STATE OF MINNESOTA FIFTEENTH MEETING
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FOURTH SESSION
COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCE
MINUTES
Representative Bud Nornes, Chair of the Committee on Higher Education, called the fifteenth meeting to order at 12:38 PM on Wednesday, March 9, 2005, in Room 300S of the State Office Building.
The Clerk noted the roll.
Members present:
NORNES, Bud, Chair
OPATZ, Joe, Vice Chair
ABELER, Jim
ABRAMS, Ron
CARLSON, Lyndon
COX, Ray
DEMPSEY, Jerry
EASTLUND, Rob
LATZ, Ron
MARIANI, Carlos
PELOWSKI, Gene, Jr.
URDAHL, Dean
No members were excused.
No members were unexcused.
12:38:57 PM Chair Nornes unofficially called the meeting to order.
12:39:43 PM Chair Nornes and members discussed their visit to Brown College the previous week.
12:42:01 PM A quorum was present
12:42:09 PM Chair Nornes officially called the meeting to order.
12:42:14 PM Rep. Latz moved approval of the minutes: March 7, 2005. THE MOTION PREVAILED.
12:42:39 PM Biosciences for a Healthy Minnesota
Deborah Powell, M.D., Dean, University of Minnesota Medical School and Assistant Vice President for Clinical Sciences.
12:48:25 PM Michael Osterholm, Ph.D., MPH, Director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infections Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Associate Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD), and professor in the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health.
1:00:23 PM Shaun Kennedy, Associate Director – administration of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD) and associate director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Animal Health and Food Safety.
1:26:26 PM Timothy J. Ebner, M.D., Ph.D., Visscher Chair of Physiology, head of the University of Minnesota Department of Neuroscience since 1998, presented Brain Function Against the Life Line
1:50:53 PM Robert Elde, Ph.D., Dean, University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, J.B. Johnston Land Grant Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Neuroscience, presented New Products Through Biotechnology (see attached)
2:15:09 PM Chair Nornes adjourned the meeting.
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REP. BUD NORNES, CHAIR
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Mary Lee Telega
Committee Legislative Assistant