The Virtual Reality (VR) Treatment Program at the Duke Faculty Practice offers a new human-computer interaction form of therapy for individuals with anxiety disorders due to fear of heights, elevators, thunderstorms, public speaking and flying.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition Jelly Roll Blues was the first published jazz composition, in 1915.
New Orleans native Ferdinand Joseph Le Menthe, enshrined in jazz folklore as Jelly Roll Morton, was born in 1885 to a middle class Creole family on Frenchmen Street at the corner of Robertson. The house remains intact and stands today.