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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you to everyone who helped in planning, set-up, cooking, clean-up, purchasing and approval etc. for the annual department picnic. Special thanks to Kent Ludwig and his crew of grillers. The smell of grilled meat in the PRB means
spring might just really be here! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations to our student award winners and the Brian Winer for the Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations to our deserving staff award winners and nominees:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bryan Dunlap, Shirley McClung, and Pete Gosser <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Honorable mention: Mallory Aliff, Matt Barber, Jenny Finnell, Brad Hefner and Emma Wallis<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations to Pete Gosser for winning one of twelve University Distinguished Staff Awards!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to John and Dorothy Whitcomb for attending and presenting the Distinguished Staff Awards and for all the chocolate kisses.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It was a great picnic – mark your calendars for next year (reading day).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jim<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img width="224" height="45" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D081B8.DA76F8E0" alt="cid:CF287AA5-0A40-40C6-B168-6ECFC00BBAF4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#BB0000;background:white">James J. Beatty</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"><br>
<span style="background:white">Chair, Department of Physics</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#BB0000;background:white">Department of Physics</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"><br>
<span style="background:white">1040R Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210</span><br>
<span style="background:white">614-292-2653 Office</span><br>
</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:beatty.85@osu.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;background:white">beatty.85@osu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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