• A new iPhone app features Duke's Mike Krzyzewski giving tips to players as they compete in races through Durham and other places while dodging Cameron Crazies and other impediments.
• Ryan Allis and Aaron Houghton, Co-Founders of Durham-based iContact, are featured in the April issue of Entrepreneur Magazine for the way they are helping others while growing their business.
• The N.C. Central University Institute for Homeland Security and Workforce Development has been awarded a grant of $238,992 to design and test an emergency planning management model that can be used by faith-based and community organizations.
• Baseball America selected Durham Bull's outfielder Desmond Jennings for the cover of the 2010 Minor League Preview scheduled for release next week.
• Durham native Chris Hendricks will kick off a 2 month mega-tour as the opening act on the "Life and Faith Tour" which includes Amy Grant, MercyMe, Diamond Rio, Israel Houghton, and others.
• The Kiwanis Club of Durham is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year.

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• Durham, NC was named the 4th most affordable city in America on NBC's TODAY Show.
• Anna Frost, director of secondary English and language arts and literacy for Durham Public Schools, was honored by a national book publisher with the National Scholastic Heroes Award from Scholastic Inc. for her work.
• Duke Medicine received a $10.2 million gift from the Robertson Foundation that will help create a state-of-the-art Translational Cell Therapy Center.
• The Durham Herald-Sun was honored by its peers during the North Carolina Press Association awards for 2009 as the first-place recipient for General Excellence, as well as receiving eight other staff and individual awards.
• The Duke men's basketball team has advanced to the sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament and the women's team is hosting LSU tonight in Cameron Indoor Stadium in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

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• Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will discuss manufacturing jobs and clean energy at Cree, Inc. in Durham on Thursday.
• Duke is tied with UNC for the favorite men's college basketball team in the country according to Harris Interactive.
• The Museum of Life and Science in Durham was the 10th most visited museum or historic attraction in North Carolina according to Carolina Publishing Associates of Matthews.
• Willie Bradshaw, Durham athlete and former Athletic Director of Durham Schools, has been honored as an inductee into the National High School Hall of Fame.
• The Southern Regional Education Board named N.C. Central University one of 15 institutions nationwide that outperform similar schools in graduation rates and student achievement.
• Duke senior volleyball player Rachael Moss was one of 174 collegiate athletes nationally honored with an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
• The Duke men's basketball team is the 2010 ACC tournament champs and has secured the overall number 1 seed in the South region in the NCAA tournament.
• The Duke women's basketball team secured the number 2 seed in the Memphis region and will play at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday, March 20.
• Durham native Matthew Lundy, shop foreman at the West Palm Beach, Florida super car shop, Performance Power Racing, helped shatter the world record for the standing mile at 253 miles an hour, more than 6 mph faster than the previous record.

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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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