It is with sincere regret that the University and the Department of English inform ETSU faculty and staff of the death of Dr. Steven Gross. Steven was an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the English department, where he had been since fall 2001. A Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, he enthusiastically taught a variety of linguistics courses, along with European and American literature surveys. His research interests included the structural outcomes of language contact situations and what they can tell us about universal aspects of language production and current theories of syntax, morphology, phonology, and language change. Steven was greatly respected by his colleagues and will be missed very much.