As I write this, we are wrapping up the spring se-mester and looking forward to the summer term. As you will see in this newsletter, our department had another large group of graduates this May, in-cluding 219 students who completed their B.S. de-gree. We continue to graduate the most students in the College of Humanities and Sciences as well as produce a significant percentage of the doctoral stu-dents at VCU. We are very proud of our graduates and look forward to continued interaction with them as alumni. We had several special events this semester related to our teaching mission. On March 14, we hosted the sixth annual Brain Day, an event for local high school students enrolled in AP psychology and biol-ogy courses. A record number of st...