Duke had Like Professor McWilliam, to offer, and UNC, and the Christina Chia, assistant North Carolina Symphony,” The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields will perform in Page Auditorium on April 16. director at the Franklin said McWilliam, a professor of Humanities Institute, Art and Art History at Duke. concerts they will attend during the appreciates the chance to attend “We were impressed with the academic year. They also take first-rate performances on campus. offerings, but Duke Performances, advantage of the 20 percent “The last performance I saw was the centrally amongst all of those things, discount on season tickets to enjoy amazing production of ‘Waiting for was very important in sealing the music ranging from the homegrown Godot’ by the Classical Theatre of deal.”

Ciompi Quartet to internationally Harlem,” she said. “It is incredible to known performers such as the Plus, Duke Performances offers staff have the opportunity to see worldAcademy of St. Martin in the Fields and faculty a 10 percent discount on class shows like that right here on from London. individual performances (with a two campus at an affordable price.” ticket limit per show).

“We generally both enjoy the same — By Marsha A. Green music,” McWilliam said.

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atherine and Michelle Foss enjoy farm-fresh strawberries as often as they can when the fruit is in season. Lucky for them, they don’t have to travel far to satisfy their craving.

Catherine and Michelle, mother and daughter who both work in the Health System, are regulars at the Duke Farmers Market, which opens its 10th season April 23 at the green space between the Bryan Research and Seeley G. Mudd buildings. The market runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Friday through July 30.

“We try to eat nutritious, fresh fruits and vegetables as opposed to frozen or canned ones because fresh things are better,” said Catherine Foss, a clinical research coordinator in Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine. “The food we get at the farmers market is healthier.”

Added her daughter, Michelle, a nurse in the Emergency Department, “I work 12 hour shifts, and I could go to the grocery store on my way home, but by the time I’m there, the fruit has been out all day.”

Strawberries aren’t the only popular item at the farmers market, which features more than 10 vendors selling produce and goods such as sweet potatoes, grass-fed beef and flowers. This year’s market will also have guest cooking demonstrations, music and more.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary, the market will have a theme of “10.” The first two weeks of the market will feature a booth with information about 10 popular locally grown products and 10 ways to become more sustainable.

Other themes through September include highlighting local restaurants, creative recipes and ways to support the Durham community through donations and volunteering.

While the Duke Farmers Market celebrates 10 years, its growth has been part of a larger trend.

The search for more local and nutritious foods has become popular across the country. The number of farmers markets in the United States has grown steadily with a total of 5,274 reported in 2009, compared to 1,755 in 1994, the first year the United States Department Agriculture began tracking them.

“I think it’s clear that the importance of eating locallygrown fruits and vegetables is a priority for employees at Duke and people throughout America,” said Diana Monroe, a health education specialist for LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness program and organizer of the famers market.

“We’re glad to be able to give people what they want in a convenient location during the workday.”

In addition to local products, shopping at the market is more sustainable than finding goods at a chain store, Monroe said. None of the foods are processed or contain ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup, and they’re transported a short distance, which means less carbon emissions are involved in getting the products from farm to fork.

Farmers like Richard Holcomb, who operates Coon Rock Farm in Hillsborough, take pride in the fact that they’re able to provide local goods. Holcomb travels about 15 miles to Duke, where he sells chemical-free produce like heirloom tomatoes.

“Most grocery stores sell produce that have been sprayed with a large number of chemicals and have an emphasis on how big something is and how it looks, not how it tastes,” he said. “Locally grown food is going to be healthier, safer and taste better. There really aren’t any negatives to shopping locally.”

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than a decade because rowers have been able to avoid recurring injuries like tendinitis, and players also healed more quickly when hurt. That presence has helped keep the Blue Devils one of the top rowing teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

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