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Ursula Burns - Elected to Board of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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July 4, 2008
|  | Ms. Ursula Burns, the President of the Xerox Corporation, was recently elected to the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Burns is responsible for Xerox's global research, development, engineering, marketing and manufacturing of Xerox technology, supplies and related services. She also oversees for the corporation Global Accounts, Information Management, Corporate Strategy, Human Resources and Ethics, and Marketing Operations. Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. | | |
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| Ms. Ursula Burns, the President of the Xerox Corporation, was recently elected to the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Burns is responsible for Xerox's global research, development, engineering, marketing and manufacturing of Xerox technology, supplies and related services. She also oversees for the corporation Global Accounts, Information Management, Corporate Strategy, Human Resources and Ethics, and Marketing Operations. Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. |
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| Dr. Lee D. Baker was recently named the Dean of Academic Affairs at Duke University's Trinity College. Excerpt: "Lee D. Baker, associate professor of cultural anthropology and African and African American studies at Duke University, has been named dean of academic affairs of Trinity College, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences George L. McLendon announced Monday. Trinity College is Duke’s liberal arts undergraduate college, and more than 80 percent of Duke undergraduates are enrolled in it. The remaining undergraduates are enrolled in the Pratt School of Engineering." |
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| Dr. Paula Allen-Meares was recently named the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Excerpt: "Paula Allen-Meares, dean of the nationally top-ranked school of social work at the University of Michigan, has been selected as the next chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), pending formal approval by the Board of Trustees. The chancellor serves as the executive officer of the UIC campus and reports to the president of the University of Illinois in a system that includes campuses in Urbana-Champaign and Springfield and the university's online Global Campus." |
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| Mr. Tim Scott recently became the first African-American Republican to represent South Carolina in the House of Representatives since Reconstruction. Excerpt: "Charleston County Council Chairman Tim Scott won a three-way primary for the District 117 seat Tuesday, virtually assuring that a black Republican will serve in the Statehouse for the first time since Reconstruction. Scott captured about 53 percent of the vote in the district, which covers Berkeley and Charleston counties." |
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| Mr. Cullen Jones recently made history by setting a swimming record. Excerpt: " Still excited about earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic Swim Team's 4x100-meter relay team last night, Irvington native Cullen Jones set an American record in the 50-meter freestyle preliminary this morning with a swim of 21.59 seconds. Jones, swimming in the next-to-the-last heat of the event, pulled away from the strong field in the final 25 meters, powering to the wall as the crowd cheered. When the results were announced, he ripped off his swim cap and slapped the water, then raised his fist to acknowledge the ovation and the mark." |
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| Ms. Queen Harrison recently became one of the youngest people to qualify for the 2008 Olympic team. Excerpt: "Having just completed her sophomore year at Virginia Tech, the 19-year-old Harrison became one of the youngest members of the United States team for the Beijing Games. And perhaps one of the most improbable. Just two weeks ago, Harrison was forced to withdraw from the N.C.A.A. championships with a hamstring injury... Her second-place finish came with special poignancy. In August, her father, William Harrison, is scheduled to be released from prison after being incarcerated for a decade on a drug conviction, Queen said. He has never seen her run competitively in person, but is expected to have a chance to watch her compete in Beijing on television, if not in the Olympic stadium." |
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| Ms. Hazel Clark recently qualified for the Olympic 800 meter run. Excerpt: "South Orange native Hazel Clark qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in the women's 800 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials Monday night. Clark, 30, a three-time NCAA indoor champion who went to Columbia High School in Maplewood, won the finals race in 1 minute, 59.82 seconds." |
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| Mr. Steven Vaughn-Lewis has overcome significant odds in his life and was recently awarded a full four-year academic scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Excerpt: "Steven Vaughn-Lewis is tall and lanky and sometimes stammers. But any first impressions of awkwardness vanish as he exudes a quiet confidence, often punctuated by a warm grin. It is a confidence that has grown over his 18 years, as he overcame homelessness, months of missing grade school, and stints in foster care. After his grandmother rescued him at age 8, he grew up in a Strawberry Mansion neighborhood where poverty runs deep, few have better than a high school diploma, and gunshots turn young black men like him into casualties of petty violence." |
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| Mr. Bernard Lagat recently won the men’s 5,000 meter finals and qualified for the US Olympic Team. Excerpt: "Bernard Lagat, who has won two Olympic medals for Kenya, qualified for his first United States Olympic team on Monday night, making a move in the final half lap to win the 5,000 meters at the track and field trials. The reigning world champion in the 3.1-mile event, Lagat ran patiently Monday and won in 13 minutes 27.47 seconds." |
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| Andrew Young, former ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, has reached out to mentor rapper T.I. Excerpt: "When he was growing up, most of T.I.'s male role models were either selling drugs or locked up in jail; he ended up following in both of those paths. Even after T.I. started his rap career and became one of its biggest stars, he didn't abandon a life of crime: He recently pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges and faces almost a year in jail. So T.I. would be the last person one would expect to be espousing the beliefs of Martin Luther King Jr. and reading the words of Andrew Young, the longtime civil rights leader, King compatriot and former U.N. ambassador." |
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