• 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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