Good News

• Promotions
  • Yuwei Zhu to Senior Associate in Biostatistics

People

• Business-administrative update - Stephania
  • Faculty administrative services and benefits
  • New coffee maker and healthy snack choices
  • Office moves - John Bock

Quality

• Faculty rounding process and update

Growth & Finance

• Faculty recruitment
  • Bob Johnson
  • Brett Evans
  • Shyamal Peddada

Innovation

• Faculty retreat
  • Marketing plan
    • Creating a small committee
    • Internal and external exposure
  • Collaborations
    • Increase the quality and quantity of grant projects
    • Project filtering and when to say "no"

Department Updates

• useR! update and request for volunteers
• BCC
• Graduate program
• CQS