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  James Baker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930), American politician and diplomat, was Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagan's first administration, United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 in the second Reagan administration, and Secretary of State in the administration of President George H. Bush.
In 1993, Baker became the founding chair of the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Baker served as chief legal advisor for George W. Bush during the 2000 election campaign and oversaw the Florida recount.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Baker   (918 words)

  
 Baker Institute celebrates golden anniversary - November 15, 2000
DEAN J. Cornell University's James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health reflected on a half century of innovations with its 50th anniversary celebration Oct 7-9, held in conjunction with the university's fall symposium.
Baker, the institute's architect and first director, died in 1972, but much has been built on his foundation.
Institute researchers Dr. Gustavo Aguirre and Dr. Gregory M. Acland advanced the knowledge of canine genetics when they isolated the gene that shows the carrier for progressive retinal atrophy in dogs, and developed a practical test for it.
www.avma.org /onlnews/javma/nov00/s111500g.asp   (804 words)

  
 Researchers Construct Genetic Map For Dogs
In 1951 the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health established the first laboratory in the world dedicated solely to addressing the health needs of dogs through basic and applied research.
The Institute is renowned for its contributions to the control of canine infectious diseases through the development of vaccines against canine distemper, infectious hepatitis, parvovirus, and other diseases.
The Institute is part of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, established in 1894; the mission of the College is to advance animal and human health through education, research, and public service.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1997-12/CUNS-RCGM-151297.php   (769 words)

  
 Baker Institute - About the Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The Baker Institute is strictly non-partisan and dedicated to the highest standards of intellectual excellence and integrity with the goal of helping bridge the gap between the theory and practice of public policy by drawing together experts from academia, government, the media, business, and non-governmental organizations.
The Institute is located on the Rice campus in James A. Baker III Hall, home not only to the Baker Institute, but also the School of Social Science that includes the departments of Economics and Political Science.
The Baker Institute's founding Director, the Honorable Edward P. Djerejian, is a career diplomat and former American Ambassador to Israel and Syria and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
bakerinstitute.org /BakerIns   (354 words)

  
 James Baker's Double Life : Houston Indymedia
Chris Ullman, vice president and spokesperson for Carlyle, said that "neither the Carlyle Group nor James Baker wrote, edited or authorized this proposal to the Kuwait government." But he acknowledged that Carlyle knew a proposal was being made to the government of Kuwait and that Carlyle stood to land a $1 billion investment.
Baker is far too tangled in a matrix of lucrative private business relationships that leave him looking like a potentially interested party in any debt-restructuring formula," stated the editorial.
Baker occupies a complicated place in the consortium's January proposal--he is both problem and solution, stick and carrot.
houston.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=34091   (4703 words)

  
 Rice University: James Baker Institute protest: the Caspian Cafe : Houston Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Rice University: James Baker Institute protest: the Caspian Cafe : Houston Indymedia
Rice University: James Baker Institute protest: the Caspian Cafe
Baker Institute Action 4/9/03 Wednesday Brunch, The Caspian CafÈ The participants in this demonstration advocate legal public action to insist on a clear statement by James Baker and Ambassador Djerejian against U.S. wars in the gulf region.
houston.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=10831   (116 words)

  
 Cornell News: Baker anniversary symposium
Established in 1950 as the Veterinary Virus Research Institute and renamed for the founding director after Dr. Baker's death in 1975, the institute has as its mission to improve the health of animals through basic and applied research.
Baker Institute faculty-scientists with expertise in infectious diseases and immunology study viral, bacterial and parasitic agents; the mechanisms of disease transmission and spread; pathogenesis; and the host-defense responses of the immune system.
Medical genetics specialists at Baker Institute develop practical tests for detecting carriers of defective genes, strategies for control of genetic diseases and methods for gene therapy.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Sept00/Baker_50thSymp.hrs.html   (444 words)

  
 Welcome to the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
TAX POLICY: Institute fellow John Diamond co-authors a Summary of the Dynamic Analysis of the Tax Reform Options Prepared for the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform.
BAKER INSTITUTE SUPPORTS IRAQ STUDY GROUP: The Baker Institute is one of several think tanks supporting the Iraq Study Group—a new, bipartisan effort to make an independent assessment of the current and future situation in Iraq.
James A. Baker, III, the 61st Secretary of State and honorary chair of the Baker Institute, and former Congressman Lee H. Hamilton, director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, will co-chair the group, which was formed at the request of Congress and was announced March 15 in Washington, D.C
bakerinstitute.org   (294 words)

