My dissertation defense with my committee. From left to right: Dr. Marc F. Bellemare, Dr. Steve Polasky, me, Dr. Justin A. Johnson, and Dr. Forrest Fleischman (Department of Forest Resources).
Crossing the graduation stage while holding my then-two-year-old son. Professor Paul Glewwe hooded me as President Cunningham, Dean Buhr, and other university leaders and faculty members on stage looked on, smiling. One attendee captured the moment perfectly: “You got the degree, but he [my son] is the star.”