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Microsoft exec. to deliver keynote at UNCG Corporate Expo

Robert McDowell, vice president for information worker business value at Microsoft Corp., will deliver a keynote address on the relationship between business and higher education at a UNCG conference Oct. 24.

McDowell's talk will be the headlining event for the morning-long UNCG Corporate Expo, an event dedicated to networking and discussions between corporate executives and the higher-education community. Other participants include Leslie Boney, associate vice president for economic development research, policy and planning at UNC-CH; Rosemary Wander, UNCG associate provost for research and public/private sector partnership; and Valerie McMurray, vice president of human resources and leadership at Weaver Investment Company.

The expo, which starts at 7:45 a.m. and ends at 11 a.m, with an address from the UNCG chancellor, is sponsored by American Express, Wachovia, Key Resources, the Bryan School of Business and Economics, the UNCG Office of Research and Public/Private Sector Partnerships and the UNCG Office of Development.

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Brad Henry said:

I also heard that there may be additional big wigs from microsoft coming as well. I don't know if they are going to be speaking but I would guess they wouldn't come to Greensboro unless their was intention.

Thanks,
Brad Henry

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