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Xiang-dong Hou has stepped down as Graduate Program Director after five years. He is succeeded by Brian Curtin. We thank Professor Hou for his service. Lu Lu has been reassigned as a tenure-track assistant professor. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State in 2009, and a post doc at Los Alamos, USF hired her as a visiting assistant professor in 2013. Dima Savchuk was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor. Stephen Suen has retired after 23 years at USF. A student of Geoffrey Grimmett at the University of Bristol, he applied probabilistic methods to solve problems in combinatorics and algorithms, particularly in graph theory. In 2014, he became Associate Chair. We wish him well on his future adventures. Meanwhile, Scott Rimbey is returning to the Associate Chair’s office. This August was the golden (fiftieth) anniversary for Marcus McWaters, who came to USF in 1966. He is one of two USF faculty who have served half a century at USF. Rebecca Wooten has left the University of South Florida after 25 years, first as a tutor for Project Thrust and a graduate student, later as an adjunct and then an assistant professor. A student of Chris Tsokos, she continued her work in applied statistics at USF while helping out in the Urban Scholars Outreach Program and many other efforts. We wish her well on her further adventures. Faculty News