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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for you participation in this election, and thank you to our peers who allowed their names to be put forward as part of the process.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The vote was straight forward and our two representatives to the CALS Faculty Council are Ravi Palanivelu (with 71% of the votes) and Marc Orbach (with 64% of the votes). (Remember we could vote for two people.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We had 28 Faculty Members participate in the election, a very good number, and thank you. Just for full disclosure I neither nominated anyone nor voted in the election.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations to Ravi and Marc, and my best regards to all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dennis<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">520-621-7612
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<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>
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