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Next week's National Security Conference, and some much deserved kudo's!<br>
The conference with ICCAE and CREES includes an intro from Dean Mafi and many experts including our incoming faculty, Dr. Anton Shirikov! Keynote April 10, 7pm at the Dole Institute by General Phillip Breedlove and other conference events April 11 in the Bruckmiller
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Congratulations again to Dr. Zhang for his International Teaching Award. There is a reception for him April 18 at 2:30pm in the Big 12 Room, Kansas Union<br>
Congratulations to our neighbor in Blake Hall, Kelly Bellmyer, of Linguistics who received a College Staff Award, actually in March, at College Staff Appreciation.<br>
This week is Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation week. We appreciate our grad students about to graduate and all of our grad students for their research and all that they do!</div>
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