Resources for Study

The Duke University Libraries include the six libraries of the Perkins Library System and the libraries affiliated with the Divinity School, the Fuqua School of Business, the Law School and the Medical Center. Graduate students can borrow books and journals from any campus library and can use most electronic resources, including electronic journals and databases, from anywhere on or off campus. The Web site at http://library.duke.edu is a gateway to all of the campus libraries, providing access to records of print and electronic materials as well as online forms and information about a variety of services.

All Duke students and faculty also have borrowing privileges at the libraries of North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These reciprocal privileges are a benefit of the libraries' membership in the Triangle Research Libraries Network, one of the oldest academic library consortia in the United States. The four TRLN library systems also cooperate in collection-building and preservation and the purchase of various online databases and services. TRLN's most recent innovation is a feature that provides access to the holdings of all four member libraries with a single search of the online catalog.

Checking out books and journals. Graduate students may borrow materials from any Duke library and return them to that location or any other campus library. Alternatively, they may also request that those materials be shipped to any library they specify for convenient pick-up or return. However, the length of the circulation period for books and journals varies from library to library as do renewal policies.

Reserving materials for course use. Guidelines for reserving materials for class use as well as submission forms for books, e-reserves, and videos are available at http://library.duke.edu/research/reserves/reserves_guidelines.html. These guidelines apply at Perkins Library. Contact the Divinity Library, the Law Library, the Medical Center Library, and the Ford Library at Fuqua to reserve materials at those libraries for your classes.

Reference/Research Assistance. Librarians at public service desks offer general and specialized assistance in the use of electronic and print sources and document retrieval. In addition to working with students and faculty at these service desks, reference librarians also assist users via telephone, email, chat reference, and IM. Chat reference assistance and IM are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and are accessible from the libraries' Web site at http://library.duke.edu/services/ask/.

Assistance with innovative use of technology in teaching and other work with students. The Center for Instructional Technology, a division of the Perkins Library System, supports the university's academic mission by helping instructors find innovative ways to use technology to achieve their teaching goals. For more information about the CIT and its activities, including Blackboard support, go to http://cit.duke.edu/home.do.

Assistance with copyright and other scholarly communication issues. The university's scholarly communications officer, a member of the libraries staff, is available to assist faculty and students regarding copyright use and ownership of digital and print material. For more information, contact Kevin Smith at Kevin.L.Smith@duke.edu.

The Divinity School Library serves the university with collections ranging across the entire spectrum of religions of the world. Areas of the collection in which particular strength has been built - in print, microform and electronic formats - include Biblical studies, Christian theology, American Christianity, Methodism, religious art and architecture, mysticism, and archaeology of the Near East. The library has significant and growing collections in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism as well.

Materials selection reflects the curricular offerings of the Divinity School and the Department of Religion at both the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as supporting the research programs of the faculty of both divisions and doctoral candidates in the fields of religion and theology. The faculty is welcome to send purchase requests to the library director.

Information about the Divinity School Library, including circulation policies and reference and instructional services, may be obtained from the library staff or from the library's Web site at http://library.duke.edu/divinity.

The Ford Library houses the principal business collections for the university, comprising 30,000 print books and journals and a comprehensive collection of e-books and e-journals. The library also offers a comprehensive career collection and an extensive media collection, including audio books on a wide range of topics. In addition, the Ford Library offers the latest technology in online business information and over 50 databases for business research, which are available to Duke graduate students worldwide.

While the Ford Library's collection is tailored to the curriculum strengths and research interests of the Fuqua School of Business, graduate students and researchers throughout the university are welcome to use library materials. Important areas of the collection are accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, health sector management, global business management, managerial economics, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations management. Recent acquisitions include key business issues in the curriculum, such as leadership, ethics, and the social responsibility of business.

Duke University graduate students have access to subscription databases from major business information producers such as Bloomberg, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Euromonitor, Factiva, Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, Gartner, Hoovers, Jupiter Research, Lexis-Nexis, Mergent, Morningstar, OneSource, ProQuest, Reuters, Standard & Poors, and Thomson. These databases contain information on companies, industries, and other topics of interest to students and researchers. Access to these databases is available in libraries and computer labs throughout the university, as well as on individual laptops anywhere in the world 24/7.

