[QSB-grads] Welcome to new QSB Chair Miriam Barlow!

[Miriam Barlow]

Thank you for your service Dave!  You did a great job!

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:36 AM, David Ardell <dardell at ucmerced.edu> wrote:

> Dear QSB Grads and Postdocs,
>
> I hope you’ve all had wonderful holidays. I am writing to tell you that my
> term as QSB Chair ended last semester as according to the 3-year Chair term
> limit in our QSB Bylaws, and to ask your help in welcoming Prof. Miriam
> Barlow as our new QSB Chair. Miriam is an excellent choice for Chair as her
> own research reflects the diversity and interdisciplinarity of science and
> engineering in QSB well. Furthermore I am confident that Miriam cares as
> much about graduate student welfare, irrespective of field, as I have, and
> I believe that she will strengthen our program with her own innovative
> ideas and leadership.  So whether you know Miriam or not please do join me
> in welcoming her as our new Chair!
>
> I have very much enjoyed being your Chair and serving you in your degree
> progress over the last four application seasons. During that period,
> applications to QSB more than doubled from 39 to 89 applications per year,
> and the number of entering QSB students nearly doubled from 12 to last
> year’s 22, which was the best in the program’s history ever. To put this
> data in another perspective, QSB entering students made up almost half of
> all entering graduate students in SNS graduate programs.  As you can see,
> it is you the students who help define our metrics of success. You
> literally vote with your feet to come here. With that in mind, I cannot
> thank you ever enough for your confidence in QSB, UC Merced and our faculty.
>
> Again, please help me welcome Miriam to her new role as QSB Chair. I
> encourage you to contact her whenever you have questions that somehow
> extend beyond your mentors, supervisors and committee, and of course for
> all duties that require action by the Chair. If ever I may be of service,
> please don’t hesitate to drop me a line.
>
> Best wishes in your research!
>
> Sincerely,
> Dave Ardell
>
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> David H. Ardell
> Associate Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
> University of California, Merced, CA 95343
> office:SE1 228 ; office phone: 2092282953 ; web: http://davidardell.org
> Please contact me by email at dardell at ucmerced.edu
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Miriam Barlow
Associate Professor
University of California, Merced

209.228.4174
miriam.barlow at gmail.com
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