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• Member named as Distinguished Alumni

  - 2006-06-01

  Douglas Bryant, superintendent and secretary to the Board of Commissioners for Three Rivers Park District, was honored last month as one of 100 Distinguished Alumni for the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. Bryant received a bachelor's degree in Park and Recreation Administration from...

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• Innovex Announces Board of Directors Changes; Names Kenneth J. Roering to Board, Townsend H. Porter Resigns

  - 2006-02-21

  MAPLE PLAIN, Minn. -- Innovex (Nasdaq:INVX) today announced the addition of Kenneth J. Roering, 62, to the company's Board of Directors. Dr. Roering is currently Professor of Marketing in the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota and Executive Vice President, Strategic Management, Marshall BankFirst Corp. He occupied...

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• Former Minnesota Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz Joins RiverSource Funds Board

  - 2006-01-12

  MINNEAPOLIS -- RiverSource Funds Board Chairman, Arne Carlson, today announced the election of retired Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz to the RiverSource Funds' Boards of Directors. Blatz served on the Minnesota Supreme Court for ten years and as Chief Justice for the past eight years. She graduated Summa...

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• Association of Academic Health Centers Names Frank B. Cerra Chairman of Board of Directors

  - 2005-10-06

  WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Frank B. Cerra, MD, senior vice president for health sciences at the University of Minnesota, has been named chairman of the board of directors of the Association of Academic Health Centers. Dr. Cerra assumed leadership of the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center in...

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• Members of the University of Minnesota's governing board have put their vote of confidence in President Robert Bruininks, deciding in September to give him a raise and extend his contract

  - 2004-10-01

  Members of the University of Minnesota's governing board have put their vote of confidence in President Robert Bruininks, deciding in September to give him a raise and extend his contract. His new annual salary, which comes to $348,500, reflects a 2.5 percent raise. His new contract runs through June 2008....

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• OBITUARIES: THOMAS GILLINGHAM JR.

  - 2004-10-01

  Thomas E. Gillingham Jr., 91, died April 19, 2004 in Oxford, PA, after a brief illness.After graduating with honors from Harvard University in 1934, Gillingham received his master's degree from the University of Arizona in 1936. He spent the next three years in the Far East as a geologist. While...

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• Minnesota Attorney General's Efforts 'Insult' HealthPartners Board.

  - 2003-01-28

  By Mike Hughlett, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--There's a bank executive, a college administrator, a union leader, a couple of doctors and a dozen other folks in top-echelon roles, each of them with a history of...

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• Media Will Sue to Stop University of Minnesota Board's Closed Interviews.

  - 2002-11-07

  By Kristina Torres, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Kristina Torres, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

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• Agweek Magazine People Column.

  - 2001-04-24

  Agweek Magazine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 24--GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Marlene Niemann has joined Farm Credit Services of Grand Forks, N.D., as a financial service officer for the Grafton, N.D., branch. Niemann is from Wheaton, Minn. She received a bachelor's degree in plant...

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• Jean D. Kinsey

  - 2000-11-15

  2000 Fellow Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1987-- present Director, The Retail Food Industry Center, University of Minnesota 1995--present Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1977--1987 AAEA Executive Board, 1992--95 AAEA Foundation Board of Directors 1987--1990...

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