The Medical Center Library and Archives provides access to biomedical resources including more than 300,000 volumes of print books and bound journals as well as medical, nursing, and health sciences electronic journals and databases. The History of Medicine Collections house rare and unique materials, as well as current publications that capture the history and development of medical practice. The Medical Center Archives collects and preserves the institutional records and history of Duke Medicine through faculty papers as well as administrative and departmental documents. MCLA's collection supports Duke Medicine's mission and programs, including those of the schools of medicine and nursing, Duke Hospital and Clinics, and the research enterprise. However, faculty, students, and staff across the university have access to these educational and research resources.

MCLA provides a variety of services to assist faculty and students in using biomedical resources. In addition to its traditional reference services, the MCLA offers in-depth consultations to assist our patrons with identifying the most relevant information resources, searching the literature, evaluating the results, and learning how to use specific databases and information tools. Education services include tours and orientations, drop in classes on the use of the library and customized training sessions for departments and schools. Evidence-based medicine training is also available for faculty, students, and clinical staff. Another popular service is our EndNote training.

The MCLA Web page is the virtual gateway for those seeking biomedical resources and services. The MCLA has developed specialized subject guides including clinical tools and nursing tools pages, online tutorials, and evidence-based medicine resources. The Web site http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/ also provides more details about and links to library services.

The School of Law Library serves both the university and the local legal community. It is a major research collection of legal literature that includes reported decisions of federal and state courts, current and retrospective collections of federal and state codes, regulations, and session laws accessible electronically and in print. A full range of print and electronic indexes and other finding tools provide access to the primary sources. An increasing number of electronic databases for both general and specialized legal research are available through the Duke University Libraries online catalog.

The periodical collection includes current and retrospective access to all major law journals, bar association publications, institute proceedings, and newsletters. A large section of the library collection is devoted to treatises on all phases of law, and other social and behavioral sciences relevant to legal research. The library is a selective depository for United States government publications, with concentration on congressional, judicial, and administrative law materials.

In addition to its U.S. holdings, the library holds substantial research collections in foreign and international law. The foreign law collection is extensive in coverage, with long-standing concentrations in European law and business law materials, and growing collections in Asian and Latin American law. The international law collection is strong in primary source and treatise material on both private and public international law topics.

The reference librarians are experienced legal researchers, holding dual degrees in law and library science, and can assist in all facets of legal research and library use. For contact information and initial research guidance visit the Law Library Web page at: http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/.

The Perkins Library and the adjoining Bostock Library and von der Heyden Pavilion form the university's main library complex. The collections support the social sciences, humanities, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, physics, computer science, and astronomy/astrophysics and reflect Duke's emphasis on interdisciplinarity and the university's international focus. There are extensive collections from and about East and South Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the United States as well one of this country's largest collections of Canadiana. Complementing the print collections are electronic resources, including tens of thousands of e-journals, databases, and statistical tools. The library is a depository for United States, North Carolina, and European Community documents.

The holdings of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library (RBMSCL), located in the Perkins building, range from ancient papyri to the records of twentieth-century advertising. The collections support research in a wide variety of disciplines and programs, including African American studies, anthropology, classics, economics, history, literature, political science, religion, sociology, and women's studies. Among the areas of particular strength are the history and culture of the U.S. South, English and American literature, history of economic theory, British and American Methodism, and the history of modern advertising. Digital versions of selected materials from the RBMSCL are available at the library's Web site, http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/.

The Duke University Archives, part of the RBMSCL, is the official repository for records of the university, collecting, preserving, and administering materials that have continuing administrative or historical value. Recently, working together with the Graduate School and other campus units, the University Archives launched DukeSpace, a digital repository providing access to electronically submitted Duke dissertations, master's papers, university records, and other related digital content managed by the Archives. For more information, please see: http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/.

One additional Perkins System library on West Campus, the Biological and Environmental Sciences Library, focuses on botany, zoology, ecology, molecular and cell biology, environmental sciences, forestry, hydrology, and meteorology. A second library, the Pearse Memorial Library, is located in Beaufort, North Carolina, at the Duke Marine Laboratory. Its holdings are in marine sciences and policy-related aspects of the marine environment.

