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Volume 6, Issue 60
Aug 31, 2007

Circulation: 18,120
Editor: Beth Keithly

Friday FYI

Newsletter from the The Office of Global Strategies and International Relations - U. T. Dallas

University News

NIH Funds Centers to Study Structural Biology of HIV
University of Washington to Open China Office in Beijing
NIH Peer Review Advisory Committee Gains Eight New Members
Robert Buhrman Named Vice Provost for Research; Robert Richardson to Become Science Adviser
Richard Hodges Named Director of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Wharton's Schmittlein Named New MIT Sloan Dean
Tom Campbell to Step Down as Berkeley's Haas School of Business Dean in July 2008
Museum of Nature & Science First: UT Dallas Students, Faculty Contribute to Exhibit Content

Industry News

EDS Awarded $68 Million Contract Extension by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
General Dynamics Awarded $20 Million for M1A1 Abrams Reset
Nortel Wins $39 Million Award from Homeland Security

Venture Capital News

Ocean Tomo To Sell Social Networking Patent at Oct 25 Auction in Chicago
Austin Ventures Announces Addition of Joe Marengi as Venture Partner
Rick Lewis Promoted to Principal at U.S. Venture Partners
@Ventures Invests in Propel Biofuels, Inc.
Citicorp Venture Capital Announces Investment in WNA

Commentary

David E. Daniel: The Ordinary Things That Count

Upcoming Events

Dallas IEEE CVT Meeting: Voice Over Wireless Local Area Networks (Sept. 18)
NanoTX'07 to Feature Important Printed Electronics Summit
(Oct. 3-4)
BioPartnering Europe (BPE) Calls for Applications to Present (Oct. 7-9) 2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop (Nov. 11-12)