… me his decision to retire in a year, effective July 15, 2022. While I am excited for Alex to embark on the next chapter of his life, I will be sad to see him leave the Institute, a place he has called home for 13 years. Since 2008 when Alex became the Institute’s first provost, he has … Response Team) structure and led the charge to pivot all classes to online format last spring to meet the many challenges of the pandemic. During the fall 2020 and …