The Lilly Library on East Campus houses the university's research collections for the visual arts, art history, philosophy, and theater studies plus Duke's collection of more than 15,000 international and interdisciplinary feature films and documentaries and experimental and animated productions. Request videos for a classroom showing or place videos on reserve for the semester by submitting forms at http://library.duke.edu/lilly/film-video/reserve-form.html. Please allow three (3) working days for the processing of your request.

The Music Library and Music Media Center, also on East Campus, have a rapidly expanding collection of music scores, books, journals, and music-related media, encompassing more than 14,500 CDs, thousands of LPs, and hundreds of DVDs and VHS recordings. The music collection supports teaching and research in musicology, historical performance practice, and composition. Additional strengths include keyboard music (monographs as well as scores), music and art, and musical instruments.

The Office of Information Technology. Duke OIT supports and enhances teaching, research, and community service at the university through the effective management and use of information technology resources. This includes providing computing, telephone, and cable TV services and support as well as developing resources for the Duke Digital Initiative, www.duke.edu/ddi.

A walk-up OIT Help Desk office is located on West Campus to assist students with Duke-supported software, hardware, and services. The Help Desk provides support by phone at (919) 684-2200 and online at: http://www.oit.duke.edu/help.

Biological Laboratories. Facilities for graduate study in the Department of Biology are located on the West Campus, together with those of supporting departments (physics, chemistry, earth and ocean sciences, and the basic medical sciences). Scientists in plant and animal biology with common interests are clustered in two buildings: the Biological Sciences Building, and the French Family Science Center. The two buildings are physically connected and maximal interaction occurs between the different groups in biology through seminars, shared instrumentation and collaborative research projects. Special facilities include a shared DNA sequencing facility, animal rooms, greenhouses, refrigerated and controlled environment laboratories, environmental scanning electron microscopes, a confocal microscope, Model Systems Genomics computer support and facilities, a stable isotope mass spectrometry laboratory, and other modern research facilities. Extensive facilities for experimentation in environmental control of plant growth are available in the Phytotron adjacent to the greenhouses.

The herbarium contains approximately 700,000 specimens and includes notable collections of mosses and lichens. Other assets for teaching and research are the Sarah P. Duke Gardens on the West Campus; the eleven-acre experimental plot and field laboratory; the Duke Forest, comprising 7,900 acres of woodland adjacent to the West Campus; the field station for the study of ecology; and the Nicholas School's Marine Laboratory, an interdepartmental facility located on a small island on the coast at Beaufort, North Carolina, where twenty-two buildings and a small flotilla of ships and boats provide teaching and research facilities for resident graduate students and faculty as well as visiting individuals or groups.

Duke University, through the Department of Biology, is a member institution of the Organization for Tropical Studies, Inc., a consortium of universities with field station facilities in Costa Rica that provide opportunities for course work and research in tropical science.

Highlands Biological Station. Duke University holds a contributing membership in the Highlands Biological Station at Highlands, North Carolina, on the southern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains at an elevation of 4,118 feet. The station and the region offer an excellent opportunity for field studies and some laboratory work. A limited number of qualified students in biology may make arrangements to carry out research here. Scholarships for advanced study during the summer months are available through the station.

The Plant Teaching and Research Complex play an important role in supporting the university's objective by "engaging the mind and elevating the spirit." Through research, teaching, and extension, we sharpen the university's focus by:

The Plant Teaching and Research Complex is comprised of three separate facilities: The Phytotron, The Research Greenhouse, and the Teaching Collection. These facilities are dedicated to Duke University researchers and instructors.

The Phytotron. The Phytotron houses 44 growth chambers of varying sizes and six greenhouse units. Environmental factors controlled in these units include light, temperature, nutrients, carbon dioxide concentration, and humidity. Founded in 1968, the facility has a long and distinguished history of plant-controlled environment research, and is an important tool for global change research. It supports studies ranging from individual plant to whole ecosystem responses to changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and/or temperatures. The facility boasts a dedicated staff with many years of experience in controlled environment research.

