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Dear Jefferson Lab users:<br>
<br>
As the Chair of the Users Group Board of Directors, I am writing to
follow up on the very successful 2015 Users Group Annual Meeting
which took place June 1-3 at Jefferson Lab. All talks from the
meeting are on the web (<u><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.jlab.org/conferences/ugm/program.html">https://www.jlab.org/conferences/ugm/program.html</a></u>),
including some <b>detailed </b><b>updates on the accelerator
status, funding agency reports, and lab management overview
presentations</b>. In addition, the UG Business Meeting
presentation has some important information that I'd like to share
with those who could not attend:<br>
<br>
* <b>DNP Executive Committee Nominees</b>: The nomination deadline
is the end of June. The UGBOD recommended nominees for DNP executive
committee are<br>
Curtis Meyer for Vice Chair<br>
Gail Dodge and John Arrington for at-large committee members<br>
<br>
* <b>UGBOD changes</b>: The UGBOD has moved to a four-person chair
line. John Arrington became Past Chair, Larry Weinstein is Chair
Elect, and Krishna Kumar is Vice Chair. Additional new members are
Volker Crede, Nadia Fomin, and Misak Sargsian. We thank Dipangkar
Dutta, Jose Goity, and<strong> </strong>Steffen Strauch for their
great service to the users group, and John Arrington for his great
leadership as the Chair of UGBOD in the last two years. <br>
<br>
* There is a <b>new student supervisions policy</b>, summarized in
the slides and fully described here: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.jlab.org/ehs/ehsmanual/manual/2600.html">https://www.jlab.org/ehs/ehsmanual/manual/2600.html</a><br>
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* The talk during the business meeting by John Arrington: <a
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href="https://www.jlab.org/conferences/ugm/talks/wednesday/arrington.pptx">https://www.jlab.org/conferences/ugm/talks/wednesday/arrington.pptx</a>
also lists winners of the JSA thesis and postdoc prizes, the poster
prizes, and the JSA 2015-2016 graduate student fellowships.<br>
<br>
I, Larry, Krishna, and all other members on the UGBOD are very much
looking forward to hearing from you any time about your concerns and
ideas about how we may work together to improve things for the users
at Jefferson Lab. Wish you all a productive but also relaxing
summer.<br>
<br>
Best wishes, Haiyan Gao
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