Folks up at Yale University liked the online calendar Duke had created so much, they ripped it off.

With Duke's blessing, of course.

Duke rolled its calendar out
last fall. When Yale inquired, the techies at Duke gladly shared the
design code.

You can see the results.

"We really liked the way Duke did it in terms of both the look and the functionality," Eric Wittmann, the technical of Yale's project, said in a news release. "We were under a fairly substantial time and money crunch. It was above and beyond that Duke shared its code with us."

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Writing for a New York Times blog, a high school senior from California explains why he chose Yale over UNC Chapel Hill, even though Carolina offered up the prestigious Morehead-Cain scholarship.

The answer, in a word: Diversity.

Nicholas Geiser, from San Francisco, writes in part: "The Morehead has an edge in material benefits, but it was outweighted by what I perceived to be the lack of diversity at UNC, and my desire for a different kind of challenge over the next four years."

Read Geiser's entire post here.

Nobel prize winner and N.C. State University graduate Rajendra Pachauri has been appointed to lead the new Climate and Energy Institute at Yale University, the Associated Press reports.

Pachauri won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

His retains his post at the IPCC, and will lead the Yale institute part time, the AP reports. At Yale, his work will focus on forecasting climate variability and its impacts on water supplies, as well as studying the spread of infectious diseases, searching for alternative fuels and the science and economics of carbon sequestration.

Pachauri spent much of the 1970s as a graduate student and teacher at NCSU, earning a master's degree and a joint Ph.D. in industrial engineering and economics.

After teaching briefly at NCSU, Pachauri returned to his native India and soon assumed his current duties as head of The Energy and Resources Institute, a nonprofit scientific and policy research organization that focuses on global warming and energy issues.

Pachauri took center stage in the debate about climate change in 2002 when he was elected chairman of the IPCC, a group set up by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization. Through scientific investigation, the panel of several thousand researchers and scientists has forged a widening consensus about the link between human activities and global warming.

Researchers at Yale and UNC Chapel Hill have received funding worth nearly $10 million to study the ways cocaine use during pregnancy can negatively affect the relationship between mother and infant.

Researchers hope the project will lead to the development of new intervention strategies and help people working in the fields of drug abuse and developmental disorders.

Josephine Johns, associate professor of psychiatry and psychology at UNC, is the principal investigator and director of the project. Linda Mayes, a professor of child psychiatry, pediatrics and psychiatry at Yale, is the principal investigator for the portion of the study conducted there.

 The study is funded mainly by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, with extra funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institutes of Health's Directors Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences.