Dear Colleagues,
As we approach the end of the semester, The University Seminars office begins to plan for the next. Our office will be reaching out to chairs in the upcoming weeks and again over the summer for schedules and for information for our 2018-2019 Directory. But, first, a moment of reflection. Those members who attended our Annual Dinner and Tannenbaum Lecture had the gift of hearing an engaging talk by Eric R. Kandel, M.D. on The Biology of Memory and Age Related Memory Loss. Kandel is a university professor and winner of The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000. Ron Gross, a prolific longtime member of the seminar’s community and co-chair of the University Seminar on Innovation in Education, was presented with the “Tannenbaum-Warner Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Great Service to The University Seminars.” The takeaway? Never retire from doing what you love! This said we all need a break sometimes. Beginning July 2019, Robert Pollack will be taking his first sabbatical in 15 years, returning Fall 2020. During his sojourn, Alice Newton will serve as Acting Director…