NCCU students in honor society

DURHAM -- N.C. Central University students Michelle Joyner, Forkoh McSwain and Danita Williams have been inducted into Omicron, Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society.

The society recongizes and encourages superior scholarship, leadership and exemplary character. To gain induction, students must be juniors or seniors with grade point averages of 3.0 or higher.

The three students are all Durham residents. They were among 79 NCCU students selected for induction.

African Children's Choir to perform

DURHAM -- The African Children's Choir, a select group of children from three countries in East Africa who have lost parents or relatives to AIDS, returns to Duke Jan. 18 in Page Auditorium.

Durham Public Schools students will receive priority seating at the free 2 p.m. program, which is being held in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday.

The choir, composed of children from Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, sings traditional African songs, American spirituals and contemporary Christian music. The group performed at Duke last year to a sold-out audience.

Performing in the highly selective choir is designed to help the children break the cycle of poverty through education, athletics and music. The choir travels the world performing for dignitaries and has appeared on "American Idol."

Economist's papers added to collection

DURHAM -- The papers of pre-eminent American economist Paul Samuelson, who died earlier this month, will be added to the Economists Papers Project in the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library at Duke University.

Samuelson was the first American recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics. Before his death, Samuelson had made the decision to donate his papers to Duke where they will join the collections of his MIT Nobel Prize-winning colleagues Robert Solow and Franco Modigliani, as well as those of Nobelists Kenneth Arrow, Lawrence Klein (Samuelson's first Ph.D student), Douglass North, Vernon Smith and Leonid Hurwicz.

The Economists Papers Project, developed jointly by Duke's History of Economics group and the Special Collections Library, is the most significant archival collection of economists' papers in the world.

-- Compiled by Neil Offen