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Annual Nunn Forum focuses on commercialization of the academy

By Sharron Hannon
shannon@uga.edu

The explosive growth in the number of patents and copyrights, commercial ventures and new companies developed over the past decade by university faculties across the country will be examined at the sixth annual Sam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum, jointly sponsored by UGA, Emory University and Georgia Tech.
Karen Holbrook, UGA’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, is the keynote speaker for the opening session of the public portion of the forum on “Commercialization of the Academy” to be held April 6-7 at Emory University’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center.
Among the other conference speakers are Derek Bok, president emeritus of Harvard University; James Duderstadt, president emeritus of the University of Michigan; and Zach Hall, president and CEO of Envivo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
The Nunn Forum is an annual meeting that brings together noted academic, government and private sector experts on international affairs, public policy and technology to address issues of immediate and future importance to the nation. The forum setting rotates among the three universities that serve as co-sponsors.
“The 2002 forum will strive to develop a set of balanced and effective recommendations helpful to university administrators and faculty members in the area of intellectual property,” says Nunn, who served as a U.S. senator from Georgia from 1972 to 1996. “The findings produced at the forum also will be shared with policymakers and the broader public through congressional testimony, journal articles and an edited volume of the meeting’s proceedings.”
The 2002 forum is supported by gifts from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Bank of America. The conference organizer is Donald G. Stein, Asa G. Candler Professor of Neurology and Emergency Medicine at Emory.

Registration
Registration is free and includes meals, but space is limited. Registration forms, which should be returned no later than March 21, can be found online at www.emory.edu/PROVOST/SamNunnForum or can be obtained by calling either (404) 727-1155 or (877) 727-1155.

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