UT regents firm up appointment of chancellor (Austin American-Statesman) Francisco Cigarroa, a transplant surgeon and president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, became the first Hispanic to head a major public university system in the United States with his confirmation Friday as UT System chancellor by the Board of Regents.

Green Star Announces Special Shareholder's Meeting (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) SALT LAKE CITY----Green Star Products, Inc., , today announced that it will be holding a Special Shareholder's Meeting on January 31, 2009, at 10 AM at the Little American Hotel in Salt Lake City (500 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, http://www.littleamerica.com, 453-9450).