Research Greenhouse. The Research Greenhouse, built in 2004, is equipped with some of the latest technology in greenhouse-controlled space. The total facility spans 12,676 square feet. This space encompasses eight growing zones separated by airlocks, and a propagation room. Growing zones are designed to stay within a three-degree set point.

Teaching Collection. (Temporarily housed in the Research Greenhouse.) Considered one of Duke's hidden gems, this diverse reference of plants is used for both research and teaching. The collection features over 1,500 labeled species hosting a variety of interesting and important genera, including aquatic, desert, tropical, temperate, rare, and endangered species. The primary function of the plant teaching collection is to serve undergraduate teaching at Duke University. Because of its uniqueness, this group also serves as a resource for world-renowned botanists as well as local school groups. In addition, we protect species on the list of rare or threatened plants by vouchering plants to other universities. For tours please contact Marcia Kirinus.

The Forest lies primarily in Durham and Orange counties, near the eastern edge of the piedmont plateau, and supports a cross-section of the woodlands found in the upper coastal plain and lower piedmont of the Southeast. A variety of timber types, plant species, soils, topography, and past land use conditions are represented. Elevations range from 260 to 760 feet above sea level. Soils of the region are derived from such diverse parent materials as metamorphic rock of the Carolina slate formation, granite, Triassic sedimentary rock and basic intrusives.

The Forest serves for teaching and research in such areas as ecology, forestry, zoology, and botany by faculty and students at Duke and neighboring universities. Background information useful to researchers covers such features as soils, topography, inventory, plantation and cultural records as well as a bibliography of past and current studies. Much information is available electronically through a Geographic Information System. Current work on issues associated with human impacts on the environment, and integrated approaches to natural resource management have multiplied the value and benefit of the Forest. Further information can be found on the Forest Web site: www.dukeforest.duke.edu or by contacting Judson Edeburn, Duke Forest Resource Manager, judeburn@duke.edu, A114 Levine Science Research Center, Duke University, Box 90332, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0332.

Coastal Simulation Lab. Dr. Brad Murray's lab and equipment include 5 Silicon Graphics computers (2 O2workstations, 2 Octane workstations, and 1 Origin 200 server) and a Linux PC, with with a total of 8 processors. Along with students, postdocs, undergraduate assistants and visiting scholars, Dr. Murray has used these machines chiefly for developing and running numerical models of surface processes. At times, all the processors are kept running continuously for weeks or months, with models of rivers, coastal marshes, rip currents, shorelines, and nearshore-seabed patterns. His group uses the graphics and animation capabilities of this computer lab to produce images and movies of the model behaviors. One of the O2s features video I/O capabilities and video-analysis software, and they have analyzed laboratory and field video data using recently developed techniques (time averaging and rectification) to extract information from the observations. Misc: Video camera and tripods, high quality Hi-8 and VHS player/recorders and TV set display; diving equipment used for observing nearshore-seabed features.

Petrology Laboratory. The laboratory space of Dr. Boudreau is used largely for general rock sample preparation by members of the petrology/geochemistry group, and includes the following equipment: separatory funnels for mineral separations using the heavy liquids; small sample crushing and sieving equipment; precision diamond wafering blade rock cutting equipment; thin section polishing laps for polished sections for petrographic and electron microprobe study; small Deltech experimental 1 atmosphere high temperature furnace, used for making electron microprobe standards and for high temperature experiments; rock tumbling equipment for aggrading mineral separates; acid dissolutions that are not standard as are used for ICP-MS analysis. An example includes perchloric acid dissolutions, for which the OSHA-required wash down hood in the lab is the only one in the division.

Electron Microprobe Laboratory. The electron microprobe lab, directed by Dr. Alan Boudreau, is used by the petrology and geochemistry groups at Duke and UNC. As such, it is an indispensable basic tool in mineral analyses. The machine consists of a Cameca CAMEBAX (French manufacture) electron microprobe with 4 wavelength-dispersive spectrometers, an energy dispersive spectrometer and digital electron microbeam imaging system. It is automated with control through an Apple Macintosh operating system. The lab is part of a Duke-UNC shared laboratory facilities agreement.

Geochem Laboratory. Dr. Paul Baker's lab has all facilities necessary for major and minor wet chemical analyses. This includes an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, an ion chromatograph, a UV-Vis spectrophotometer, and a Phillips X-Ray diffractometer. Field equipment includes the following: the R/V Neecho, outfitted at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and transported by ship to Arica, Chile, then driven over the Andes and launched in Lake Titicaca. The Neecho is a capable 39 foot, twin-diesel boat with a hydro winch and coring winch, two generators, and an air compressor for seismic reflection work. Dr. Baker has an oceanographic-scale piston core (and has taken a 17 m long Kullenberg piston core off the boat), a large and a small box corer and a Seabird Seacat CTD. For smaller lakes there is a zodiac and other small boats and small motors. Dr. Baker has Russian peat corers and a Livingstone piston corer, a gamma/SP/resistivity well logger and 500 m winch.

Micropaleontology Laboratory. Dr. Bruce Corliss has a micropaleontology laboratory which is set up to process marine sediments for the analysis of microfossils. A Carlo-Erba C-N-S Analyzer is included in the equipment, and the lab has a copy of the Catalogue of Foraminifera for taxonomic work. Corliss also maintains an 8x10' environmental room, which is temperature controlled and used for culturing of deep-sea organisms.

High Temperature Chemistry/Petrology Laboratories. Instruments and laboratory facilities overseen by Dr. Emily Klein within the high-temperature chemistry/petrology group include the following instruments and laboratory equipment for sample preparation. 1) ARL-Fisons Spectraspan 7 direct current plasma (DCP) spectrometer was purchased in 1993 through a grant to NSF Ocean Sciences submitted by Emily Klein, with matching funds provided by Duke. It is equipped with a 24 channel multi-element cassette for major- and high-abundance trace-element analysis for elements and high abundance trace elements (to ppm levels). 2) VG PlasmaQuad-3 inductively-coupled-plasma mass-spectrometer (ICP-MS) is equipped with the S-option pump for increased sensitivity and a UV laser-ablation microprobe for spot analyses to 6 microns (for ultra-trace-element spot analyses in the ppb levels). Detection with peak:blank ratios of better than 3:1 has been demonstrated down to 1 ppt or better for heavier elements (mass greater than 80) and 5 ppt for most lighter elements. This instrument is commonly used for the bulk analysis of low abundance trace elements including the rare earth elements, high field strength elements and a wide range of other elements.

Forestry Sciences Laboratory. The Forestry Sciences Laboratory of the USDA Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station is located in the Research Triangle Park near Durham. This research organization provides excellent opportunities to complement research conducted by students in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Specialized research projects in forest economics, carbon cycling, and productivity are currently under way at the laboratory. The staff of the laboratory is available for consultation and participation in seminars. Arrangements may be made for students to conduct certain aspects of their research at the laboratory.

Marine Laboratory. The Duke University Marine Laboratory (DUML) of the Nicholas school of the Environment and Earth Sciences is an educational and research facility. DUML is located on Pivers Island within the Outer Banks, adjacent to the historic seacoast town of Beaufort, North Carolina, with direct access to the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Lookout National Seashore Park, estuaries, sand beaches, wetlands, and coastal forests. The area provides an excellent opportunity for teaching and research at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. There are approximately 30 masters and 20 resident doctoral students. (For additional information concerning the MA, MS, and PhD graduate programs refer to the section ''Courses and Academic Programs'' in this bulletin and for the MEM graduate program refer to the current Bulletin of Duke University: Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.) The Marine Laboratory accommodates nearly 3,700 visitors per year. The physical plant consists of 23 buildings including five research buildings, six dormitories, a dining hall, classroom laboratories and a maintenance complex. Research from the molecular to the population level is supported at the Marine Laboratory. DUML operates the R/V Susan Hudson, a 57-foot fully equipped coastal oceans research vessel with the capacity to perform small-scale biological, chemical, geological, and physical oceanography. DUML is also the home port for the R/V Cape Hatteras, a 135-foot oceanographic research vessel operated for the NSF by the Duke/University of North Carolina Oceanographic Consortium.

For information concerning teaching and research space, write to the Auxiliaries and Administrative Services Office, Duke University Marine Laboratory, 135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, North Carolina 28516-9721; telephone 252/504-7652 or e-mail: dominick.brugnolotti@duke.edu.

