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Volume 5, Issue 8 Mar. 11, 2005 Circulation 19,448
Newsletter from the Office of Vice President of Research and Graduate Education

Texas University News

University of Texas System and Texas Heart Institute Announce Affiliation Agreement
Prothro Foundation Pledges $500,000 To UTD's Center for BrainHealth
TCU Celebrates Naming of TCU Schieffer School of Journalism
Yale Dean Named SMU Provost
Palmarozzi Named Chair of Family Medicine
Naval Grant Funds Development of Wafer-Scale, Single-Electron Memory Devices
Aerospace Professors Receive Patent for Propulsion System
Researchers Receive Artificial Insemination Device Patent
HSC Researchers Map Destructive Gene

Texas Corporate News

Harold Simmons Foundation Gives $5 Million To Children's Medical Center Dallas
EDS-Led Consortium Named Preferred Bidder For U.K. Ministry Of Defence Infrastructure Project
i2 Board of Directors Names Michael E. McGrath Chief Executive Officer and President
Emergisoft Adds St. John's Riverside Hospital To Client Base
4Production and i2 Announce Reseller Partnership in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Perot Systems Appoints Singh to Board of Directors and Ravichander as Managing Director
Permeo Appoints Roy Shamir Vice President of Development
Lowndes County, Georgia Chooses EDEN Software From Tyler Technologies
Lockheed Martin Names New Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

Commentary

Dr. Da Hsuan Feng: Comments at the Opening Ceremony of the US-Mexico Workshop on Nanotechnology

Upcoming Events

USA-China Business Forum (Mar. 14)
IEEE Consultants Network Program (Mar. 14)
Strategic Planning for Business and Non-profits (Mar. 15)
IEEE Communications and Vehicular Technology Section (Mar. 15)
What's after iTunes? (Mar. 24)
The Case for Intelligent Design (Mar. 26)
Lunch with Congressman Joe Barton (Apr. 29)

Other News

Warnings on Woeful Wi-Fi Security
Scientists Solve Mystery of Meteor Crater's Missing Melted Rocks
Hubble Weighs in on the Heaviest Stars in the Galaxy
Malaria Drastically Underestimated