October 7, 2010 From: Brent Ladd, ESE Program Manager Dear ESE Faculty: This is a farewell of sorts, in that I have accepted a new position at Purdue as the Education Director for the NSF Science of Information Center* based in the Computer Science Department effective in October (Oct. 8th last day in ESE office). It has been a pleasure working with each of you, and I am proud of the successes we have collectively achieved in building the Ecological Sciences and Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program and providing unique opportunities for students and faculty. I’m sure I will have the opportunity to continue to work with some of you in the future, as my new duties will include collaborating with existing programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels here at Purdue (along with the STC’s eight partner institutions Bryn Mawr College, Howard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, UC-San Diego, and University of Illinois). We are very pleased that current ESE PhD student, Lindsey Payne, will be serving part-time for the program until a new hire is made for ESE program manager. Please welcome her. Her contact information is: Email: paynel@purdue.edu<mailto:paynel@purdue.edu> ESE office phone: 41949 ESE office location: Mann 105F (office hours TBD) My new office and contact information beginning October 18: laddb@purdue.edu<mailto:laddb@purdue.edu> . Science of Information Center (SOI STC) HAAS, Rm. 202 Main Office Ph: 494-2908 https://soihub.org/ With Kind Regards, Brent T. Ladd * The new Science of Information Center's overarching vision is to advance science and technology through a new quantitative understanding of the representation, communication, and processing of information in biological, physical, social, and engineered systems.