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By Karen Robes Meeks and Joe Segura, Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif. Aug. 2--LONG BEACH -- Home Depot has pulled the plug on plans to build a home-design center in East Long Beach, but plans to develop the land are still moving forward. The decision, in part, is based on the company's move to achieve "capital efficiency," during a period of economic woes, a spokeswoman told the Press-Telegram on Friday. "The Home Depot is currently not moving forward with its plans to build at the...

By Karen Robes Meeks; Joe Segura LONG BEACH - Home Depot has pulled the plug on plans to build a home-design center in East Long Beach, but plans to develop the land are still moving forward. The decision, in part, is based on the company's move to achieve "capital efficiency," during a period of economic woes, a spokesperson told the Press-Telegram on Friday. "The Home Depot is currently not moving forward with its plans to build at the proposed Long Beach site," said Kathryn Gallagher,...

By Karen Robes Meeks LONG BEACH - A developer's settlement with neighborhood and environmental groups may have all but ended $21.5-million plans for a Home Depot design center on 16.5 acres east of Studebaker Road at Loynes Drive, leaving its fate uncertain. The Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust announced that developer Tom Dean of Studebaker LLC has settled with the trust and the University Park Estates Neighborhood Association. According to the Land Trust's release, Dean agreed to settle...

To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Ted Montgomery of Oakland University, +1-248-370-4346; or Colette Stimmell of Beaumont Hospitals, +1-248-551-0740 Gift Support, Name, Vision Also Announced ROCHESTER, Mich., July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Oakland Universitys Board of Trustees today approved the appointment of Robert Folberg, M.D., as the founding dean of the allopathic medical school Oakland will open with Beaumont Hospitals in 2010 with a charter class of 50 students. Oakland and Beaumont...

By The Eagle, Bryan, Texas Jul. 31--The Texas A&M System Board of Regents will meet this week to consider the dismissal of the founding dean of the Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health. Dr. Ciro Sumaya has served in his post for the past decade and helped celebrate the school's 10th anniversary this year. It remained unclear Wednesday why Sumaya -- the only Latino dean working at the main and medical campuses in College Station -- apparently will be relieved of his duties....

By Edelstein, Art Much of the growth in the technology sector of the Vermont economy will come from the state's colleges as graduates enter the business world or bring their projects with them. The state's higher education institutions, especially the University of Vermont, develop new technologies and products as part of their research. Educators say they are pushing harder to make Vermont more technology intensive but their efforts will take time and money. Domenico Grasso is the Dean of...

Richard K. Lyons, the chief learning officer of Goldman Sachs, New York, was named the 14th dean of the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced today (July 18, 2008). Lyons holds a professorship at the Haas School and served as acting dean of the school in 2004/05. He succeeds Tom Campbell, an economist, a former Stanford Law School professor, and former Congressman, who led the Haas School since 2002. As chief learning...

By Meghan Gilbert, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Jul. 18--University of Toledo students yesterday told their president that the resignation of the arts and sciences dean does not solve all the problems surrounding the college. "What we're talking about is policy, not personality," said Evan Morrison, a junior majoring in history and one of the leaders of the Students in Support of Arts and Sciences group. "I hope this changes the way the administration is treating the arts and sciences college....

By Alicia Spates, Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill. Jul. 17--Everett Dean wants everyone to know he has done his research. Having a love for 1950s and '60s music, Dean is often questioned about his knowledge of the type of music he performs. And his baby-face features and young age don't help his argument. "I get comments all the time: 'You're too young to know that (song). What do you know about that?' " the 28-year-old said from his home in St. Louis. "Because of my dad, I feel like I grew...

By Meghan Gilbert, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Jul. 17--The dean of the University of Toledo's college of arts and sciences has resigned three months after faculty voiced concern about his leadership. Yueh-Ting Lee's resignation was accepted Tuesday by UT Provost Rosemary Haggett and is effective Sept. 19. A letter was sent to the campus community yesterday about the leadership change. Mr. Lee will remain as an administrator at the university, accepting the new position of associate vice...