Douglas Dick was recently named a new...

Douglas Dick was recently named a new partner at the international

law firm of Dechert LLP. Dick practices in the financial services

group, which is in the firm’s Newport Beach office ... Navy

Firefighter Thomas A. Dickinson, son of Norma Montana of Wooster,

Ohio and Dan A. Dickinson of Newport Beach, welcomed Maj. Gen. Graham

Lamb aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise in the Arabian Gulf

... Bradley Lewis Lear of Newport Beach graduated with a bachelor’s

in industrial technology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ... Richard

Lathrop, information and computer science professor, and Wesley

Hatfield, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics in the

college of medicine at UC Irvine, received a $1.5-million grant to

advance the use of computational methods for building complex genomic

DNA sequences ... Bobbie Daniel of Balboa Island was promoted to

senior branch office administrator at the Balboa Island branch of the

financial services firm of Edward Jones.