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Jennifer Alexander is the new president of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. George C. Atkinson has been appointed Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of State.

The first director for the new Indiana Venture Center will be Steve Beck.

Buddy Buckingham, director of regional planning at Murray State University, will serve as interim director of the new MSU Innovations and Commercialization Center. Buckingham also currently serves in the Kentucky General Assembly.

The University of California, San Diego's CONNECT program will begin a search for a new director since Fred Cutler's resignation at the end of September.

People

Jennifer Alexander is the new president of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce.

People

Dr. George C. Atkinson has been appointed Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of State.

People

The first director for the new Indiana Venture Center will be Steve Beck.

People

Buddy Buckingham, director of regional planning at Murray State University, will serve as interim director of the new MSU Innovations and Commercialization Center. Buckingham also currently serves in the Kentucky General Assembly.

People

The University of California, San Diego's CONNECT program will begin a search for a new director since Fred Cutler's resignation at the end of September.

People

Indiana Governor Joe Kernan has nominated Katherine Lyon Davis to serve as Lieutenant Governor. Among her past positions, Davis served as manager of Indiana's 21st Century Research and Technology Fund in 1999.

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Julian Manly Earls is the new director of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

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Bill Shipp, president of Bechtel BWXT Idaho and lab director of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, is retiring effective Oct. 25. Paul Divjak will be his replacement.

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Team Northeast Ohio has picked Texan Robert Farley for its first executive director.

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Holmes Foster, chairman of the Iowa Values Fund, has announced his resignation.

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Tony Jeff has been selected to serve as executive director of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Mississippi.