Congratulations to Tim Redl, who this fall will become chair of the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Houston-Downtown, where he has been on the faculty for nearly 20 years. Tim graduated from the College with a degree in mathematics and received his master’s and Ph.D. in computational and applied mathematics from Rice University. Tim aims to engage his students and to provide them with enlightening and stimulating experiences, at times including humor, magic, and games in the classroom. He wrote: “Some of my favorite professors at Dartmouth who inspired me to teach were Dr. John Pfister (psychology), Dr. Thomas Cormen (computer science), and Dr. John Mackey (mathematics).” Tim lives in Rosharon, Texas, with wife Amy, 8-year-old daughter Melanie, and 6-year-old son Adam.

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—Jason Casell, 19018 Salado Canyon, San Antonio, TX 78258; jhcasell@gmail.com