Dear All CSSA Members,

We hope everybody had a happy Chinese new year festival.

This is an important announcement. Our CSSA Chair, Mr. Wang Bo, will transfer to another university for academic purpose, and he is not able to fulfill his one-year tenure. According to Mr. Wang Bo's nomination, CSSA executive committee recommend Ms. Wu Rong to be the interim CSSA Chair.

Ms. Wu Rong is a third-year Ph.d. Student in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering. She has worked in CSSA committee for two years and she is the current Treasurer of CSSA exective committee.

After examining Ms. Wu Rong's qualifications, the Comittee of CSSA Council of Representatives agreed unanimously that Rong is approved as interim CSSA Chair. She will fulfill her tenure until July, 2006.

We appreciate Mr. Wang Bo's excellent work and service for our whole community, and wish all the best to Ms. Wu Rong's future work.

Best regards,
Committee, CSSA Council of representatives, 2005-2006

Weihua Su
President, CSSA Council of representatives, 2005-2006