- On August 24, Professor Glenn Edwards left for the Curie Institute in Paris, France for a year-long sabbatical.
- In September Professor Moo-Young Han departs for one semester to teach at the College of Natural Sciences of the Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. He will return for the start of the Spring semester of 2010.
- At the end of August, Professor Henry Greenside will leave for a semester-long sabbatical at Janelia Farm Research Campus, a biomedical research center funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Loudoun County, Virginia.