Well, another academic year is coming to a close this weekend with George Mason’s commencement exercises. This Saturday, 6803 students will be receiving degrees at Mason’s Patriot Center. The commencement speaker will be Scott Cowen, President of Tulane University.
For Krasnow, this has been a very active year: both in construction, the acquisition of our 3T MRI and changes among our faculty. I am really looking forward to welcoming Rob Axtell, Nathalia Peixoto and Jim Thompson as new principal investigators at the Institute with the commencement of the Fall term. And over the summer, I’ll be asking each of them to serve as guest bloggers at some point so as to describe their research foci. And we will have hired an MR Technician in the next couple of weeks–this individual will play the key role in making things work smoothly at our brain imaging center. I’d also like to welcome our new receptionist, Joey Carls.
Outside my office window today, the earthmoving equipment is filling the air with the sounds of diesel engines–we’re now hard at work on creating the extra 12,500 square feet of lab space that will enable Krasnow to continue its rapid expansion over the next five year period.
Tomorrow I leave for about a week in Scotland. We’ll give the blog a rest over that period and pick up where we left off when I return.
Jim
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