<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d3582ca1-7fff-ab8a-912e-8d2fd21be3fe" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our students are back. I know you’re as excited as I am to welcome them.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Earlier, I sent students a welcome message linking to </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hot Scots</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, a webisode with UCR student Brooke Jamieson. She put me to the test in our take on the popular YouTube interview show </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hot Ones</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. She brought the questions. Our famed eatery, The Barn, brought the wings.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We talked about UCR, my student days, and my hopes for our students, all while the sauces got hotter.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There was even a sauce made with a </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7 Pot Primo pepper</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8p0okA6HnY" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Watch Hot Scots to see what happened</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a leading institution for student success, extending a warm welcome to our students matters. Thank you for all you’re doing in these first few days and the weeks ahead to help our students feel at home, access resources, and succeed at UCR.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Here’s to a great year,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">S. Jack Hu, Ph.D.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chancellor</span></p></font></span></div></div>