[Plsfaculty] SPLS: Follow-ups from our faculty meeting

[Arnold, Betsy - (fungi)]

Dear colleagues,

Thank you to everyone who came together, virtually and in person, for our SPLS faculty meeting on Friday.

We have a few follow-up items from that meeting, which this note will address at least in part.


  1.
Please find our slides from the meeting in the Box folder titled "SPLS Faculty and Staff Resources". If you can't find this Box, please let me know. The items posted here are intended for use, access, and view within the School unless otherwise noted. The Box should be accessible to all faculty.
  2.
Results of the seminar survey and other recent polls are also included there (see Poll results).
  3.
We agreed to note-taking by Dave Romens, and to not recording or using AI transcription of our meetings. Notes from this meeting will be posted shortly to the above-named Box. Should Dave be excused from meetings, we will appoint an alternate note-taker.
  4.
The schedule for our business team is below and is posted to the Box (see Infrastructure and support).
  5.
Please enter concerns, observations, or notes about conditions in Marley and other buildings on the spreadsheet present in that Box (see Infrastructure and support). Please note: the spreadsheet should serve as a log and should follow any emergency reports or FM reports that you make, or discussions you might have with building managers. That is, listing concerns on the log cannot take the place of such reports and will not initiate them. Instead, the log will help us know how many, and what kinds of, calls/concerns/reports are happening. These do not flow through unit- or College channels and often happen in parallel, resulting in a lack of systematic information. For now I ask that we receive reports from faculty for consistency of reporting and contacts, but we can broaden this as needed and move the spreadsheet accordingly. We are still figuring out Box permissions, but it should be possible to click on the three dots to the right of the file name and to open with Google Sheets to add your information.
  6.
As a reminder, we will return to regular seminar presentations tomorrow. A full announcement will follow, but in the meantime: please consider joining us tomorrow at 4pm for a seminar by Dakota Salyer, PhD candidate, who will discuss aflatoxins at a landscape scale. Dr. Marc Orbach will host her seminar. Coffee/cookies/collegiality will be available at 3:35pm in the Marley lobby ahead of Dakota's 4pm presentation in Marley 230 and online.

The Box will become populated with more useful items (seminar schedule, committee guidelines and related information, etc.) shortly. For now it is a work in progress.

Warm regards,
Betsy


SPLS office schedule - current as of October 2025
* = remote, otherwise in person

Monday
Jen Rascon, 8am-4:30pm
Bonnie Gilmore*, 8am-4:30pm
Nic Propp*, 1pm-4:30pm
Bobby de la Rosa, 11am-5pm

Tuesday
Jen Rascon, 8am-4:30pm
Bonnie Gilmore*, 8am-4:30pm
Nic Propp*, 1pm-4:30pm
Bobby de la Rosa, 2pm-5pm

Wednesday
Jen Rascon, 8am-4:30pm
Bonnie Gilmore, 8am-4:30pm
Nic Propp, 1pm-4:30pm
Bobby de la Rosa, 2pm-5pm

Thursday
Jen Rascon*, 8am-4:30pm
Bonnie Gilmore, 8am-4:30pm
Nic Propp*, 1pm-4:30pm
Bobby de la Rosa, 2pm-5pm

Friday
Jen Rascon*, 8am-4:30pm
Bonnie Gilmore, 8am-4:30pm
Nic Propp*, 1pm-4:30pm
Bobby de la Rosa, 9am-5pm






[The University of Arizona block 'A' logo.]
A. Elizabeth Arnold, PhD

Interim Director and Professor, School of Plant Sciences

Curator, Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium

Chair and Director of Graduate Studies,

Ecosystem Genomics GIDP

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

fungi at arizona.edu

www.arnoldlab.net<http://www.arnoldlab.net> | www.gilbertsonherbarium.net<http://www.gilbertsonherbarium.net>


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