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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Everyone,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am delighted to let everyone know that Prof. Geraldine Cochran accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor in our department!
<span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">She will be joining our department July 1 of this year. Please be sure to welcome her when she arrives if not before.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">A huge thank you goes to: (i) Andrew Heckler, who chaired the search committee, (ii) the search committee: Lei Bao, Jim Fowler, Dick Furnstahl, Monica Cox, and Jon Pelz and (iii) Ruth Leonard,
who organized all of the visits, talks, and other logistics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Running a successful faculty search is a tremendous amount of work. I am grateful to everyone that helped make this a successful search.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With best wishes,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><img width="224" height="45" style="width:2.3333in;height:.4687in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D97DB7.1B76ADB0" alt="The Ohio State University"></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Professor and Chair</span><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Department of Physics</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> Department
of Chemistry & Biochemistry (by courtesy)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><a href="webextlink://1040%20Physics%20Research%20Building,%20191%20West%20Woodruff%20Avenue,%20Columbus,%20OH%2043210-1117" title="webextlink://1040 Physics Research Building, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1117"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0072C6;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">1040
Physics Research Building, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1117</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<span style="background:white">614- 247-4493 Office / 614-688-0742 Labs: 2135</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">,</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> 2147,
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