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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'>Dear Engineering faculty, students, and staff:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'>This is a friendly reminder that the Cullen College of
Engineering will be hosting on November 12, 2010 a &#8220;Faculty Entrepreneur
Brown Bag&#8221; lunch for all faculty, research graduate students, and staff
who would like to learn about commercialization of their research, how to form
a start-up company, prepare SBIR proposals, locate investment capital, the
value of mentoring, and more.&nbsp; A panel of successful faculty entrepreneurs
and experts will provide case studies and answer questions.&nbsp; The Brown Bag
lunch is part of the College of Engineering&#8217;s initiative to support its
faculty entrepreneurs and the university&#8217;s Tier One activities.&nbsp; The
Brown Bag is a follow-on to the September 2010 Entrepreneur Boot Camp.&nbsp; Lunch
will be provided.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'>Faculty Entrepreneur Brown Bag panelists:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>&middot;<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'>Dr. Venkat (&#8220;Selva&#8221;) Selvamanickam, M.D. Anderson
Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Chief Technology Advisor, SuperPower<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>&middot;<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'>Dr. Richard Willson, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, Professor, Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>&middot;<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'>Dr. Badrinath (Badri) Roysam, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz
Cullen University Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computing
Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;
color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>&middot;<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'>Julie Goonewardene, Founder and Managing Partner, IPVentured <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'>The event will be held from 12:00&#8211;2:00 p.m. in room W
122, Eng Bldg 2.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'>Please register by emailing Jamie Fricks at <a
href="mailto:jlfricks@uh.edu"><span style='color:windowtext'>jlfricks@uh.edu</span></a>&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext'>Best regards,<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Joseph W. Tedesco, Ph.D., P.E.<br>
Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean and Professor<br>
Cullen College of Engineering</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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