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• What's important about dispute resolution?

  - 2008-09-01

  Managers and employees disagree on lots of issues--including the best way to resolve disputes. In union and nonunion workplaces, speed and satisfaction have long been the gold standard for deciding whether to arbitrate, mediate, litigate or take some alternative route. But, in an article in the July issue of Industrial...

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• Medical College of Wisconsin Names Dean

  - 2008-01-01

  JONATHAN I. RAVDIN, M.D., the Nesbitt Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School and an international leader in infectious diseases, has been appointed Dean and Executive Vice President of the Medical College of Wisconsin. Ravdin's work has lead to the development and...

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• Remarks by the First Lady After a Briefing on St. Paul Community Partnerships Serving American Indian Youth

  - 2007-08-03

  ST. PAUL, Minn. -- University of Minnesota St. Paul Student Center 12:45 P.M. CDT MRS. BUSH: Well, thank you all very, very much. I talked about you in my speech -- many of you were in there. But the whole idea of bringing the whole community together is...

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• TCF Bank Stadium Logo Unveiled

  - 2007-07-11

  MINNEAPOLIS -- The University of Minnesota and TCF Bank celebrated the commencement of construction at the new $288 million on-campus football facility to be known as TCF Bank Stadium. The facility is scheduled to open in August of 2009. TCF Financial Corporation was a real catalyst to bringing gopher...

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• IN MEMORIAM: MARIO ALBERTO RAMOS OLMOS, 1949-2006

  - 2007-07-01

  Mario Alberto Ramos Olmos died suddenly and unexpectedly at his home in Washington, D.C, in the early morning of 11 September 2006, of heart failure. His passing was a staggering loss to the ornithological and conservation community to which he had devoted his immense skill, energy, and intelligence for more...

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• Medica Supports Minnesota Partnership

  - 2007-04-18

  Awards $5 Million for Cancer, Heart Research MINNETONKA, Minn. -- Medica, through its grant-making arm the Medica Foundation, has awarded $5 million to the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics to support three research projects in cancer and heart disease, as well as two projects to provide critical...

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• School teacher charged in abuse Police say man touched girls inappropriately.(News)

  - 2007-02-01

  Byline: Jason King Daily Herald Staff Writer Police arrested a Hainesville art teacher Wednesday in connection with sexual abuse cases out of Minnesota between five and six years ago. Baofeng Wang, 37, of 307 Christine Lane, was arrested on a Minnesota warrant...

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• Griffin International Companies appoints Dr. Hong Yang Vice President, Asian Operations

  - 2007-01-19

  MINNEAPOLIS -- Griffin International Companies today announced the appointment of Dr. Hong Yang as Vice President, Asian Operations, effective immediately. Dr. Yang was formerly the Director of the China Center of the University of Minnesota from May 2000 to December 31, 2006. Bob Griffin, President and CEO of Griffin...

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• Some Decomposition Methods For Revenue Management

  BNET - 2006-10-23

  Working within a Markov Decision Process MDP framework, the authors have studied revenue management policies that combine aspects of mathematical programming approaches and pure MDP methods by decomposing the problem by time, state, or both. The "Time decomposition" policies employ heuristics early in the booking horizon, and switch to a...

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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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