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• Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  - 2007-08-09

  DR. MICHELLE R. HOWARD-VITAL has been appointed president of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. She had previously been interim chancellor of Winston-Salem State University. Howard-Vital earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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• Enzo Biochem Strongly Positioned for Growth Opportunities, Annual Meeting Told

  - 2007-01-25

  Board Elects Dr. Stephen Kent, Nationally Recognized Biomedical Researcher and University of Chicago Professor, a Director NEW YORK -- Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE: ENZ) is positioning itself for important growth in the years ahead, shareholders attending the annual meeting here were told. Citing major pioneering patents awarded to...

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• Nobelist Friedman dies at 94

  - 2006-11-17

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94. Friedman died in San Francisco, said Robert Fanger, a spokesman for the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation in Indianapolis....

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• Influential economist Milton Friedman dies at age 94

  - 2006-11-17

  WASHINGTON -- Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, an outspoken advocate of free markets and free choice, adviser to presidents and best-selling author, died Thursday at 94. Often described as one of the most influential economists of the last century, Friedman died of heart failure in San Francisco. "He had...

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• Milton Friedman, Noted Economist, Nobel Laureate, and Hoover Senior Fellow, Dies at 94

  - 2006-11-16

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1977, died this morning. He was 94. Friedman also had the distinction of being the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the...

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• Business Services.(Focus: Who's Who)

  - 2006-09-04

  GARY D. AHLQUIST Senior vice-president, managing partner Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. Chicago Age: 53 Business: Management consulting Revenues millions: $3,700 Professional: Economic Club Civic: Children's Home...

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• Financial Services.(Focus: Who's Who)

  - 2006-09-04

  Carl S. Allegretti Midwest regional managing partner Deloitte Tax LLP Chicago Age: 45 Business: Professional services Revenues millions: $7,800 (Deloitte & Touche LLP) Professional: Economic Club; Chicago Business Forum;...

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• Leon Kass: when he chose his career, bioethics was a dead field. Today, it's at the heart of many of our society's most vexing controversies. And this physician-philosopher is the nation's leading voice on the subject.("Live" with TAE)(Interview

  - 2006-07-01

  Leon Kass is a medical doctor, biologist, ethicist, philosopher, and teacher. After decades as a professor at the University of Chicago, he accepted responsibility for chairing President Bush's Council on Bioethics, a position he held from 2001 until last year. Today he is the Hertog Fellow...

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• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

  - 2005-12-29

  University of Chicago President Don M. Randel announces his resignation to become president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which awards grants in fields including higher education and art conservation, effective July 2006.

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• Food.(Focus: Who's Who)

  - 2005-09-05

  Rick Bayless Chef, owner Frontera Grill, Topolobampo Partner Frontera Foods, Frontera Media Productions Chicago Age: 51 Business: Restaurants, prepared foods, television production, cookbooks ...

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