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LAURELS: Board Post and Award for Chancellor

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Gary S. May, smiling, posing, on the Quad.
Chancellor Gary S. May returns from APLU meeting in San Diego as a new member of the executive committee of the APLU board of directors.

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  • He鈥檚 elected to the executive committee of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
  • Dana Topousis, chief marketing and communications officer, also serves on the APLU board of directors
  • Chancellor May and Sacramento Mayor Steinberg receive national honors for work on Aggie Square

The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, or APLU, board of directors elected Chancellor Gary S. May to its executive committee last weekend, four days after another national association honored May and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg for their work on Aggie Square.

May鈥檚 election to the APLU board鈥檚 executive committee took place Sunday (Nov. 10) in San Diego amid the association鈥檚 annual meeting.

The board also awarded an executive committee seat to Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She and May serve on the board of directors as representatives of the APLU鈥檚 Council of Presidents; Blank is the council chair and May is the secretary.

ANOTHER BOARD MEMBER

Dana Topousis mugshot

新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis has another leader at the APLU table: Dana Topousis, chief marketing and communications officer, who is chair of the APLU鈥檚 Council on Strategic Communications, and, as such, serves on the board of directors.

Robert Jones, chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, took office Monday (Nov. 11) as the board president. May鈥檚 position on the executive committee puts him in line to be president in three years.

Founded in 1887, the APLU is North America鈥檚 oldest association of institutions of higher education. The association, with a membership of 243 institutions, is dedicated to strengthening and advancing the work of public universities in the United States, Canada and Mexico, through research, policy work and advocacy.

鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled to have Gary May join the APLU board of directors and the board鈥檚 executive committee,鈥 APLU President Peter McPherson said. 鈥淎s a higher education leader and engineer by training, we鈥檙e looking forward to his vast analytical ability and strategic vision.

鈥淭he board of directors plays an essential role in shaping APLU鈥檚 work to advance the education, research and engagement missions of public higher education. We are so pleased that Gary will be at the table helping to provide a national direction.鈥

Aggie Square award

Three men, posed, two holding trophies.
Accolades in Atlanta: Pictured, from left, Mark Romney, chief strategy officer for Aggie Square; Mayor Darrell Steinberg; and Chancellor Gary S. May.

The Association of University Research Parks, or AURP, gave its Leadership Award to Chancellor May and Mayor Steinberg in recognition of the unique partnership they established for Aggie Square, the innovation hub planned on 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥 Sacramento campus.

Aggie Square matches 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥 strengths to community priorities and engages relevant industry partners to create opportunities for all, unlike many other research parks that focus exclusively on startups or narrowly focused industries.

鈥淭his recognition gives us extra confidence we鈥檙e not just on the right track with Aggie Square, we鈥檙e on the cusp of doing something transformative for the greater Sacramento region,鈥 May said. 鈥淢ayor Steinberg and his team have been by our side through the whole process and have helped us see the possibilities of what we can accomplish.鈥

The award presentation took place Nov. 6 during the AURP鈥檚 international conference, Accelerating Innovation: People, Programs, Places, held at the Georgia Institute of Technology鈥檚 Tech Square in midtown Atlanta. Chancellor May knows Tech Square well. As Georgia Tech鈥檚 dean of engineering, before coming to 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, he played a role in Tech Square鈥檚 development. He鈥檚 now using his experiences seeding and fostering that 鈥渋nnovation ecosystem鈥 to inform the plans for Aggie Square.

Mayor Steinberg said: 鈥淲e have the opportunity with Aggie Square to take the best of what we know about creating career pathways and use it to build a model that will provide new opportunities for young people in our neighborhoods.

鈥淚 thank Chancellor May for enthusiastically embracing this vision, which goes far beyond the usual handful of internships.鈥

The AURP Leadership Award, given to two people for the first time, recognizes business, higher education, government or community leaders who have made significant and substantial contributions to the creation, development and/or regional impact of a research park, science park or innovation district affiliated with one or more institutions of higher education.

Brian Darmody, chief executive officer of the AURP, noted the association is keeping track of 鈥渢his amazing project鈥檚 progress,鈥 thanks to updates from AURP board member Mark Romney, chief strategy officer for Aggie Square, and director of research, development and industry alliances for 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health. 

鈥淲e are thrilled that the two leading members of the community are being honored today for their role in making it happen,鈥 Dermody said.

In June, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis issued a request for qualifications to developers interested in financing, designing, building, owning and managing the first phase of Aggie Square. Officials narrowed the candidates to four and have asked them for proposals; one of them is due to be selected in December. Construction is scheduled to begin in mid-2021.


Dateline 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis welcomes news of faculty and staff awards, for publication in Laurels. Send information to dateline@ucdavis.edu.

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