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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">The SPLS graduate committee is inviting a few student candidates later this week to campus for a recruitment event. Please see the below google doc to sign up
for any invited student you might be interested in meeting and mingle with candidate graduate students at some of the group events.
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Thursday Feb 24: Gentle Ben’s 5:30pm</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> <b>Friday Feb 25 Boxyard
</b>-- meet at Marriott Lobby 5:30pm to ride the light rail<br>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nrt0hQSuF03T-pqaQVRKUBLybOWMxtS-8oWoRcfyKY4/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#0563C1">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nrt0hQSuF03T-pqaQVRKUBLybOWMxtS-8oWoRcfyKY4/edit?usp=sharing</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Details for each student application are available via the GradApp (</span><a href="http://apply.grad.arizona.edu/user/login"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">http://apply.grad.arizona.edu/user/login</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">).
Please contact Amanda A if you do not have access.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> Students will need to perform a COVID test prior to travel and a rapid COVID test upon arrive to campus.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Please look at the Peter W Likins Graduate Fellowship award
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<a href="https://grad.arizona.edu/funding/opportunities/peter-w-likins-graduate-fellowship-award">https://grad.arizona.edu/funding/opportunities/peter-w-likins-graduate-fellowship-award</a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Email me to let me know by
<span style="background:yellow">Monday March 14</span> if you are interested in nominating a current 1<sup>st</sup> or 2<sup>nd</sup> year student. The unit can only nominate a single student for this award, so if there is more than 1 nominee the graduate
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Thank you for making the PLS graduate program a success!<br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Hope everyone is doing well. Take care</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:#003760">Monica A. Schmidt PhD</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:#003760">Associate Professor</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:#003760">University of Arizona</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:#003760">School of Plant Sciences</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:#003760">BIO5 Institute</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:#003760">1657 E.Helen St.</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:#003760">Tucson, AZ 85721-0240</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:#003760">Tel: (520) 626-1643</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:#003760">Email: monicaschmidt@email.arizona.edu</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:#44546A">http://cals.arizona.edu/research/schmidt/</span></p>
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