Some of my closest friends treated me to a celebratory dinner Wednesday. This watercolor was done by Dr Weiling He, whom I recruited many years ago. She is now associate department head. She meant the painting to evoke the Mississippi River but it also is a memory of when we first met and we sat at a table and showed each other our sketchbooks.
In the center, Dr Bryan
Waters, my penultimate doctoral student. To the right, Dr Wei Yan,
interim department head, my frequent research collaborator, Berkeley
graduate, and a person that I recruited to the faculty 20 years ago.
I
am actually wearing the robes of Dr Jorge Vanegas. He also earned his
PhD from Stanford with the same faculty who mentored me but a few years
earlier. I recruited him also to Texas A&M. (My regalia is in
storage).
I am the white haired guy seated in the middle
while the faculty give me a standing ovation.
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