Hi folks! Here's a look back at our annual Holiday Party.
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Food, glorious food.

The Food! mmm...mmm....good!

Group therapy

The Fun! Dr. Lara (O'Dwyer, that is) provides group therapy to the grad students (and some of the staff).

Faculty-oids

The Faculty! Or rather the faculty as perceived by the grad students.

Eldridge
Eldridge Moores gets into the spirit of the party! Retired life is good!
Naomi and JasonNew grad students Naomi Marks and Jason Altekruse wonder what they have gotten themselves into! Ken
Ken Verosub cuts a dashing figure in his party clothes!
Z and Bob

Our charming host, Rob Zierenberg with an equally charming guest, Bob Matthews!

Jim and Linda

Linda and Jim McClain...it's a mini-vacation without the kids!

Kate and Magali

Kate Hill and Magali Billen are enjoying the fun in the sun...or is it the moon?

Sarah and Howard

Tsk...tsk....Sarah Gaudio and Howard Day talk shop!

Eric and James

Eric Cowgill and James Bishop let their hair down after a long quarter!

Lara and EMM

Lara Heister multi-tasks while talking to Eldridge Moores!

After dinner, the students (as their faculty doppelgangers) serenaded us with the smooth sound of "When a Man Loves a Theory" -an adaptation of the Michael Bolton version of the original Percy Sledge song.

Sing, sing a song.

"When a Man Loves a Theory"

When a man loves a theory
Can't keep his mind on nothin' else
He'd change the world
For the good thing he's found

If the theory's bad, he can't see it
It can do no wrong
Turn his back on his colleague
If he puts it down

When a man loves a theory
Spend his very last dime
Trying to hold on
To what he needs

He'd give up all his comforts
And sleep up in the lab
If the theory said that's the way
It ought to be

And what's a party without a Powerpoint presentation?

Shadow puppets!

The captive audience Young at heart
Younger at heart Youngest at heart
Our hero
Duty calls
You know how they say that long-time couples start to look like each other? Well...the grad students put that theory to the test!
Chips
Chips aka Eric Brown and Chip Lesher
Dawns

Dawns
aka Bekah Shepard, Dawn Sumner, and Megan Murphy

Deweys

Deweys
aka James Bishop and John Dewey

Erics

Erics
aka Ryan Gold, Eric Cowgill and Nick Raterman

Howards

Howards
aka Sean Mulcahy and Howard Day

Howies

Howies
aka Howie Spero and John Naliboff

Isabels

Isabels
aka Amelia Robinson and Isabel montañez

Jims
Jims
aka Beth Dushman and Jim McClain
Kens

Kens
aka Ben Jacobsen and Ken Verosub

Magalis

Magalis
aka Margarete Jadamec, Magali Billen and Erin Burkett

Peters

Peters
aka Sarah Gaudio and Peter Schiffman

Sarahs

Sarahs
aka Tatia Taylor and Sarah Roeske

Zs

Zs
aka Naomi Marks and Rob Zierenberg

James Dewey

“James” Dewey
Partying is hard work!

hey, stop surfing.
get back to work!



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