With both the holidays and final exams looming over the horizon, I’ve been thinking a lot about the pleasures of being in good company. As a recent graduate who has returned to campus, I am constantly being reminded of how much of my work is shaped simply by the joys of being with others in the labs and classrooms, in the Faculty Hub, and in the hidden corners of campus we come to know intimately over the course of our (many) days here.
In that direction, the Faculty Hub invites you to join us at our ongoing Dhall breakfast gatherings: Morning Blend on Wednesdays and the Building AI Literacy FLC on Fridays. As feminist scholar Donna Haraway reminds us, ‘company’ finds its roots in the Latin cum panis, or ‘with bread,’ or, more likely for the rest of us, ‘with coffee.’ So, while our to-do lists grow longer and the daylight gets shorter, we nevertheless look forward to gathering with you in the upcoming months.