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-- Our lab space has become fully functional, we welcome all our lab members on campus to use our facilities as much as possible.
-- A lab retreat is planned during the semester, will be discussing research and future work plans.
-- We welcome our new lab members for the spring semester:
-- Graduate students: Abdul HM Fattah & Shih-Suan Lo.
-- Research Data Support Specialist: Tanisha Lohchab.
+* Cristian accepted a Tenure Track faculty position at the School of Information!
+* Seed grant funded: Mackenzie Waller and I received ~20k from CAPLA (College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture) at UA towards working on open access software for formal planning. The app is still under development and can be foung here.
+* See grant funded: Chris Lim and I received ~50k for conducting research on the impacts of power outages on human health in the US.
+* We’re hiring our first staff member for Fall 2023/Spring 2024!
+* Danielle van Boxel, PhD candidate at the Applied Math department and who I co-advice, passed her COMPS and is moving forward with BARN/BARM!
+* Lia Ossana, PhD at the School of Natural Resources, passed her COMPS!
+* Reza Ehsani defended at the end of the semester, obtained his Ms in Data Science at the iSchool, and moved to San Francisco to start a Data Science position at Zipline.
+* Laura Falk (got married yay!! and changed her last name) completed her MsC in Data Science at the iSchool and presented at the Santa Cruz River Research Days. Check out her capstone project here.