December 01, 2005
Holiday Message from the Dean
I am writing these words on Thanksgiving weekend, during the first winter storm watch of the season. To some of you, the weather of your alma mater (the lake-effect snowfalls, the storms that sweep down from Canada) may be only a memory. Yet many others of you are still Ohioans or midwesterners, sharing the same climate, and wondering how the fall—not to mention the brilliant Indian summer— could have vanished so quickly.
This term has been an exciting and productive one for the College. An entire entering class—almost 1,150 students—enrolled in the SAGES program, and the new SAGES Café in Crawford Hall has opened for business. Nineteen new faculty members have joined Arts and Sciences, three of them senior scholars who have assumed duties as chairs of their departments. Students have already declared their interest in the new public health studies major and the emerging undergraduate and graduate programs in cognitive science. The search for the first Inamori Professor of Ethics and founding director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence is well under way. And this is only a sampling of the initiatives and achievements for which Fall 2005 will be remembered.
For updates about our current and future projects, including a collaboration between the cognitive science department and Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art, I invite you to explore this online newsletter. I also welcome this opportunity to thank you all, alumni and friends, for your generous support of our endeavors. Please accept my best wishes for the holidays and the new year.
Mark Turner
Institute Professor and Dean