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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Each Fall and Spring semester an Outstanding Graduating Senior is chosen from each academic program. Please, any information found in this email is not to be shared with students, so please don’t say, oh yeah I hear you are in the running for Outstanding Senior, since they do not know. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For Fall graduation 2011, we have three students who are competitive (this is decided by GPA and other activities, for instance club participation, undergraduate research, etc.), and they are (listed alphabetically) Asher Haug-Baltzell, Robert Jones, and Amy Mellor. If you have had any of these three students in class, in an individual study project, an Honors Thesis, or on your work crew, etc., and would like to comment on them (champion them) as the Outstanding Senior for Fall 2011, please send the information directly to me (<a href="mailto:dtray@email.arizona.edu">dtray@email.arizona.edu</a>), and I will share it with the Awards Committee, who will make the final decision.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We also once a year can nominate a graduate student for the Meritorious Award for a Graduate Teaching Assistant, again if you have had a TA you would like to nominate, let me know directly (<a href="mailto:dtray@email.arizona.edu">dtray@email.arizona.edu</a>). Only one of these is given for the college, but the last three years a nominee from Plant Sciences has won this award.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you have any questions, please contact me,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dennis<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>_______________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dennis T. Ray, Ph.D.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>University Distinguished Professor</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Professor of Plant Sciences and Arid Lands Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bart Cardon Teaching Academy Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Forbes Bldg., Rm. 303</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>University of Arizona</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tucson, AZ 85721</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>520-621-7612 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>520-621-7186 (fax)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:dtray@email.arizona.edu"><span style='color:blue'>dtray@email.arizona.edu</span></a> (email)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>