Good News

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• New employees: Meredith Blevins, Biostatistician II; Regina Smith, Administrative Assistant III; Renee Torres, Biostatistician I
• Promotions: Dan Byrne, Mario Davidson, Thomas Dupont, Nate Mercaldo, Pingsheng Wu
• Recruitment update and upcoming JSM meeting
• Recognition and Reward recipients
• Vanderbilt Gives Back through Red Cross Blood Drive, Organ Donor and Bone Marrow Registration
• Community Giving campaign
• WE MADE THE PLAYOFFS! Our last regularly scheduled department softball game is tonight at 6:00pm. Please come out and support our team and a special thanks to Coach Beck! NOTE: Final team picture to be taken at this game. Location: Rob Roy Purdy Intramural Athletics Field between 25th Avenue and the Student Recreation Center. It's that big field with four dirt spots at each corner. The Playoff information will be announced next Monday.

• What is Statistics? Frank Harrell PhD

• dbc reports (projects and consulting)
• Effort reporting and project management
• Exempt Staff leave utilization
• Internal Audit follow up
• Research presentation, Bill Dupont PhD
• CQI
• Strong recommendation on dress code
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• Calendar management; please use web calendar

• Grant awards

• FY09 year-end close and FY10 Budget
• Department presentation (following professional travel)
• Routine use of Vanderbilt resources for personal use

• Seminars (last seminar will be July 29 and series will resume on September 9)
• If you have been promoted recently, please update wiki
• Upcoming telecommunications survey

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