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to see you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-Grady<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>===============================================<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>Grady Price Blount, Ph.D., </span></i><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>Professor of Physics and Dean,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>College of Science, Engineering & Agriculture (CoSEA)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>Texas A&M University-Commerce<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>Commerce, Texas 75429-3011</span></i><i><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>Telephones: </span></i><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>903-886-5781 (office) 325-716-0450 (cell)</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>===============================================<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Talent hits a target no one else can hit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Genius hits a target no one else can see.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> -Schopenhauer<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div 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pm)</span></em><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Removing the Thorns from STEM: A Dean’s guide to improving </span></strong><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>STEM learning and promoting civic engagement,</span></strong></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> $45</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>With DonnaJean Freeden, SENCER Center for Innovation-New England Co-Director and Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Southern Connecticut State University, and others</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Associate & Assistant Deans: Leading from the middle,</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> $105</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>With Mary Coussons-Read and Tammy Stone, authors of <em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Leading from the Middle: </span></em><i><br><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>A case-study approach to academic leadership for associate deans</span></em></i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></em><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Gender Issues Breakfast,</span></em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> $45</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>“Nudging Colleagues to Rise above Cognitive Shortcuts and Biases: </span></strong><b><span 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