Although we hate to see her depart after so many years of dedicated service to MIC, we congratulate her on a new job with considerably greater responsibilities, which will enable her to make use of her own graduate training in Higher Education Administration. Obviously, the Department will need to consider mechanisms by which we can attempt to replace JoEllyn's considerable responsibilities within MIC as soon as possible. The Department will also soon be saying good-bye to Research Professor, Lyman Crittenden , who will be leaving this summer for the Madison, WI area. Despite the April 30 pre-proposal deadline , we only just received notice of the request from the Great Lakes Regional Biomass Energy Program. The focus is practical applications of developing biomass energy resources.
Information is posted for anyone interested.
Thanks to Michael Bagdasarian for his donation of the new journal Genes to Cells to the Microbiology Reading Room. Many faculty have been donating various journals to the Reading Room for which we are very grateful. New donations are always appreciated. Martha Mulks recently received the College of Human Medicine Block II Instructor of the Year Award as elected by the CHM students. Linda Mansfield won the analogous Year 2 Teaching Award from the students of the College of Veterinary Medicine.