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• The Duke University women's basketball team finished the season in a tie for the regular-season title and winner of the ACC tournament title. Junior Jasmine Thomas was named the tournament MVP and Coach Joanna P. McCallie, named ACC coach of the year, was the first coach in NCAA history to win coach of the year honors in four different conferences.
• DPAC will host the 2010 national tour debut of "Billy Elliot," the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical opening SunTrust Broadway Series third season.
• Bria Davenport, a junior at Hillside New Tech High School, has been honored for her exemplary service with a President's Volunteer Service Award for service to her community and country.
• Eric Zuber tied for third place in the Eighth National Chopin Piano Competition at the Hannover Hochschule Fur Musik in Germany.
• The Duke University medical center secured a $12 million lead gift toward the creation of a new state-of-the-art Duke Eye Center.
• Matthew Sears, a teacher at Hillside New Tech High School, is one of five North Carolina teachers to win the prestigious Career Awards for Science and Mathematics Teachers from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
• Duke players Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith claimed three of the top seven spots in voting for the All-ACC men's basketball teams.
• Senior point guard Jon Scheyer is in the running as one of six finalists for the Bob Cousy Award by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
• The Comfort Inn on NC 55 in Durham was one of the 301 hotels in the country to earn the Gold Award from Choice Hotels International, Inc.

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• Durham Mayor William V. Bell was elected as chair of the North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition, a group committed to advancing North Carolina's urban centers.
• The city of Durham secured a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Communities Showcase grant program to expand its Neighborhood Energy Retrofit Program.
• Al Gore will give the 2010 spring Duke Environment and Society Lecture at Duke University on April 6.
• Seth Wescott, born in Durham, won the gold medal in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics in the snowboard cross event; his second Olympic gold in the event.

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• Counter Culture Coffee's Lem Butler used his advances barista skills to capture the top honors at the 2010 Southeast Barista Championship.
• Duke University junior Jasmine Thomas is one of eight nominees for the national 2010 Nancy Lieberman Award.
• Duke University researcher Mark Onaitis brought home a grant from the NC chapter of the National Lung Cancer Partnership from its 2010 Young Investigator Research Grant competition.
• Former Duke star Christian Laettner earned a spot on the 2010 class for the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
• Duke University Muslim Chaplain Imam Abdullah Antepli will have the honor of giving the opening prayer to the U.S. House of Representatives on March 3 in Washington, D.C.
• The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Duke Basketball player Jon Scheyer as one of 30 midseason candidates for the 2010 Naismith Trophy, awarded annually to the collegiate national player of the year.

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