Lemur Center. The Duke Lemur Center is located in Duke Forest about two miles from the main campus. It is the world's only facility devoted entirely to the care, conservation, and study of lemurs. The colony is composed of approximately 250 animals from more than twenty named taxa. The lemurs, and their closest relatives, the lorises, are housed in spacious indoor and outdoor facilities. In the summer months in particular, numerous lemurs "free range" in large tracts of open area within Duke Forest, providing a unique opportunity for investigators and students to study lemur behavior in a semi-natural setting. The Center also houses frozen, preserved, and fossil primate collections for study. All collections are utilized by students and faculty from a wide variety of Duke departments, as well as by scholars from other national and international institutions. Graduate students wishing to conduct research at the Center should indentify this interest to the director of graduate studies for the department to which they are applying. For information pertaining to the use of the Lemur Center, graduate studies, or availability of research space, write to Dr. Sarah Zehr, sz19@duke.edu, Research Manager, Duke Lemur Center, 3705 Erwin Road, Durham, North Carolina 27705.

Chemistry Laboratories. In 2007, the Department of Chemistry moved to the French Family Science Center, a state of the art research facility donated by Bill and Melinda Gates. This building houses not only the entire Chemistry Department, but also Biological Sciences, and a portion of the Physics Department and research labs. The building contains 275,000 square feet of total area, with additional research space in the Levine Science Research Center to accommodate chemistry at the biology interface. This well-equipped chemical laboratory provides conditions conducive to research in many areas of current interest. Major shared instruments, including those for nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry, are housed in the departmental instrumentation facility, along with optical and other instrumentation, including FTIR, UVVIS, and fluorescence spectrometers. A wide array of more specialized instrumentation is available in the various research laboratories, from ultrafast laser systems to atomic force microscopes to automated solid-phase synthesizers. Other major facilities on campus include the Free Electron Laser Laboratory and the University NMR Center, which maintains several ultra high field NMR instruments. A broad range of instrumentation for biological and materials science applications is accessible in the Medical Center and School of Engineering, with additional facilities available at the neighboring universities and in Research Triangle Park, including those for x-ray diffraction and structure determination.

Computing facilities in Chemistry include SGI and Redhat Linux workstations, Beowulf clusters, and clusters of PC's associated with the teaching laboratories. The department is linked to the university's high speed fiber optic network and to the university's high performance shared computing cluster. This building is primarily a research facility, and the majority of space is dedicated to research and teaching labs. In addition, the department has state-of-the-art computer/video projection systems in its lecture hall and conference rooms and wireless networking for incorporation of the latest computational research tools into the undergraduate chemistry curriculum.

.Physics Laboratories. The Physics Building houses research and instruction in the Departments of Physics and Mathematics. Additional space is provided by the adjacent Nuclear Building (TUNL) and Free Electron Laser (FEL) Laboratory Buildings. Graduate students studying in these two programs usually have offices in these buildings.

About half of the Physics space is devoted to research laboratories for the department's programs. Special equipment includes: ultrafast, high power, short wavelength, and far-infrared lasers; a 45-MeV electron linear accelerator driving an infrared free electron laser (FEL) and a 1 GeV linear accelerator and high current electron storage ring driving an ultraviolet to soft X-ray FEL (this facility is used, among other things, to produce a high-intensity gamma-ray source known as the HIGS project); a high-resolution 4 MeV Van de Graaff accelerator; a 20 MeV tandem Van de Graaff accelerator with polarized source and cryogenically-cooled polarized targets; cryostats, superconducting magnets, and associated equipment for research in the low temperature temperature range; a scanning electron microscope with electron beam lithographic capability; several computers for data collection and processing in all of the research groups; a massively parallel computer system for particle, nuclear, and condensed matter theory; desktop computers are typically provided for all grad students.

