Notes from the Chair
David Polly is away this year in Finland on a much-deserved research leave at the University of Helsinki. David has been skillfully directing our department through six rather tumultuous years involving a major building renovation and move, the pandemic, and significant restructuring on campus with the arrival of a new President and Provost. We hope he returns in July 2025 refreshed and ready to take on his final two years as Chair. In the meantime, I am trying to hold things together as the Acting Chair. Campus seems to have quieted relative to the previous academic year with the dramatic events you may have read about in David’s previous departmental newsletter and in the news. But as you will see in this newsletter, the EAS department has been far from quiet!
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