As part of WPI's senior leadership team and reporting directly to WPI
President and CEO Dennis D.D.7-acre parcel is also available for
housing."
The Indiana Life Sciences Forum will take place at the Westin,
Indianapolis, on Thursday, November 3, 2005.

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Her years of experience in executive-level management also
include senior finance positions at GTE Corporation and PepsiCo, Inc. Hurd
has had substantial board involvement in all positions and currently serves on
the boards of directors of Data Translation, Inc.
She has published numerous journal articles in entrepreneurship and economics,
and her work has been presented at many national and international
conferences, such as the American Economic Association Meeting, the Academy of
Management Meeting, and the Global Entrepreneurship Research Conference.
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the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national
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Gateway Park is a joint
redevelopment project of WPI and the Worcester Business Development
Corporation transforming a former Worcester brownfield into a mixed-use, life
sciences-based campus.

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, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(WPI) announced today that D'Anne Hurd, a business development and legal
affairs executive, has joined the university as vice president for business
development at Gateway Park and general counsel.
Prior to joining WPI, Hurd served as chief financial officer and general
counsel for several technology companies, including NMS Communications,
STARBAK Communications , Inc., NaviPath, Inc. At build-out, the development will feature between 500,000 and one
million square feet of mixed-use space.5 billion, it is the funding
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Berkey, Hurd will be responsible for driving the
advancement of the Gateway Park project by attracting businesses, tenants, and
partners to the site. and
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Hurd comes to WPI with more than 30 years of senior finance, legal, and
business development experience for a wide variety of biotechnology, life
sciences, medical, and technology companies with significant experience in
strategic planning, joint ventures, and strategic alliances., and SmartRoute
Systems, Inc.

About Gateway Park
Gateway Park is an 11-acre, master-planned redevelopment of a former
Worcester brownfield into a mixed-use, life sciences-based campus.

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joint development of WPI and the Worcester Business Development Corporation. Students
also have the opportunity to make a difference in communities and
organizations around the world through the university's innovative Global
Perspectives program, at more than 20 project centers throughout North America
and Central America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe. Minniti is a lead researcher on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
(GEM) project and is a member of the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium. In many fields such as
mathematics, computer science and the social sciences , NSF is the major source
of federal backing.

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from the Duke University School of Law with an
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Moot Court Competition.
A grant awarded to Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), where Minniti's
co-author Moren Levesque is on faculty, allows them to host one scholar per
year as a NSF Distinguished Fellow. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson
College. The forum will provide key information on what
life science venture capitalists and capital markets are looking for as well
as how companies can develop creative partnering strategies.

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WPI Appoints D'Anne Hurd Vice President for Business Development at Gateway Park and General Counsel

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The NSF application requires ongoing
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana is rapidly establishing
itself as a hotbed for life sciences development.

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Construction of the first building, the four-story, 124,600 square -foot WPI
Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, is well under way and is scheduled to
be completed early next year.

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information, visit http://www. Many of the reasons for this
growth will be featured at The Indiana Life Sciences Forum, which is designed
to review the state of the industry and profile the opportunities in the
current climate of the capital markets.
"Indiana is building a critical mass of research capacity and intellectual
property, from both its world-class universities and corporate R+D strength,"
said Burrill.

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She will also act as the university's on-campus counsel
for legal matters.
Hurd earned a B.

Babson's Minniti Receives NSF Fellowship for Entrepreneurship

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A., Babson College economics and
entrepreneurship professor Maria Minniti has been named a Distinguished Fellow
of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work on entrepreneurship and
population dynamics. Steven
Burrill, CEO, Burrill + Company, one of the presenters and whose firm is the
event organizer.
For more information on the Indiana Life Sciences Forum and to register
please visit: http://www.burrillandco .

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"The region's life sciences initiatives have served to bring key partners
together and encourage business expansion and formation," said G.

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The development's master plan calls for three
additional pad-ready sites to be developed to support buildings of 80,000,
100,000, and 160,000 square feet.
WPI's world-class faculty work with students in a number of cutting-edge
research areas, leading to breakthroughs and innovations in such fields as
biotechnology, fuel cells, information security, and nanotechnology.babson. "However, the key is to ensure that this leading research has
the business and venture capital resources to build the successful life
sciences companies of tomorrow.