During the holidays, WRRI’s student assistant Mohammed Hossan brought his new wife Erra Sharif and her parents to visit the institute. Mohammed and his in-laws are from Bangladesh, where he and his wife hope to return after Erra completes her engineering degree.
Mohammed graduated in December with a master’s in computer science and has accepted a position in Illinois. While at the WRRI, Mohammed was responsible for augmenting WRRI’s Home Page on the Internet and computer programming on various WRRI projects.

John Kennedy, another WRRI student assistant also graduated in December with a master’s degree in geology, and is now WRRI’s Geographic Information Systems Coordinator.

The WRRI congratulates both Mohammed and John. Front row from left: Darlene Reeves, Erra Sharif, Mohammed Hossan, Mr. and Mrs. Sharif; back row from left, John Kennedy, Bob Creel, Cathy Ortega Klett, and Cynthia Rex.