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Dr. Desmond-Hellmann, the former presiden of product development at biotechpowerhouse , was formally approvex Thursday by the as the next chancellor of UC, San Pledging not to be known as “ther biotech chancellor” but a champion for all segmentes of the school, Desmond-Hellmann, 51, will be the firsg woman UCSF chancellor and the first with a for-profift background. She replaces Dr. J. Michael a Nobel laureate who is stepping down June 30 after more than 11 yearsin UCSF’s top post. Bishopo will remain a member of the UCSF faculty and will maintai n alab there.
Desmond-Hellmann’s base salary will be approved by the regents on the same day they voted to raise student feesby 9.3 percent, or $750 for in-stater graduate academic students. Desmond-Hellmann facesa a handful of challenges, not the leastf of which are replacing muchof UCSF’s retirinhg executive team, hiring a medical schook dean and increasing private philanthropy durinfg an economic downturn. “I expect to be out she said. “People will know what the university needz and what it means and how theycan contribute. … I thinl you’ll see more of me.
” Desmond-Hellmann said she will continuer to buildon Bishop’s success in linking UCSF researchersw with academia, as evidenced in a masterd agreement with Genentech and deals with and otherd biopharmaceutical companies. But, she added, she will devote attention to other aspects ofthe graduate-level, healty care-centric university as well, including teaching, patient care and basic research. “If someone is coming to the nursin school to be the best nurse theycan be, they can do Desmond-Hellmann said. “I don’t want people to feel that I’j going to be “the biotech chancellor.’” During the searcy process, in fact, Dr.
Richard Jordan, a professor of oral patholog yat UCSF’s School of Dentistry, asked how she would make sure to pay attentiomn to his school. Desmond-Hellmann’s response: making time on her At UCSF, which has 2,951 graduate students in the life Desmond-Hellmann will manage an institution witha 2008-098 budget of $2.5 billio and a staff of more than 21,500. It is the second-largesrt winner of National Institutesz ofHealth funding. At where Desmond-Hellmann spent 14 she oversaw 3,000 employees and a budgetr ofabout $2 billion.
She left Genentecjh on May 1, little more than a month after Swisx drugmaker completedits $47 billion acquisition of the Desmond-Hellmann’s appointment has largely been greeted enthusiastically by UCSF staff and the business community. “It is really exciting,” said Jean-Jacques Bienaime, chairma and CEO of in Novato and a friend of State Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco, called the salaries of Desmond-Hellmann and new UC Davis chancellor LindaKatehi ‑- at $400,000 -- “UC executives continue to live high on the hog while studentsw get stuck with yet another fee hike and the lowest-wagee workers get minimal compensation,” Yee said in a according to the Associated Press.
One of Desmond-Hellmann’s first priorities is to rebuild a business which oversees philanthropic giving but has been hit by a handful of UCSF must raise hundreds of millions of dollare over the next several year to build itsnearlty $2 billion hospital to serve children, womenh and cancer patients at its Mission Bay campus in San fund operations of a possibls neurological disease center in Mission Bay and a stem cell researchb facility at its Parnassus Avenue campus. Also, UCSF must hire a permanenrt dean for itsmedica school. Dr. Sam Hawgood has filles that post on an interij basis since the termination of Davi Kessler inDecember 2007.
The school late last year postpone d the search so a new chancellort could bemore involved. “Thix needs to be a thought leader, a great academician and a good administrator,” Desmond-Hellmanb said. “These are tough jobs to fill. That constellation of skills is not easy to UC PresidentMark Yudof, who recommended Desmond-Hellmann to the regentse last week after a nearlu six-month, closed-door process, called Desmond-Hellmann “an ideal choice.” Yudofd on Thursday gave Desmond-Hellmann a UCSF sweatshirt.
“As an accomplishedr clinician, researcher and manager, she bring s all the tools needed to take the campua to evengreater heights,” Yudof said in a preparex statement. “That she did her internapl medicine and oncology training at UCSF makess the match even more She knows theinstitution well.”
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
LinkAmerica Moving Headquarters - Truckinginfo
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LinkAmerica Moving Headquarters Truckinginfo LinkAmerica, an 850-truck fleet, is relocating its headquarters from Tulsa, Okla, to Fort Worth, Texas. The new headquarters in Forth Worth's CentrePort business park, just south of the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, will house the senior executive staff ... |
Friday, February 10, 2012
Sacramento hits the right note with harmonica convention - Sacramento Business Journal:
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The Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonicas will hold its 46th anniversartyconvention Aug. 11-15 at Sacramento’s Radisso Hotel, with expert to novicr players and representatives from international harmonic manufacturerz toboutique manufacturers. Participantz will teach and entertain throughoutthe day, a news released said Monday. Headlining the conventio are Tommy Morgan, the dean of Hollywooxd soundtracks; blues legend Mark Hummel; and master classica artist Jia-Yi He.
