Whatever happened to Ken Malone? He used to be all over the place, but it seems since Katrina (perhaps before), we've heard nothing from him. Did he leave and I missed it? Or did he go back to his first love of teaching?
South Mississippi could be the next Silicon Valley....
...About 25 participants in Southern Miss' 3-year-old Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, or IGERT, most of them doctoral candidates, translate research in both fields into real-world applications that promise to enhance health care with new drugs and new delivery systems. The program is funded through a five-year, $3.8 million grant with the National Science Foundation....
..."This program is an integral part of our whole strategy of technology-based development in Hattiesburg," said Ken Malone, chair of the economic and workforce development program who oversees the entrepreneurship side of the IGERT program....
Thanks, info. That's funny...I actually helped to write that grant when I was working in the Polymer Science dept. Worked on it for about a year...that was when Doug Wicks was chair (such a great guy, by the way).