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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney appointed Kathy Kottarodis to serve as the state’s first small business advocate. Kottarodis had been director of small business and entrepreneurship within the state’s office of business and technology.

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Dan Lohymeyer has stepped down as president of Ohio's IT Alliance.

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Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology has promoted Dan Mills to vice president for regional operations.