November signs

The leaves are now nearly off the trees (helped by a couple of rain
storms). The average temperatures are headed downwards and we drive home
in the dark–these are the signs of November at the Krasnow Institute.

In the meantime, the new building is going to be connected to the old
Krasnow facility this week with the demolition of a stair-tower–and
we’re very nearly “closed in” with the construction ready to continue
inside through the winter with move-in now scheduled for April.

In the next weeks there will be some major announcements concerning both
direct hires and the three open searches for new Krasnow PI’s to fill
our new space. I’m extremely excited with the quality of the science
that we’re looking at–the Institute will be qualitatively larger next
Fall, and not only in terms of space!

In the meantime, the functional stimuli apparatus is being installed in
the Krasnow 3T magnet and we’re working on agreements to secure combined
(i.e. fused) EEG, fMRI capabilities for our center.

Finally, we note that Rob Axtell will be taking over as acting-director
of Krasnow’s Center for Social Complexity during the remainder of
Claudio Cioffi’s year at the State Department as a Jefferson Fellow.

So stay tuned! There’s a lot going on.

Jim