USD Magazine, Summer-Fall 1993

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USD ANNOUNCES ENDOWED CHAIR IN BIOLOGY

The Fletcher Jones Foundation has awarded $1.5 million to the University of San Diego to endow and establish the Fletcher Jones Chair in Biology, the uni– versity's first endowed chair in the sci– ences. USD will fill the chair with a teacher-scholar in developmental biology who will enhance the reputation of the university's relatively young biology department, said President Author E. Hughes. "We are most grateful to The Fletch– er Jones Foundation for its commitment to private education," Hughes said. "Thanks to the foundation's generosity, this chair will enlighten our biology stu– dents for generations to come." The Fletcher Jones Foundation was established through a bequest from the

late Fletcher Jones, co-founder of Com– puter Sciences Corp. Of the $40 million in grants the foundation has awarded since 1972, $30 million has gone to pri– vate colleges and universities, most of them in California. USD's Department of Biology is a lib– eral arts program of instruction in the life sciences, placing a strong emphasis on laboratory and field experience. Cary Casey, a USD biology major who has studied the populations of three endan– gered bird species in coastal San Diego County, recently was honored by USA Today in its 1993 "All-USA Academic Team" selections. Part of the work being done by USD biology undergraduates was featured in the Winter 1993 issue of USD Magazine .

COMMENCEMENT '93 Marc Christopher Shulga (B.B.A. '93) and his family were among the thou– sands of celebrants on hand as USD awarded a record number of degrees dur– ing commencement ceremonies May 22 and 23. The 1993 commencement speakers were: Lt. Gen. Robert John– ston, USMC (undergraduate); civil rights attorney Morris Dees (law); and Rehtaugh Graves Dumas, dean of the University of Michigan School of Nurs– ing (graduate).

GUEST OF HONOR University of San Diego President Author E. Hughes was honored with an honorary doctorate at the spring com– mencement ceremonies at Dominican College of San Rafael, Calif.

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