 Greetings from your home away from home and a special hello to those of you who will be joining us for the first time this fall. I hope your summer's off to a great start and let me commend the one-third of you who are earning degree credits along with whatever other work-and-fun you have planned. This may seem an odd time to bring up the subject of COVID but we never stop thinking of ways to keep Purdue one of the very safest campuses in America and after what this bug has put us all through the last couple years we're not inclined to leave any precaution untaken or anything to chance. You'll be receiving all the details within the next few weeks but let me take just a minute to describe the framework for our 2022 Protect Purdue program. Purdue got through the last two years better than other schools our size in part due to actions the university took but the primary no the essential factor was the maturity and responsibility of our students. We decided against shutdowns lockdowns or mandates trusting instead that boiler makers left to make their own free choices would opt to pull together to as we put it protect yourself protect others protect Purdue and that will remain our approach. As the semester starts we'll ask students to monitor themselves carefully for any symptoms take a test promptly if they suspect an infection and to have an isolation plan ready if it proves necessary. We'll have home tests available and onsite testing in our health centers. We'll be testing wastewater for any signs of the virus and sequencing any we find to watch for further mutations. We're asking everyone to report their vaccination status in case an outbreak forces us to resume surveillance testing a move we earnestly hope to avoid. This beautiful Indiana spring brought a return of full normalcy to our campus and we have every reason to expect the same this fall but we want you and your loved ones to know that your safety and peace of mind come first with us here and we're at work right now trying to ensure that you can devote all your energy to studying hard growing intellectually and having some fun along the way. See you in August and Boiler Up!