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Tom Ricketts, whose Memphis-based Master Hospitality owns the Tupelo hotel, said he intends to add 40 two-bed rooms and eight two-room suites to the hotel in the Fairpark District. He said that if he can get plans from the architect within 90 days, construction will start in early fall and he hopes to unveil the new rooms in summer 2008. The expansion will be built on land west of the 110-room hotel, between the Hilton Garden Inn and the Fairpark at Main building that will house restaurants Park Heights and The Grill and up to eight other tenants.
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Tom Ricketts launched Chicago-based investment bank Incapital in 2001 to bring original-issue corporate bonds—InterNotes—to retail investors. InterNotes are issued at par and in denominations of $1,000, are rated A or higher, and are offered weekly. To date, Incapital has signed up 13 issuers, and is seeing record sales of its retail bonds—Inflation Protected InterNotes(IPIs)—and structured bonds called e-Linx. To help independent advisors brush up on the ins and outs of bonds, Incapital recently launched www.bondschool.com.
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Tom Ricketts was profiled in BusinessWeek for pioneering a new product for individual investors - investment-grade corporate bonds. He will be honored by the GSB in October when he receives the Distinguished Young Alumni award. The award is given in recognition of such factors as extraordinary career success since graduation, outstanding leadership by peers and colleagues, and influence in the business community to support the school and current students.
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Ricketts and Dr. Pam Silberman will lead the UNC-CH team. Ricketts directs rural health research and policy programs at the Sheps Center. Silberman is an adjunct faculty member in the department of health policy and administration and associate director for policy analysis at the Sheps Center. Both have prior legislative experience. Ricketts served as the research director for the N.C. Health Planning Commission; Silberman was its deputy director. Also, Silberman, an attorney, was a lobbyist for the N.C. Legal Services Resource Center and served on five legislative study commissions.
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Tom Ricketts joined the Department in Fall 2005 as Professor. He previously held faculty appointments at Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. His research interests focus on the development of Analytic Philosophy, especially Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Quine.
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On December 15th, Dr. Tom Ricketts gave a presentation on physician supply to the North Carolina House Select Subcommittee on the Health Workforce. With the exception of primary care physicians, the supply of physicians throughout the United States, including in North Carolina, is growing slower than population growth, and national and state estimates project an emerging shortage of doctors. Demographic characteristics, turnover rates, and uneven geographic distribution were ... highlighted. Click here for the Powerpoint presentation.
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