Guiomar Duenas-Vargas celebrates her new granddaughter

Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas, Associate Professor of History, sends news about her new granddaughter, Amelie:

"My NIETA is here enlightening my life. It is totally a new feeling. Disbelief of such an adorable human being, a need to protect her, to be close to her every minute. Needless to say that she is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my entire life."

Amelie's mother is Guiomar's daughter Francina, who is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Hydrology at the University of Arizona. She received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois in 2006.