[Prevscilist] Happy Winter Solstice and welcome to winter break!

[Leslie Leve]

Dear CPHS graduate student community:

I am writing just minutes before Winter Solstice 2022 (occurring at 1:48 p.m. PST today). Winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It also marks the official start of winter – which means that we have all arrived at the much-anticipated winter break! Congratulations to all of you, and especially to our first-year students who successfully completed your first year in our graduate program, and to the MANY of you who completed major program milestones thi fall, such as dissertation proposals, milestone papers, internship applications, and clinical externships. We did it!

In winter term, we will have 12 tenure-line faculty applicants visiting campus on January 12-13 for a 2-day mini-conference. Most recurring doc sems/research sems and some courses will be cancelled on those days, to allow students and faculty alike to attend the presentations and meetings. Due to this event occurring in Week 1 of the term, and CSPY admissions occurring on the Friday of Week 3 of the term, this means that there is only 1 Friday faculty meeting in January, and it will be a closed session focused on long-term leadership planning for faculty. The every other faculty meeting open sessions will occur on Feb 3, Feb 17, March 3, and March 17, from 8:45 – 9:30am. We will continue to post agendas and minutes on Teams.

I hope that the next 2.5 weeks bring you peace and happiness, and also provide time to appreciate the pause from our academic activities and take a breath of fresh air (literally or figuratively). Best wishes to all for this solstice day, take a look outside at 1:48pm Pacific today if you have the chance, to see us turn the corner to winter and then watch the daylight hours inch up minute by minutes in the days and months that will follow upon our winter term return!

See you all in 2023!
Leslie


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Leslie Leve, Professor
Lorry Lokey Chair in Education
Department Head, Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, College of Education
Scientist, Prevention Science Institute
University of Oregon
Web: https://levelab.uoregon.edu/ and  https://education.uoregon.edu/people/prevsci/leve
Member, National Scientific Council on Adolescence, https://developingadolescent.org/

The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, and they continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.




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