Engineering Research Laboratories. The laboratories of the four departments of the Pratt School of Engineering contain extensive state-of-the-art equipment that may be used in several specialized fields. With the Fall 2004 opening of the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Science (FCIEMAS), an extensive new infrastructure exists for interdisciplinary laboratory and teaching activities. Departmental facilities already present in Hudson Hall are now complemented by extensive new infrastructure facilitating interaction involving all Pratt departments and research centers and also working in close proximity to units from medicine and the sciences. Facilities available for instruction and research are suggested by the following representative listing of equipment found in each department:

Biomedical Engineering. Biomechanics laboratories: hydraulic testing system, IBM PS/2 microcomputer, micro VAX II computer, optical displacement measuring system, silicon graphics/GE graphcon system, Sun micro systems SPARC station, Zonic modal analyzer. Biomedical materials and surface interactions laboratories: air- and water-cooled Argon lasers, air convection oven, capillary rheometer, FTIR infrared spectrometer, gamma counter, gel permeation chromatograph, Langmuir-Blodgett trough, liquid nitrogen cooled CCD camera, Nikon inverted microscope with phase contrast and epifluorescency, Ultimage image analysis system and Macintosh II, vacuum oven, Zeiss axioplun microscope, electrophysiology and neurophysiology instrumentation. Ultrasound imaging and transducer laboratories; CAD/CAM stations for circuit development, diamond tip dicing saw, high-speed video system, image processing system, laminar flow hood, multiple PCs and work station, PC board maker, ultrasound mechanical scanner, VAX 11/780.

Civil and Environmental Engineering. Faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering routinely design, construct, and adapt laboratory equipment for specialized teaching and research tasks in engineering mechanics, environmental engineering, geomechanics, structural engineering, and water resources engineering. In addition, arrays of standard laboratory facilities are available to support each research area.

Research and teaching facilities in engineering mechanics, structural engineering, and geomechanics include four independent closed-loop electrohydraulic dynamic loading systems (MTS), with a frequency range up to 100 Hz, and ranges of load to capacity 6,000, 35,000, 50,000 and 220,000 lbs. The 6,000 lbs. actuator can develop a constant crosshead speed up to 50,000 in./min. For teaching and research, the department has a 10,000 lb. universal testing machine and a 10,000 lb. torsion machine both fully instrumented with computer data storage, as well as a Kistler force plate with 10 decades of sensitivity. Equipment is available for fabricating specimens and testing fiber-reinforced polymer composites. An environmental chamber tests in the temperature range of -100º to +350º F; equipment for spectral and modal dynamic analysis, and an ultra-high pressure triaxial shear apparatus is available for confining pressures up to 100,000 psi. Rock-testing facilities, model-testing equipment for anchored walls and penetrometer studies, a large-aperture research polariscope, a reflective photoelastic polariscope, and a sustained-loading facility for long duration in studies of prestressed concrete are routinely used in teaching and research procedures.

Research and teaching facilities in environmental engineering include wet and dry laboratories equipped to study a range of physical, chemical, and biological processes. A fully integrated resource recovery pilot plant, calorimetry for the measurement of heat values of secondary fuels, air classifiers interfaced with computer monitors, as well as indoor and outdoor water resources monitoring devices including flumes, Venturi meters, and digital computation hardware are available. The biotechnology and physical-chemical laboratories are equipped with autoclaves, a media preparation room, walk-in environmental rooms, numerous fume hoods, a biohazard containment facility for cultivation of genetically engineered microorganisms, fully instrumented bioreactors with on-line control, and various analytical instrumentation including liquid scintillation counting, autoradiography, atomic adsorption spectroscopy, total carbon analysis to ppb levels, gas chromatographs equipped with ECO, FID, and TCD detectors, HPLCs, computer-assisted image analysis microscopes, and a recently acquired fourier transfer infrared spectrometer facility.

Computer resources available to Civil and Environmental Engineering students include a multitude of personal computers distributed through departmental research facilities. Additionally, the department houses and maintains its own computing facility, providing UNIX workstations and IBM-compatible PC's. This particular facility is dedicated to graduate student research and special undergraduate projects. Most of the computer resources are networked with the Pratt School of Engineering's ethernet backbone and are easily accessible from several locations in the department and across the campus. Depending on the specific application, students can successfully investigate problems in computational fluid and solid mechanics, rigid-body dynamics, particle and mathematical optimization as well as transportation and environmental systems engineering research topics. Several BEOWOLF computing clusters are housed in the department. Many problems addressed by the faculty and students of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are computationally complex and could not be approached without the substantial computing facilities available at Duke.

