UC Senior Vice President Resigns
The University of California announced yesterday that Joseph P. Mullinix, the senior vice president of business and finance, will resign in March to take a job in Singapore.
In his new position, Mullinix will serve as the deputy president of administration for the National University of Singapore.
In his UC post, Mullinix was responsible for the development and oversight of the university’s financial system, internal audit, business functions and human resources.
“UC is a highly complex system and [Mullinix] has amassed a record of substantial accomplishments over the past five years of helping us to be a more effective, service-oriented organization,” UC President Robert C. Dynes stated in a press release. “He will be missed greatly and we wish him well.”
Mullinix will resign after the UC Board of Regents’ meeting in March, and Dynes stated he will appoint a committee to conduct a nationwide search for Mullinix’s replacement.
“UC is a remarkable and unique institution, and I’ve appreciated deeply the opportunity to serve the university and the people of California,” Mullinix stated in a press release.
UC Committees to Meet at UCSD
The UC Board of Regents’ committees responsible for the oversight of grounds and buildings and for university audits will meet at Price Center on Jan. 17 at 11 a.m.
During the meeting, the grounds and buildings committee will consider action on a budget and capital improvements, the approval of new housing at UCSD and UC Santa Barbara, a UCSD cardiovascular center, the Thornton Hospital expansion as well as environmental and design approvals at UC Riverside projects.
The audit committee will consider action on the appointment of the university’s external auditor and discuss the university’s Human Resources Accreditation and Policy Assurance Program.
Laser Technique Exposes Blood Clots
A new technique developed by UCSD researchers that creates and images blood clots in the brain could make it possible to understand small strokes that are implicated in many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.
The study, published this week in the online version of the journal Public Library of Science Biology, represents a collaboration between the research groups of physics professor David Kleinfeld and neurosciences professor Patrick Lyden. The printed version of the study will appear in the February issue of the journal.
The researchers were able to monitor the changes in blood flow using a laser to trigger the formation of blood clots in the brains of anesthetized rats.
“Joining forces allowed us to crack a puzzle that either one of us couldn’t crack alone,” Lyden stated.
They say that this technique provides a way to understand small strokes that are common in elderly people.
“Our technique makes it possible, for the first time, to precisely target individual blood vessels to create a blood clot while causing very little collateral damage,” Kleinfeld stated in a press release. “We can then follow, in real time, the changes in blood flow in surrounding vessels that occur as a result of the formation of a clot in one small artery of the brain.”
Kleinfeld and Lyden credited the discovery to collaboration across traditional disciplines.
“Pat and I are coming from different worlds, but we had the same question at the back of our minds,” said Kleinfeld.
