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February 10, 2010

Business briefcase

People

Natalie Cassidy of Danvers, a registered nurse and team leader at Beverly Hospital, recently received the organization's Star of Excellence award.

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Jeffrey Keller and Janice Kostopoulos were named top agents of the year for the Salem office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, having achieved the highest number of listings and sales for 2009.

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Joyce Shaw, assistant professor of biology at Endicott College, will join a national collaborative of scholars, researchers and scientists who have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore ways to assess the role of technology within undergraduate biology education.

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Alexander Falk of Marblehead, co-founder and CEO of Altova Inc., a software company with offices in Beverly and Vienna, Austria, recently joined the Marblehead Rotary Club.

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Joan Berg and Gretchen Berg, both of Wenham, recently joined J. Barrett & Co., a real estate firm, in its Beverly office.

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Christopher Hudson, a professor of social work at Salem State College, published research in the December 2009 issue of International Journal of Methods of Psychiatric Research showing that mental illness is four times more likely to occur in the poorest towns.

New businesses

Ken's Kickin' Chicken Pot Pies recently opened at Rothwell Custom Catering's catering production facility at 7 Franklin St. in Salem.

Giving

Richard Gavegnano, chairman and CEO of East Boston Savings Bank, recently pledged a $2,500 contribution from the bank to the American Red Cross for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

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Employees at UBS in Peabody recently collected $1,020 for the therapeutic programs at Windrush Farm by wearing blue jeans on a Friday. Sue Fix of UBS, whose daughter Laurie has been riding at Windrush Farm for two years, nominated Windrush Farm as UBS' January charity.

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