For Immediate Release Contact: Barbara K. Laskin
December 10, 2003 Doug Stone
(651) 696-6203

Senior Consultant for Marketing Research Firm Named to Macalester's Board

St. Paul, Minn. - Paul A. Anderson, Ph.D., a San Francisco-based senior consultant with Yarnell Inc., has been named to the Board of Trustees at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. Yarnell, Inc. is a marketing research and consulting firm that specializes in qualitative marketing research for information technology companies

Prior to joining Yarnell Inc. in 1988, Anderson served on the faculties of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pa., as a visiting instructor and assistant professor of political science, and at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., as an associate professor of political science. He is the author of 17 publications dealing with decision-making processes at the individual and organizational levels and was the recipient of a research grant from the National Science Foundation.

Anderson holds a Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University and a B.A. with special departmental honors from Macalester College. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Sigma Alpha at Macalester College and his dissertation won the Jacobina Aman Dissertation Award in international relations awarded by the department of political science at Ohio State University.

Anderson has chaired Macalester's Information Services Advisory Board since 1999. He recently hosted a major donor event in San Francisco and was a leadership donor to the Touch the Future Campaign.

Macalester College is a private liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,851 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, diversity and service to society.

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