Chair's and DM's,

Thank you for your collegial relationship as we navigate this difficult year. I look forward to the future and the great things we can accomplish in A&S....Pam

Jennifer, Jen and Pam - You are a great team to work for. Thank you for all you do and keeping us afloat electronically. You have proved your true leadership skills.

Thank you to all of the staff in A&S who have struggled this year with juggling remote work all while dealing with NTI and caring for themselves and other family members. Everyone has done a remarkable job keeping up with the workload and becoming zoom experts! Let's hope that we can see each other in person once again in 2021!

I just want to thank my professor and the staff for their support! As a freshman at the University it was a huge challenge with the online learning and the pandemic, therefore without your support I don't think I could make it this far! I'm so grateful to have had you as a professor and staff! Our course was so easy, you were there when we needed you to explain any aspect that was unclear in a chapter. Thank you very much! It was a great experience we finally face and win the challenge🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Thanks to Dr. Geddes and Dr. Debski for turning BIO 302 into a fascinating, interactive, fully online course! We appreciate your adaptability and willingness to help your students succeed!

On behalf of our philanthropy team, thanks to everyone who has pitched in to help us thank and steward our donors over the past 8 months. Our work looks different than it did before, but with your help we are staying connected to donors and reminding them the value of investing in Arts & Sciences. Thank you!

Leadership just-past and present. Since March you have been faced with an enormous challenge to lead. Logistics. Camaraderie. Innovation. You were there for us, all of you: Deans, Associate Deans, Finance, Scheduling, Facilities, Technology. Think about all the tees you had to cross and eyes you had to dot - to help the College and UK move forward! Crazy. Factum magna. Many thanks.

Thanks, Kathryn, for your outstanding work in the Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies program in extraordinarily difficult times. We are profoundly fortunate to have your leadership, and I am grateful to be your colleague.

Dr. Duncan,
Thank you for being such a great research mentor even throughout a strange semester. I was so glad that you took time out every week to meet with me and discuss research even if I couldn't be in the physical lab this semester. Thanks for your support!

Thank you for having all the answers! And in the rare moments when you don't have the answer right in front of you, for having it faster than thunder catches lightning.

I am very thankful to Brynn and Andrew for their help over the summer and this fall to get offices and spaces set up, deliver chairs, file cabinets, bookcases, shove desks around, or whatever else it took to get the job done. They did this sometimes in dirty warehouses or spaces and with little prior notice, and always with a smile and a can-do attitude. Truly hard workers and team players!

I am thankful for the communication with the Department Managers since we scattered in so many directions in March. Your partnership and communication have been so helpful to keep the daily facility operations and processes running smoothly.

I would like to thank Professor Ehrenborg and all of my other colleagues in the Mathematics Department for once again running a professional, uplifting and engaging semester.

I want to thank the faculty in the Linguistics Department and all of the students who take linguistics classes. They have worked tirelessly to make this semester happen. The faculty have truly done fantastic work in these circumstances, as have the students in their classes. Well done!

Brittany, thank you so much for the work that you’ve done helping to lead the WRD new teacher mentor program during this most difficult year. You’ve been an absolute inspiration to our new teachers and an overall force for good.

Kari, thank you for being a kind, considerate, patient colleague and office mate! I'm grateful for your hard work and your intelligence, creativity, and eye for detail. You make my job easier and my workday happier.
Your dedication and excellence benefit every department in the College of Arts and Sciences!
Thank you for all you do!

Thank you to the Hive Web Team! The work you do, the websites you build (like this beautiful wall), and the custom Applications you create to help our College promote the great work being done is 2nd to none. We're all very lucky to call you colleagues and friends!

The Hive Technical Support team is the best there is on this campus or anywhere else. The work that this team has done, specifically during this pandemic, to make sure all of our faculty and staff can continue to do their work wherever they may be should certainly be commended. Thank you so much for the work you do, the College is very fortunate to have such professionals to work alongside!

Thank you for your years of service to the College! You supported faculty and students in so many ways, and you made working in A&S a true joy. Thanks for being a wonderful Dean!

Thank you Kelvin for quickly getting the information that I needed yesterday! I appreciate this so much and everything you do daily for the College!

Dear Dr. Zhang,
Thank you for bringing me to the Gender and Women`s Studies major, I learned a lot from you and this major. Thank you for answering all my questions, although I know sometimes I am not a good student, but you are always patient with me. I am really grateful to have you as my prof.

Thank you Dr. Udvardy for such a fun ANT 160 class. I have learnt so much and really enjoyed the lectures (even though it was online). Can't wait to apply what you taught us to the real world!

Thank you for everything you do each semester, for your infinite patience and good attitude towards each of our questions or problems. We really appreciate all you do and your hard work.

Ren,
I am grateful and thankful for being the PERFECT LAB MATE, FRIEND, and a WONDERFUL MENTOR to me. Be as amazing as you are now and always. Thank you!!
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Anjana

Thank you, Kathryn, for bearing with me and ALL my questions!! You saved me many times and I am extremely grateful.

Thanks to Raegan for being a partner in crime when it comes to meeting up and working side by side (while socially distanced, of course) in various coffee shops, of varying internet capabilities, throughout this remote work period. Thank you for carrying on our "office neighborhood" and for the sense of normalcy those outings have provided!

Thanks to all the members of the A&S Creative and Technical Team for the great work you do. The quality of your work is phenomenal and it is obvious you take great pride in it. We also really appreciate the close working relationship our team enjoys with you on all our renovation and improvement projects.

Thanks to all the members of the A&S Business Center. My Team and I work closely with them daily and they are always willing and eager to help with anything we need from placing furniture orders for our customers to establishing needed funding paperwork for renovations. We appreciate the work you do!

Dr. Abboud has made the transition in WRD 210 to online learning seamless. It's extremely evident he cares for his students. His overall positivity, patience, and encouragement should not go unnoticed!