  
 WJHW - The Baker Institute
The James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy is located on the Campus of Rice University.
The Institute was established with the goal of conducting scholarly research and advising policy-makers in the formulation and implementation of public policy.
In addition to office and classroom space, the institute building features an international conference area, permitting simultaneous interpretation and satellite link-up to other locations in the U.S. and abroad.
www.wjhw.com /baker.html   (177 words)

  
 Iraq Study Group: Members: United States Institute of Peace
It is led by co-chairs James A. Baker, III, the nation’s 61st Secretary of State and Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, and Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Baker served as the 67th Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan.
He is Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and serves on the board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
www.usip.org /isg/members.html   (3166 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: James Baker quietly lobbies India
Western diplomatic sources confirmed that during the closely-guarded visit, Baker – who cobbled together the global alliance against Saddam Hussein in the 1991 Gulf War – met senior officials of the prime minister's office and the external affairs and petroleum ministries.
Baker was on a private visit and stayed with U.S. Ambassador Robert Blackwill at Roosevelt House, Gordon K. Duguid, information officer at the U.S. Embassy, said in an interview.
It was not immediately known whether Baker met Indian premier Atal Behari Vajpayee before the prime minister left for his visit of Singapore and Cambodia.
www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27210   (717 words)

  
 Guide to the Rice University James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy records, 1993-2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Rupp responded favorably to Stoll's memo and thus the Baker Institute was born.
In this speech, entitled "Ideas Into Action", in which he charged the Baker Institute to "draw together statesmen, scholars and students...and...build a bridge between the world of ideas and the world of action..." These founding words were later used as the building stones for the external architecture of the building.
Between 1993 and 1994, the Baker Institute was coordinated by John Rogers, fomer undersecretary for management at the Department of State.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/ricewrc/00237/00237-P.html   (1341 words)

  
 mhp: Baker, James A. III
mhp: Baker, James A. The Modern History Project
^ James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy (Director of, 1993 to present)
James Baker -- James A. Baker -- James A. Baker III
www.modernhistoryproject.org /mhp/EntityDisplay.php?Entity=BakerJA3   (215 words)

  
 mhp: James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy
James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy USA, Political Org
^ James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy (1993 to present)
^ Baker, James A. (Director of, 1993 to present)
www.modernhistoryproject.org /mhp/EntityDisplay.php?Entity=BakerInst   (68 words)

  
 HSFA - The Houston Society of Financial Analysts
Joe Barnes has been a research fellow at the institute since 1995 with a focus on international economics.
He has prepared institute monographs on energy security issues related to China, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia, as well as one on domestic tax reform.
Before joining the institute, Barnes was an Associate with the Carlyle Group, a Washington-based private investment company.
www.hsfa.org /cde.cfm?event=44428   (399 words)

  
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The hip dysplasia symposium is one in a series of scientific conferences presented by the Baker Institute for veterinary and biomedical researchers, veterinary practitioners and animal breeders.
A leader in canine studies for almost 50 years, the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health aims to improve the health of animals through basic and applied research.
www.cyberpathway.com /bhs/mar03.htm   (1011 words)

  
 Infection and Pathobiology
Explores the evolution and molecular basis for plant pathogenicity in Gram-positive bacteria, with a focus on horizontal transfer and functional analysis of a pathogenicity island among Streptomyces species that cause economically important diseases of root and tuber crops.
Genetic and genomics approaches are used to investigate the molecular basis of the symbiotic associations formed by plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Pathogenesis of woodchuck hepatitis virus in woodchucks as a model for chronic infection with the hepatitis B virus in humans, with a focus on innate and adaptive cell-mediated immunology, vaccinology, immunotherapy, and antiviral therapy with third generation nucleoside analogs.
www.vet.cornell.edu /public/InfectionAndPathobiology   (1710 words)

  
 Sunday Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Baker who delivered the recommendations to Cheney, the former chief executive of Texas oil firm Halliburton, was advised by Kenneth Lay, the disgraced former chief executive of Enron, the US energy giant which went bankrupt after carrying out massive accountancy fraud.
The other advisers to Baker were: Luis Giusti, a Shell non-executive director; John Manzoni, regional president of BP and David O'Reilly, chief executive of ChevronTexaco.
The Baker report highlights massive shortages in world oil supplies which now leave the US facing 'unprecedented energy price volatility' and has led to recurring electricity fl-outs in areas such as California.
www.sundayherald.com /print28285   (509 words)