Electrical and Computer Engineering. General computing laboratory equipped with several IBM RS-6000s servers and a fast interconnect network in a UNIX environment for interactive design, graphics, computation, and computer-aided engineering; Sun SPARC workstations for VLSI design; ethernet network for connection to regional, national, and international data networks; Signal Processing Laboratory with Sun workstations; microwave facilities for experimentation up to 35 GHz; robotics with a GE P-50 robot; microprocessor laboratory; Digital Systems Laboratory; solid-state power conditioning laboratories with dedicated computers for controlling instruments, including digital processing oscilloscopes and network and impedance analyzers, and for computer-aided design; clean room and semiconductor nMOS fabrication laboratory for integrated circuits; a molecular beam epitaxy laboratory for III-V compound semiconductor crystal growth using a Riber Model 3R&D MBE system; access to the design, fabrication, and research facilities of the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina; and an ion implanter and MOCVD epitaxial growth system in a III-V compound semiconductor lab at the Research Triangle Institute.

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. The department has a number of well-equipped laboratories for studies in aerodynamics, acoustics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, microscale and convective heat transfer, computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer, control theory, cell and membrane biomechanics, biorheology, polymer engineering, corrosion, electronic materials, physical metallurgy, positron annihilation spectroscopy, and expert systems. Equipment in these laboratories includes a wind tunnel, several scanning electron microscopes and scanning tunneling microscopes, doppler broadening and lifetime positron systems, a liquid helium cryostat, DSC/DMA facilities and diffusion furnace, inverted microscopes, low-light-level video cameras and a photon counter, cell-culture systems, an anechoic chamber, dynamic signal analyzers and laser velocimeters for dynamic analysis, an X-ray generator and diffractometer, FTIR spectrometer, high-power lasers with lock-in amplifier, and fluorescence microscopes.

The Duke Hypo-Hyperbaric Center is a major center for research, treatment and training involving hyperbaric and hypobaric exposure and simulation. The facility includes the F. G. Hall Laboratory, a large multi-chamber complex, and supporting clinical and laboratory serv ices. Hyperbaric oxygen is used in the treatment of many disorders, including decompression illness, gas gangrene, carbon monoxide poisoning and wound healing. The hyperbaric facility is fully equipped with state-of-the-art hemodynamic and blood gas monitoring equipment, allowing uninterrupted delivery of critical care for patients requiring intermittent hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

As the headquarters of the National Diver's Alert Network (DAN), the lab is a major resource for the referral and treatment of serious diving accidents and air embolism cases and for the largest recreational diving illness data base in the world. The laboratory provides opportunities for research and for training for physicians, postdoctorates, and graduate students in pressure-related medicine and physiology. The program is multidisciplinary with major participation by the Departments of Anesthesiology, Medicine, Surgery, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and the Pratt School of Engineering.

The Medical Center. Currently the Medical Center at Duke University occupies approximately 140 acres on the West Campus. The southern quadrant is contiguous with the main quadrangle of the university and consists of the following: Davison Building, Duke Hospital South, Baker House, Barnes Woodhall Building, Diagnostic and Treatment Building, Ewald W. Busse Building, Eugene A. Stead Building, Clinical Research II, and the Edwin A. Morris Clinical Cancer Research Building.

The northern portion includes the Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Research Building for Neurobiology, Nanaline H. Duke Medical Sciences Building, Alex H. Sands Medical Sciences Building, Edwin L. Jones Basic Cancer Research Building, Clinical and Research Laboratory Building, Bell Building, Seeley G. Mudd Communications Center and Library, Joseph A. C. Wadsworth Building (Eye Center), Duke Hospital North Division and Anlyan Tower, and Lenox Baker Hospital.

In the eastern section of the campus are Pickens Rehabilitation Center, Civitan Mental Retardation and Child Development Center, and Trent Drive Hall.In the western section of the campus are: Surgical Oncology Research Building; Environmental Safety Building; Research Park Buildings I, II, III, and IV; the Vivarium; and the Cancer Center Isolation Facility.

2008-09 Bulletin of the Duke University Graduate School

2008-09 Bulletin of the
Duke University Graduate School