Today, the future meets the past with welcomes to 15 new graduate students to GSO and returning alumni who are visiting today and tomorrow.  The graduate program is the core of our educational activities at GSO, so these events are important milestones that I look forward to each year.  The incoming students, their schools and their advisors are:

Olivia Ahern, College of Charleston (Tatiana Rynearson)

Sean Anderson, Old Dominion University (Susanne Menden-Deuer)

Jacob Balconoff, UMASS Amherst (Steven Carey)

Austen Blair, Humboldt State University (Tetsu Hara)

Benjamin Chebot, Bates College (Rainer Lohmann)

Erik Dixon-Anderson, Grinnell College (Rainer Lohmann)

Peter Ferencevych, Ramapo College (Christopher Roman)

Aaron Hirsch, College of St. Benedict & St. John (Brian Savage)

Colin Jones, Willamette University (Rebecca Robinson)

Wendy Laurent, University of Rhode Island (David Smith)

M. Conor McManus, Boston University/University of Rhode Island, GSO (Jeremy Collie)

Christopher Orphanides, Colby College/Duke University (Jeremy Collie)

Kevin Rosa, University of Rhode Island (Christopher Kincaid)

Bailey Stauffer, Endicott College (Tatiana Rynearson)

R. Tucker Sylvia, University of Rhode Island (Christopher Kincaid)