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By Jane Stancill, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Oct. 26--DURHAM -- Just as one Triangle campus gained a full-time Nobel Prize winner, another campus has lost one. Nobel Laureate Peter Agre of Duke University has been named director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Baltimore.

By Tim Simmons, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Oct. 9--To understand the importance of Oliver Smithies' work, think of taking a cross-country trip without directions or a map. That's how basic his contributions are to medical research.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. _ Sunday was an ordinary day for Oliver Smithies, 82. He flew his glider over Chapel Hill, took his wife to lunch and crafted a response to a committee that had denied his latest grant proposal. On Monday, the scientist was awakened at 5 a.m. by a call from Stockholm, Sweden.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for their work in discovering a process that lets cells destroy unwanted proteins.