The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences has appear that Dr. William F. Greenlee, admiral and CEO, accustomed the Benjamin Rush Award and delivered the 2009-2010 Rush address on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. Each year, Dickinson College bestows the celebrated Rush Award to aberrant leaders in business or government who advocate humanistic ethics and whose accomplishments body the amount of a advanced arts education.
A accession and banquet was captivated in Greenlee’s honor, followed by his accessible address and the presentation of the Rush Award. The accolade was accommodating by Dickinson College’s Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, which aims to accompany the advanced arts to activity by abutting students’ adventures in the classroom with acute issues against local, civic and all-embracing communities.
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“Dr. William Greenlee’s arresting accomplishments as a scientist and his administration of The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences accomplish him the ideal applicant to accept the Rush award,” said William G. Durden, admiral of Dickinson College. “When Rush founded Dickinson in the closing canicule of the American Revolution, he aimlessly knew that science—and decidedly chemistry—would become the engine abaft the conception of new ability and analysis that would drive the development of the new nation. Throughout Dr. Greenlee’s career, he has accomplished Rush’s apocalypse as he has formed to affiliate academia, the clandestine area and government to conduct translational analysis to advanced accessible health.”
“I am accustomed to accept my name added to the account of recipients of the Benjamin Rush Award,” said Greenlee. “It was a amusement to participate in Dickinson College’s anniversary break to recommit to its celebrated authorization and to be accustomed a allotment of those whose able achievements actualize the spirit and ambition of architect Benjamin Rush.”
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- Recent recipients of the Rush accolade cover Ambassador Louise Frechette, agent secretary-general of the United Nations; William Flynn, administrator of the axle of Mutual of America; Dr. Kim Chulsu, above agent secretary-general of the World Trade Organization; Arthur Levitt, above administrator of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Larry Bossidy, above administrator of the axle of Honeywell International, Inc; and Stephen J. Adler, editor-in-chief of Business Week.
- The Benjamin Rush Award was accustomed in 1985.
- Recipients accept an honorarium and a brownish badge address the affinity of Dr. Benjamin Rush, who was the architect of Dickinson College and a attestant of the Declaration of Independence.
ABOUT WILLIAM F. GREENLEE, PH.D.:
William F. Greenlee, Ph.D. is admiral and arch controlling administrator of The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, and arch controlling administrator and administrator of the Health Research and Education Foundation at The Hamner. Early in his career, Dr. Greenlee was a postdoctoral adolescent at the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT), The Hamner’s predecessor. When he acclimatized a position in 1980 as abettor assistant of toxicology at Harvard University’s School of Public Health, Dr. Greenlee did not apperceive that he would acknowledgment to CIIT — not already but several times, in altered capacities — and eventually cast the alignment into the world-class, capital biomedical sciences analysis and apprenticeship convention that it is today. Under Dr. Greenlee’s direction, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences is a new article that exists alfresco the boundaries of the acceptable university, yet facilitates collective initiatives with Duke University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as able-bodied as schools aural the UNC academy system. Through these collaborative initiatives with universities and the seamless affiliation with the activity sciences industry, the investment in biomedical analysis by the accessible and clandestine sectors will added bigger be translated into articles that will advance animal health.
ABOUT THE HAMNER INSTITUTES FOR HEALTH SCIENCES:
The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences is strategically amid on a 56-acre campus in the affection of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. As a cross-disciplinary nonprofit organization, The Hamner Institutes acts as a agitator to facilitate technology development a allotment of North Carolina universities, while confined as a aperture to authorize analysis collaborations with the bio/pharmaceutical industry and countries in Europe and Asia. The Hamner Institutes aswell has an Accelerator to abutment arising companies and a new Institute for Translational Medicine to enhance its analysis in oncology, diabetes, and respiratory diseases. For added information, amuse appointment www.thehamner.org.
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