– William Yue successfully defended his honors thesis
– Ana Beth successfully defended her thesis proposal
– Katie had a great first year meeting
– Kao made a fuss about being nervous and gave a great talk without even blinking
– Katie saw her undergraduate work published (yay, first paper!)
– Jackie saw her undergraduate work appear in print (hmm, we are not superstitious but still)
– Ana Beth made a wonderful honey cake for Isabel’s birthday
– APA approved a proposal that makes Jenn the new editor of “APA PeePs” (or at least that’s what I am calling her)
– Magen and Isabel are about to crush David in a looooong chess game
– Kao and David wrote their first grant proposal on Isabel’s dry-erase board
– Rankin figured out yet again how to make BV do the impossible

Jonathan Folstein, who did his post doc at Vandy with Isabel and Tom Palmeri, just accepted an assistant professor position at Florida State University!