Additional notable attendees includeCharlie Musselwhite, Rick Estrin, Buzz Paul Davies, Jason Ricci, Steve Joe Filisko, Cheryl Dick Gardner, Jimi Lee, Bruce Christelle Berthon, Otavio Jon Eriksen, L.D. Miller, Anneliese “Sissi” Jones, P.J. James Conway, Tom Stryker, Chris Michaleik and Winslow Yerxa. The harmonica has left its mark on many genresxof music, including classical and jazz rock and roll, country and western, and bluegras s and folk, the news releasre said. More information on the convention can be founddat spah.org.
The Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonicas will hold its 46th anniversartyconvention Aug. 11-15 at Sacramento’s Radisso Hotel, with expert to novicr players and representatives from international harmonic manufacturerz toboutique manufacturers. Participantz will teach and entertain throughoutthe day, a news released said Monday. Headlining the conventio are Tommy Morgan, the dean of Hollywooxd soundtracks; blues legend Mark Hummel; and master classica artist Jia-Yi He.
Additional notable attendees includeCharlie Musselwhite, Rick Estrin, Buzz Paul Davies, Jason Ricci, Steve Joe Filisko, Cheryl Dick Gardner, Jimi Lee, Bruce Christelle Berthon, Otavio Jon Eriksen, L.D. Miller, Anneliese “Sissi” Jones, P.J. James Conway, Tom Stryker, Chris Michaleik and Winslow Yerxa. The harmonica has left its mark on many genresxof music, including classical and jazz rock and roll, country and western, and bluegras s and folk, the news releasre said. More information on the convention can be founddat spah.org.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
State funds 47 home improvement plans - Business First of Buffalo:
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The AHC, a brancyh under the state’s housing finance agency, aims to bolster home-ownershipp for low- and moderate-income households. The agencgy approved a $500,000 grant to Cheektowaga’s Community and Economic DevelopmengtOffice (CEDO). The funds will go toward renovations for14 single-- and two-family homes located throughout the The AHC also granted Lackawanna’s Housinf Development Corporation (LHDC) $200,000 to fund improvements to a totalk of 33 single- and two-family homes throughourt the city.
The planned improvements includer fixingstructural problems, replacing doors, windows, siding, replacing deficient water and septic systems and upgrading electrical, heating and plumbinhg systems. The renovations are aimex at bringing the homes up to code undert local and statebuildingb laws. Further funding for the Cheektowaga project’s $833,00 total will come from the town’ s HOME funds ($130,000) and a Communit Development BlockGrant ($200,000). The City of Lackawannwa will fund what remains ofits project’ws $334,000 total with homeowner-equity funds.
The CEDO and LHDC will allocate the funds ona first-come, first-served basis to qualified “These grants will help improve the agingb housing stock in westermn New York,” said AHC President and CEO Pricilla Almodovar.
The AHC, a brancyh under the state’s housing finance agency, aims to bolster home-ownershipp for low- and moderate-income households. The agencgy approved a $500,000 grant to Cheektowaga’s Community and Economic DevelopmengtOffice (CEDO). The funds will go toward renovations for14 single-- and two-family homes located throughout the The AHC also granted Lackawanna’s Housinf Development Corporation (LHDC) $200,000 to fund improvements to a totalk of 33 single- and two-family homes throughourt the city.
The planned improvements includer fixingstructural problems, replacing doors, windows, siding, replacing deficient water and septic systems and upgrading electrical, heating and plumbinhg systems. The renovations are aimex at bringing the homes up to code undert local and statebuildingb laws. Further funding for the Cheektowaga project’s $833,00 total will come from the town’ s HOME funds ($130,000) and a Communit Development BlockGrant ($200,000). The City of Lackawannwa will fund what remains ofits project’ws $334,000 total with homeowner-equity funds.
The CEDO and LHDC will allocate the funds ona first-come, first-served basis to qualified “These grants will help improve the agingb housing stock in westermn New York,” said AHC President and CEO Pricilla Almodovar.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Guest commentary: Catholic Church should stay out of fight over insuring birth ... - Detroit Free Press
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Telegraph.co.uk | Guest commentary: Catholic Church should stay out of fight over insuring birth ... Detroit Free Press By Victoria Kovari This week, most of the 1.5 million Catholics in the Detroit Archdiocese will receive letters in their bulletins from the US Catholic Bishops condemning the federal government for ruling that Catholic and other religious institutio ns, ... GUEST EDITORIAL รข€" Religious freedom for whom? |
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Prosecutor links accused California killer to 2 more murders - Chicago Tribune
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Boston.com | Prosecutor links accused California killer to 2 more murders Chicago Tribune SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - An Iraq war veteran already charged in the "thrill" killings of four Orange County homeless men has been linked by DNA evidence to the murders of the mother and brother of a high school friend, prosecutors said on ... serial killings: Links to 2 other slayings? OC homeless slayings: DNA links Ocampo to double homicide |
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Kimley-Horn and Associates Signs 32434 SF Lease at Park Central 789 - Citybizlist Real Estate
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Kimley-Horn and Associates Signs 32434 SF Lease at Park Central 789 Citybizlist Real Estate Design consulting firm Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has signed a new 32434-square-foot lease at Park Central 789, which is located at 12750 Merit Drive near the southwest corner of I-635 and North Central Expressway in D » |
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