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Thanks to everyone who sent notes last week. I recognize the information came as a surprise. It is a surprise to me, too, though in a much different way.

Dean Powers writes an open letter to CAHNRS and CAHNRS supporters and partners about resigning from WSU.

Dean Powers joins a webinar that focuses on strategies for and barriers to widespread use of transdisciplinary approaches to solving complex problems

Congratulations to Zena Edwards and colleagues from the Murrow College of Communication and the College of Education for their article’s publication in the international journal Vaccines.

Congratulations to the team that spent countless hours pulling together the Smart Orchard Field Day last week.

I sampled some freshly picked raspberries, blackberries, and marionberries over the weekend. On the east side of the state, it is hay harvest time. We are certainly in the best part of summer!

We are grateful to congressman Dan Newhouse and his staff for braving the heat to spend quality time with us at the Roza farm near IAREC on Tuesday.

Work is back in full force. I did as little work as I could get away with last week while spending time in Alaska with family.

Scot Hulbert, Nancy Deringer, Leslie Edgar, and I are all in Alaska through Thursday at a summer meeting with our dean and associate dean peers in the Western U.S.

We had good visits on the Hill last week. I greatly appreciate our partners who spent two days with us as we caught up with our legislators.