Be alerted that the Graduate College is looking for some nominations for Research Excellence and Teaching Excellence Awards for graduate students. Nominations are due early in April, so get your nominations in. The policy is that these two state universities should get together in joint efforts to enhance university contributions to the state. Anyway, Ted and some others are on their way to Iowa City and University of Iowa to promote such collaborative activity. The classification lid has been lifted now so that we can report that Profs Jerry Vogel and Rollie Jenison have both declared retirement at some time within the next few months.
Dates are still to be determined, more or less.
The Virtual Reality pavilion that is growing up in the Atrium of Howe Hall is quite a thing. It's being built strong enough to withstand an Iowa tornado and is sufficiently unique in shape that it should probably be something of an icon for Howe Hall in the coming years. Things have started to begin to commence to start to get ready for the next phase of the ETRC, Engineering Teaching and Research Complex, the companion to Howe Hall, Hoover Hall . The fence has gone up to cordon off Exhibit Hall, the Engineering Research Institute building, and Engineering Annex. A fix for one of the deficiencies of Howe Hall has gone into effect down on the lower level.