<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear INES Community,</div><div><br></div><div>In these challenging times I am grateful for the opportunity to gather in solidarity at the ASEE Conference in Montreal. The Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) <a href="https://nemo.asee.org/public/conferences/365/registration/sessions?utf8=%E2%9C%93&osl_session_filter%5Bsearch%5D=&commit=Search&osl_session_filter%5Bsession_title%5D=&osl_session_filter%5Bauthor_name%5D=&osl_session_filter%5Bpaper_title_abstract%5D=&osl_session_filter%5Bsession_owner_id%5D=3125&osl_session_filter%5Btype%5D=&osl_session_filter%5Bticketed%5D=&osl_session_filter%5Btopic%5D=&osl_session_filter%5Bday%5D=&osl_session_filter%5Btime%5D=">program</a> may be of particular interest to INES members; this year it will feature a timely/urgent Distinguished Lecture by Amy Slaton, "Engineering DEI and the History of 2025," a panel on Indigenous Activism advancing "Engineering for the People and the Planet," and many sessions papers sharing scholarship on sociotechnical integration, interdisciplinary collaboration, and engineering studies that will resonate with INES members. We are grateful to INES for cosponsoring this year's <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">LEES & Friends Cross-Division Social, for which a flyer is attached. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">If you plan to attend, please be sure to RSVP </span><a href="https://forms.gle/pHe8Sr5JEsHNKwny7" id="m_3456119893207448758LPlnk525476" title="https://forms.gle/pHe8Sr5JEsHNKwny7" target="_blank" style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">here</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">. Look forward to conversations with those who join us this year.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Cheers,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Jenn Rossmann</span></div><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jenn Stroud Rossmann (she/hers)<br></div><div>Baird Professor of Mechanical Engineering<br></div><div>Lafayette College</div><div><a href="https://sites.lafayette.edu/rossmanj/" target="_blank">https://sites.lafayette.edu/rossmanj/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>