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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><b><u>On Behalf of the PLS Website Development Committee: <o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>Dear all:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>The School Website Committee seeks your input and feedback regarding a <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>couple of items.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>First, we are defining areas of interest to be used to categorize <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>Faculty Research on the new PLS website.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>The idea is to provide selected research areas as tags and links, such <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>that visitors to the website can click on these links and come up with <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>a listing of faculty in these areas. Note that faculty would be <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>generally expected to associate themselves with several areas, but we <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>would prefer not to have areas populated by only single, or very few <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>faculty.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>The faculty research areas that we came up with are listed <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>alphabetically below. Please provide me with your general comments and input.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>1. Biochemistry and Physiology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>2. Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>3. Cell and Developmental Biology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>4. Controlled Environment Agriculture<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>5. Crop Production and Horticulture<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>6. Epigenetics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>7. Genetics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>8. Genomics and Bioinformatics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>9. Microbiology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>10. Plant Protection and Pathology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>11. Plant Reproductive Biology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>12. Plant Stress Biology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>13. Systems Biology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>Second, the website committee would like each of the faculty in our <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>School to provide a photographic image of themselves for inclusion in <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>the website. This image should be high-quality, of square aspect <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>ratio, and of no less than 300 dpi. We would like the image to be a <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>"head" shot with shoulders, the type of image that you would select to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>accompany an article published in UA News or the AZ Daily Star.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>If you do not have such a shot, Gabe has graciously volunteered to take <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>them -- please contact him to arrange for a time and place.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>Thanks and best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>David<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>David W. Galbraith<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Professor, School of Plant Sciences, and BIO5 Institute University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>