Announcements
for Biology Faculty Meeting, 26 October 2017

• COS Dean-Search Committee has formed; Tom Irving and Nick Miller are members. The significance of this search has possibly increased now that Dean Betts has been named as Interim Provost, and Vice-Dean Xiaofan Li has been named as Interim Dean for most of 2018.
• The spring schedule is nearly complete, apart from the uncertainties about the instructors for a few courses and a final check that the first-year and second-year schedules involve no major time-conflicts. Tanya and Al Glodowski were able to resolve one significant conflict on Wednesday.
• The Interim Chair still hasn't heard from a few of you about the Open House on 29 October.
• The Senior Lecturer Hire was endorsed within the department and the Dean has reconfirmed his approval of it, so Andy has directed HR to post the ad, and they have done so.