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Issue date: 10/19/07 Section: News
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CEO, vice president to speak to students
Brian Walker, president and CEO of Herman Miller Inc., and Paul DeRoche, financial adviser and vice president of Merrill Lynch, will speak on campus about their business experience. The business administrator's speeches are part of the Dow Corning Executive in Residence Program. As the CEO of Herman Miller, Walker oversees the production of office furniture for healthcare facilities. In addition to serving the healthcare industry, Walker has supported community service. Walker's employees have volunteered more than 58,000 hours to community service. DeRoche runs a team of financial workers that services families in need in the Metro Detroit area. His firm was ranked first among full-service brokers in the state by Smart Money Magazine. Walker will speak at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium. DeRoche will hold his presentation at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Pierpont Auditorium in the Applied Business Studies Complex.
McNair Scholars Program
Money granted to research program
Central Michigan University's McNair Scholars Program has made research opportunities available to students before graduate school. The program was recently given $1 million by the U.S. Department of Education to continue with its research. Mount Pleasant junior Maureen Harke already has completed research in the psychology department involving child abuse and treatment options for disruptive children. Harke said the program has helped her research techniques. The McNair Program is offered to first generation and low-income college students. CMU is one of six Michigan universities to offer the program.
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Brian Walker, president and CEO of Herman Miller Inc., and Paul DeRoche, financial adviser and vice president of Merrill Lynch, will speak on campus about their business experience. The business administrator's speeches are part of the Dow Corning Executive in Residence Program. As the CEO of Herman Miller, Walker oversees the production of office furniture for healthcare facilities. In addition to serving the healthcare industry, Walker has supported community service. Walker's employees have volunteered more than 58,000 hours to community service. DeRoche runs a team of financial workers that services families in need in the Metro Detroit area. His firm was ranked first among full-service brokers in the state by Smart Money Magazine. Walker will speak at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium. DeRoche will hold his presentation at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Pierpont Auditorium in the Applied Business Studies Complex.
McNair Scholars Program
Money granted to research program
Central Michigan University's McNair Scholars Program has made research opportunities available to students before graduate school. The program was recently given $1 million by the U.S. Department of Education to continue with its research. Mount Pleasant junior Maureen Harke already has completed research in the psychology department involving child abuse and treatment options for disruptive children. Harke said the program has helped her research techniques. The McNair Program is offered to first generation and low-income college students. CMU is one of six Michigan universities to offer the program.
If you have an interesting item for Life in Brief,
let us know by e-mailing
David Veselenak at
news1@cm-life.com
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