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For immediate release                               Contact: Dennis Meredith
Dec. 1, 1994                                        (919) 681-8054
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Note to editors: News media are invited to cover the Dec. 9-10
dedication of the Leon Levine Science Research Center, including
the dedication ceremony at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 10.
Please contact Dennis Meredith to arrange to cover the event.


DUKE'S LEVINE CENTER DEDICATION TO FEATURE PUBLIC TALKS


      DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University's $80 million Leon Levine
Science Research Center, an interdisciplinary research and
teaching building with as much area as seven football fields,
will be dedicated Saturday, Dec. 10.
      The dedication festivities will begin Friday, Dec. 9, and
include public panel discussions by Duke faculty and other
nationally known scholars discussing key issues in environmental
research, computation, biotechnology and science education. The
program also will include a talk on the building's architecture
and a behind-the-scenes tour of the new building.
      A formal dedication ceremony, which is by invitation, will
take place on Saturday afternoon. Keynote speaker for the
dedication ceremony is Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, formerly chairman,
president and chief executive officer of Merck & Co. Inc.
      The Leon Levine Science Research Center is named after the
chairman and CEO of Family Dollar Stores Inc. of Charlotte, N.C.
      With an area of 341,000 gross square feet, the Levine Center
houses the School of the Environment, research centers of the
School of Engineering, medical center departments of pharmacology
and of molecular cancer biology, department of computer science,
and the developmental, cell and molecular biology group of the
departments of botany and zoology.
      The Levine Center also includes research and teaching
laboratories, classrooms, conference rooms, shared research
facilities and an auditorium and dining commons.
      The dedication program events will all take place in the
Levine Center's Gay McLawhorn Love and J. Erskine Love, Jr.
Family Auditorium.
      On Friday, Dec. 9, from 9-11 a.m., a panel discussion will
be held on "Technology for Environmental and Computational
Science."  The discussion will include welcoming remarks by
Norman L. Christensen Jr., professor and dean of the Duke School
of the Environment.  The discussion will be moderated by John T.
Sigmon, associate dean of the School of the Environment.
      Panel participants will include:
      * Kenneth Galluppi, director of scientific applications and
environmental programs, North Carolina Supercomputing Center,
MCNC;
      * Barry Gold, professional staff member, House Committee on
Science, Space and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives;
      * Adrianne Massey, director of the North Carolina
Environmental Technology Initiative, State of North Carolina.
      Also on Dec. 9 from 2-4 p.m. will be a panel discussion on
"New Frontiers in Biotechnology." Moderator will be Gordon G.
Hammes, vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of
biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center.
      Panel participants will include:
      * Charles E. Hamner, president, North Carolina Biotechnology
Center;
      * David R. McClay, Duke professor in the departments of
zoology, neurobiology and immunology;
      * David Katz, professor of biomedical engineering and
obstetrics and gynecology; and director, Duke School of
Engineering Center for Cellular and Biosurface Engineering;
      * Lester B. Salans, vice president, Sandoz Research
Institute, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp.;
      * Howard K. Schachman, professor, University of California,
Berkeley, and ombudsman and special advisor to the director of
the National Institutes of Health.
      Beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Friday will be an address by
Donald E. Knuth, professor of the art of computer programming,
emeritus, Stanford University, and recipient of the Association
for Computing Machinery's Turing Award and member of the National
Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. Knuth
will speak on "The Stanford GraphBase."
      On Saturday morning at 8:30 will be a presentation on "The
Levine Center: Its Architecture and Programs." Presenters will be
George E. Marsh Jr., Payette Associates, Boston; and Melvyn
Lieberman, professor of physiology and biomedical engineering,
and director of the Duke University Associates Program.
      The presentation will be followed at 9:15 a.m. by a behind-
the-scenes tour of the Levine Center -- a look at the
sophisticated machinery that keeps a state-of-the-art research
building running. The tour is limited to 50 people.
      The final public panel discussion on Saturday will run from
10 a.m. to noon, and is titled "Educating for Science: Meeting
the Challenges."
      Panel participants will include:
      * John A. Board, Jr., associate professor, Duke departments
of electrical engineering and computer science;
      * John Harer, professor and chair, Duke department of
mathematics;
      * William M. Kier, associate professor, department of
biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
      * Michael LaBarbara, professor, department of organismal
biology and anatomy, University of Chicago;
      * Jeanne L. Narum, director, Project Kaleidoscope, The
Independent Colleges Office, Washington, D.C.
      * James N. Siedow, professor, Duke department of botany;
      * Richard A. White, University Distinguished Service
Professor of Botany, dean of Trinity College, and vice provost
for undergraduate education.
      Besides a keynote address by Vagelos, the dedication program
will include remarks by Duke University President Nannerl O.
Keohane and Chairman of the Board of Trustees John Koskinen. The
dedication ceremonies will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
      Vagelos, who is an M.D., served as CEO of Merck for nine
years, from 1985 to 1994.  He was first elected to the company's
board of directors in 1984 and served as chairman from 1986 to
1994. 
      He currently serves as chairman of the board of the
University of Pennsylvania.  The author of more than 100
scientific papers, he is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences and has received honorary degrees from such institutions
as Washington University, Columbia University and Princeton
University.
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