  
 Canine Genome mapping, Veterinary Medicine
Gu et al at the James Baker Institute, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca have studied the role APOH gene as a positional candidate for prcd (progressive rod cone degeneration).
TBreen et al at the Institute of Veterinary Medicine, University of Gottingen, Germany have studied the genomic sequence from canine chromosome 20q15.1--> q15.2.
Miller et al at the Feinstone Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Memphis have found out through, identified using FISH clones from a canine genomic library that indicate that the acidic keratin gene cluster is situated on CFA9 and the basic keratin gene cluster is located on CFA27.
www.petspourri.com:8080 /trends21.htm   (1423 words)

  
 Baker Institute of Animal Health
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Baker Institute of Animal Health
The Baker Institute for Animal Health is one of the oldest research centers dedicated to the study of veterinary infectious diseases, immunology, genetics, and reproduction.
©2006 Cornell University and Baker Institute for Animal Health
bakerinstitute.vet.cornell.edu   (45 words)

  
 Baker Institute : Faculty : Judy Appleton : CV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Baker Institute : Faculty : Judy Appleton : CV Skip to main content
Associate Professor of Immunology, James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1999-present
Professor of Immunology, James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Honors and Awards:
bakerinstitute.vet.cornell.edu /faculty/faculty-appleton-cv.html   (146 words)

  
 Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences
This Regentially chartered research institute brings together a larger group of interdisciplinary researchers to apply the techniques and knowledge from the physical sciences to biological and medical research.
To harness nanoscale science and engineering for biological and medical applications, as well as to use bio-inspired nanostructures to develop new forms of materials, sensors and electronics.
On Thursday, April 13, 1 PM, James E. Crowe, Jr., MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Ingram Professor Cancer Research, Director, Vanderbilt Program in Vaccine Sciences and Vanderbilt Alliance for Nanomedicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center will speak on: "Cell biology and immunology of respiratory syncytial virus infection at the nanoscale." (pdf format, 82.2kb)
nano.med.umich.edu   (245 words)

  
 Israpundit: IS JAMES BAKER III RUNNING PRESIDENT BUSH?
James Baker II is well known for his vulgar slur and advisory to President George Herbert Walker Bush: "F...
It was recently exposed that the "Road Map" concept came out of James Baker's Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and more recently a paper detailing the Baker "Road Map" written at the Rice Institute was handed to Condoleezza Rice before she left for Israel.
Sharon became a plaything, their "buba" (doll) in the hands of the Bush dynasty and the "Shadow Government" of the James Baker Club.
www.israpundit.com /archives/2005/02/is_james_baker.php   (2609 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Researchers Report Construction Of Genetic Map For Dogs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
In 1951 the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health established thefirst laboratory in the world dedicated solely to addressing the healthneeds of dogs through basic and applied research.
The Institute is renownedfor its contributions to the control of canine infectious diseases throughthe development of vaccines against canine distemper, infectious hepatitis,parvovirus, and other diseases.
The Institute is part of the College ofVeterinary Medicine at Cornell University, established in 1894; the missionof the College is to advance animal and human health through education,research, and public service.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/1997/12/971216054521.htm   (1987 words)

  
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James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, New York, 14853-6401, USA.
James A. Baker Institute, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-6401, USA.
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Sciences and The Feinstone Institute of Molecular Biology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152, USA.
www.petspourri.com:8080 /trends21ref.htm   (472 words)

  
 Universität Leipzig > BBZ > Dr. Reinhard K. Straubinger
Research Associate II and head of the Hadley C. Stephenson Laboratory for the Study of Canine Diseases at the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Graduate Research Assistant at the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Research fellow at the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
www.uni-leipzig.de /~straub   (890 words)

  
 Latest SNB info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The work was done in the laboratory of Dr. Gustavo Aguirre, VMD, PhD, the Caspary Professor of Ophthalmology at the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Those and further studies at the Institute confirmed that the American disease, csnb, and the Swedish disease, retinal dystrophy, represent the same disorder in briards.
Furthermore, since some of the dogs tested were apparently unrelated, the discovery of a common mutation in lines originating in different countries suggests a founder effect causing the propagation of a common defect.
www.briardworld.com /health/snb.html   (536 words)

  
 CBSU: Projects and Collaborations
Gus Aguirre's group at the Center for Canine Genetics and Reproduction (James Baker Institute, Cornell University)
James MacLeod (James A. Baker Institute, Cornell University)
Nancy Burton-Wurster (James A. Baker Institute, Cornell University)
cbsu.tc.cornell.edu /projects.htm   (299 words)

  
 Collie Health Foundation PRA Grants
Dr. Aquirre, James Baker Institute (Cornell) • PRA $18,460.00
Dr. Aguirre, James Baker Institute (Cornell) • PRA $19,197.00
Gregory Acland– Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University • Identification of the Mutation Causing Collie PRA $23, 000
www.colliehealth.org /grants.html   (971 words)

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