DEAN’S NOTE

Welcome back, everyone, to Spring Semester 2025! I wanted to send a few words of reminder about this newsletter. This is a place to share information about faculty, staff, and students in the College of Letters and Science. You can submit items for the newsletter by emailing me and using the word “newsletter” in the subject line. If you would like to get the word out about an upcoming event, share good news about students and alumni, or promote your latest publication or award, please send them my way! I like to include links and photos where possible. I include news about research at the point of publication rather than acceptance so that I can include a link. This newsletter goes out to all COLS employees as well as the university’s communications team, and you can find recent newsletters here. I’ve included all the headers below so that you get a sense of the different categories of newsletter items. Please let me know if you have any questions.

IN THE NEWS

Career Services needs help with the Career Fair! If you have some time on Monday, February 17 between 10:00am – 3:30pm, please sign up here.

DEPARTMENT UPDATES

• Share items about your departments and programs here.

FACULTY RESEARCH

• Jason Belnap (Mathematics) was invited to give a presentation (coauthored with Amy Parrott) entitled “Examining the Subtleties of our Mathematical Practices to Better Our Assessments” during a research session at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, an annual international conference on mathematics.

STUDENT NEWS

• Include items about current and past students here. Pictures are especially welcome for this section!

UPCOMING EVENTS

• The African American Studies program has a full slate of activities planned for Black History Month. You can find the full schedule here.