Sounds great we are excited to have family move closer!

It looks like we are heading to Reno for graduate school. It is not official yet, but Dr. Nowak made me an offer over the phone and I accepted. It still has to be approved by the department head and the graduate school. We are pretty excited about this. Kansas State was our first choice but I was placed on an alternate list there and the prospects of me getting in did not look good. UNR was our second choice with U of I being the third choice. I will be awarded a research assistantship (full tuition waiver and $15,000 stipend) in Dr. Bob Nowaks lab. Bob is a nationally recognized plant ecologist and a "big hitter" according to my advisor here at ISU. I will be working at the Mojave Global Change Facility near Las Vegas studying the effects of predicted global change models on desert plants (ie. increased precipitation, increased nitrogen deposition, and increased CO2). I am excited to work in a lab that actually has some money and nice equipment. We will be moving towards the end of May. That is about all for now I guess. Take care, Chris.