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A Few Minutes with Milt on KUNR
Posted by glick on 18 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About
I finish my two-part conversation with Beryl Love, Executive Editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal.
A Few Minutes with Milt on KUNR
Posted by glick on 12 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About
I begin a two-part conversation with Beryl Love, Executive Editor of the Reno Gazette Journal.
A Few Minutes with Milt on KUNR
Posted by glick on 04 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About
I chat with Dr. Walter Broecker, Professor of Geology at Columbia University’s Lamont-Daugherty Earth Observatory.
A Few Minutes with Milt on KUNR
Posted by glick on 28 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About
This week I talk with David Morrow, the new Professor of Business Journalism at the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism.
A Few Minutes with Milt on KUNR
Posted by glick on 21 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About, Uncategorized
I talk with Dr. Mary Anderson, Washoe County District Health Officer.
Hat’s off to Whittemore Peterson Institute for research breakthrough
Posted by glick on 09 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Misc., Our Community, Out and About, University
Yesterday it was announced that a recently identified retrovirus has been linked to a debilitating neuro-immune disease, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which affects more than one million people in the United States. The retroviral link was discovered by scientists from the Whittemore Peterson Institute, which is based on our main Reno campus, and their collaborators from the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic. The team recently published its groundbreaking findings in the journal, Science, one of the world’s leading scientific journals. In addition, this breakthrough is receiving significant and well deserved national media coverage. Continue Reading »
The marriage of economic development and higher education
Posted by glick on 08 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Our Community, Out and About
On Sunday, Oct. 4, I had the pleasure of delivering a keynote address for the International Economic Development Council’s 2009 annual conference, which was held at the Silver Legacy in Reno. As much as I enjoyed delivering my remarks, I truly enjoyed listening to what many of the attendees – about 900 in all – had to say about their communities and why they felt higher education was a must for their future. These individuals believe that economic development and higher education cannot be mutually exclusive terms, particularly at a time when the world and the nation are slowly moving from the wreckage of a deep recession. If history has taught us anything, higher education can provide the means for a community, a region or a country to reinvent, re-tool or re-think its prime industries and economy. Talented human capital in the form of a college-educated community population can provide the impetus for writing of a new chapter in the success of a community’s economic viability, and, ultimately, its economic vitality. If you are interested in reading my remarks for Sunday’s keynote, they are attached below.
Glick, Johnson share vision for campus’ future
Posted by glick on 08 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About, Town Hall Meetings
Read a recap of the Town Hall Meeting on October 7, 2009.
http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5206&zoneid=14
$10 million Pennington gift and a ‘Duh’ moment
Posted by glick on 07 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About, University
I thoroughly enjoyed our annual Foundation Banquet on Thursday night at John Ascuaga’s Nugget. There were so many highlights: the event was sold-out and more than 900 people attended; our featured speaker, Harvard medical professor Dr. Atul Gawande, delivered an excellent talk on the struggle to perform well in any endeavor, as well as health care in the United States; it was announced during the banquet that the William N. Pennington Foundation has committed $10 million to the University for the purpose of a new Health Sciences Building. The Pennington gift, along with a $2.5 million gift from the Nell J. Redfield Foundation and a $1 million gift from the Thelma B. and Thomas P. Hart Foundation brings the total private investment in the building to $15 million. Continue Reading »
A Few Minutes with Milt on KUNR
Posted by glick on 30 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About
This week I chat with Heath Morrison, Superintendent of the Washoe County School District.