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April
19, 2004
Dean Of Biological Sciences At
UCSD Named One Of
'50 Most Important Hispanics In Technology' For 2004
By Kim McDonald
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Eduardo
Macagno
Photo Credit: UCSD Biological Sciences |
Eduardo R. Macagno,
Founding Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences at the
University of California, San Diego has been named one of the
nation’s “50 Most Important Hispanics in Business
and Technology” by Hispanic Engineer and Information
Technology.
The magazine’s
top 50 list for 2004 was selected from hundreds of submissions
from among the nation’s highest-achieving Hispanic executives,
managers and researchers in industry, government and academe.
“These are women
and men who have demonstrated leadership on a broad front, not
only in the workplace, but in their communities as well,”
the magazine’s editors said in announcing the list, which
will be featured in the June/July issue of the publication.
The editors added that their selections “are presented
to young people as role models, and the honorees’ accomplishments
are upheld as examples of the important, often unrecognized
contributions made on a daily basis by the thousands of Hispanics
in technology-related jobs.”
Others selected for
this year’s list include Juan N. Cento, President, FedEx
Express Latin America and Caribbean Division; Ralph Alvarez,
Chief Operations Officer, McDonald's USA; Thaddeus Arroyo, Chief
Information Officer, Cingular Wireless; Antonio M. Perez, President
and Chief Operating Officer, Eastman Kodak Company; Paulino
Barros, President, BellSouth Latin America; and Hector Ruiz,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc. The honorees will gather for a colloquium and awards dinner
on September 17 in Nashville to discuss ways to increase minority
entrepreneurship, executive development and educational readiness
for the Digital Economy.
Macagno, who emigrated from Argentina with his family in 1956,
became a U.S. citizen in 1961. He received his bachelor’s
degree in physics in 1963 at the University of Iowa, where he
worked with the famed James Van Allen on the early exploration
of the Earth’s radiation belts. He began his graduate
work in astrophysics at Columbia University, receiving a doctorate
in physics in 1968, but became interested in neurobiology as
a postdoctoral researcher and switched fields
Hired by Columbia
in 1973 as a young faculty member, Macagno quickly rose through
the academic ranks, eventually becoming the university’s
Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Education
and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a position
he held from 1993 to 2001. Since his arrival at UCSD in 2001,
Macagno has initiated and participated in a number of programs
to improve educational opportunities and science learning for
San Diego’s Latino youth.
At UCSD, he holds the
Richard C. Atkinson Chair in Biology, named after the former
UCSD Chancellor and President of the University of California
system. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Neurobiology.
He is well known for his studies of the mechanisms of growth
and development of the nervous system, and still maintains an
active research laboratory, supported by the National Institutes
of Health, in parallel with his many administrative responsibilities.
Media Contacts:
Kim McDonald, UCSD (858) 534-7572
Vishal Thakkar, Hispanic
Engineer, (410) 244-7401 ext. 127
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