Dear Colleague Members of CSBE,

As we watch the snow melt, and grass re-appearing, we look forward to the new life that will emerge in the coming weeks with Spring. And indeed it is a new life, not just climatologically, but as we watch with cautious optimism the slow return to a post-pandemic period. It is going to be a different life in many ways. Thanks to rapid advances in vaccine technology, we have hopes for a return to some form of ‘normal”, and perhaps positively to the way we knew life prior to March 2020. But at the same time, we have learned to adapt over the past 12 months, and telecommuting may be a new normal for some of us. Certainly universities have changed the way courses are delivered, and there will be some, both teachers and students, who see the benefits of mixed mode on-line teaching combined with in-person classroom and lab teaching.