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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 29
JULY 30, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
X-Ray Program
With E/on College
Begins This Fall
The Duke School of Radiologic
Technology and Elon College near
Burlington have announced an unusual
program beginning this fall to offer
students a bachelor's degree in radiologic
technology.
The program, in the planning stage for
several years, will permit students who
have completed two years of liberal arts
courses at Elon to take the 24-month
X-ray course at Duke and then receive the
B. S. degree from Elon.
What makes the plan unusual, though,
is that qualified graduates of the Duke
X-ray school may apply to Elon, take two
years of liberal arts and science courses,
and then receive Elon's bachelor's degree.
"The plan to let qualified
technologists go back to Elon for their
degree will provide more flexibility in
education for these people," Dr. Roger J.
Bulger, associate director of medical
education for allied health, said in
announcing plans for the program.
Graduates of the Duke-Elon program
will not only be registered technologists
but may take teaching or administrative
posts with schools of radiologic
technology.
One of the reasons behind establishing
the program, according to the Duke
school's director, John B. Cahoon, is to
help resolve the acute shortage of
college-trained radiologic technologists in
these schools.
The affiliated program between Duke
and Elon will be only the second in the
South to offer the B. S. in radiologic
technology. The University of Alabama
began the program several years ago.
Duke's present two-year certificate
program will continue to be open to high
school or junior college graduates who do
not wish to pursue a college degree.
LAST IN THE GROUP—Jhe two-story Research Park IV building is now home tor
several laboratories in the departments of pediatrics and microbiology-immunology.
(photo by Jim Wallace)
Research Park IV in Use
After a great deal of unpacking,
sorting, and re-assembling complicated
equipment, several dozen Duke
researchers are busily at work in their
new laboratories in the Medical Center's
fourth Research Park Building.
The two-story building, completed last
winter and occupied this spring, provides
some 20,000 sq. ft. of efficient research
space for the departments of pediatrics
and microbiology-immunology.
The structure, the last one planned for
the Research Park .area, is one of four
non-permanent facilities built at Duke
over the past three years because of the
pressing need for research space.
Because the buildings were designed
specifically for research, they can easily
accommodate the large amount of
roof-mounted research equipment which
could put a strain on a conventional
building. The architects, John D. Latimer,
and Associates, Inc., of Durham, also
planned the buildings to permit the
greatest amount of flexibility in designing
research laboratories for the future.
The exterior of Research Park IV is
made of prefabricated, off-white steel
panels with black accents. Joe Kennedy,
assistant director of the Medical Center
Planning Office, explained that the use of
prefabricated components and the
similarity of design of all four buildings
kept the cost relatively low.
The other three Research Park
Buildings are one-story structures
completed in June, 1970.
In the field of pediatrics, researchers in
the building are studying neurovirology,
immunology, and infectious diseases. The
microbiology-immunology section labs
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