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The Smiling Heretic

Reg Kelly hopes the multidisciplinary institute he leads will help find new ways to improve public health and California's economy. But not everyone is a fan of his efforts to boost collaboration between academia and industry.


Reg Kelly has an infectious smile that seems to be part childlike wonder and part wise guy. The fun, though, is in listening to Kelly talk. His words come in enthusiastic bursts, coated in a Scottish accent that makes everything he says seem just a tad more colorful. And what he says conveys just enough distaste for authority to give him what amounts to, in the bureaucratic world of academia, a bad-boy edge.

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