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<p class="MsoNormal">FYI: See highlight below and let me know if you are interested in attending.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Mcclaran, Mitchel P - (mcclaran) <mcclaran@arizona.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 20, 2023 9:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Funk, Julie Ann - (juliefunk) <juliefunk@arizona.edu>; Galbraith, David W - (galbrait) <galbrait@arizona.edu>; Kacira, Murat - (mkacira) <mkacira@arizona.edu>; Merrell, Douglas Scott - (dscottmerrell) <dscottmerrell@arizona.edu>; Scaramella, Laura
V - (scaramella) <scaramella@arizona.edu>; Stoner, Kathryn E - (kstoner) <kstoner@arizona.edu>; Wilund, Kenneth R - (kwilund) <kwilund@arizona.edu><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Invite to Get-To-Know Session Arizona Experiment Station in November 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">20 July 2023 </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Julie Funk, Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">David Galbraith, Interim Director, School of Plant Sciences </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Murat Kacira, Interim Head, Biosystems Engineering </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Scotty Merrell, Director, Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Laura Scaramella, Interim Head, Agricultural Education, Technology, and Innovation </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Kate Stoner, Director, School of Natural Resource and the Environment </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ken Wilund, Director, School of Nutritional Science and Wellness </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hi Julie, David, Murat, Scotty, Laura, Kate, and Ken, </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We invite you to a
<b>Get-To-Know and Q&A Session</b> with the Leaders of the Arizona Experiment Station (AES). You are invited because of your new roles as leaders of academic units in the College of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Sciences (CALES) and the College of Veterinary
Medicine (CVM). </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Our goals for this Session are to increase awareness of the AES facilities and services available for you and your faculty, increase our awareness of your needs and future plans, and to develop
good relations between AES, CALES and CVM. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The Session will include short, 5 minute presentations by the Leaders of the 10 AES Units (<a href="https://experimentstation.arizona.edu/">https://experimentstation.arizona.edu/</a>) describing
their location, facilities, opportunities for research, extension, and instruction. We will also give an overview of our mission, organizational structure, and procedures for requesting and paying for services. The majority of the time will be set aside for
Q&A discussions. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We hope you can attend, and
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">we invite you to bring 1-2 of your faculty who might be new or interested in learning more about opportunities for working with AES</span>. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The Session will occur during our AES Annual Meeting in Tucson in early November. Specifically, we have two options for days/times for the Session. Our preferred option is 2-4 pm on Wednesday November
8, 2023, because it is at the beginning of our 2-day meeting and we would invite you to dinner that evening. Our second option is 10-12 am on Thursday November 9, 2023, and this is less preferred because we adjourn our meeting that afternoon. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The meeting place is the Windmill Inn, in St Phillips Plaza (Campbell and River;
<a href="https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/tussphw-homewood-suites-tucson-st-philips-plaza-university/">
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/tussphw-homewood-suites-tucson-st-philips-plaza-university/</a>), and dinner is across the parking lot at La Reforma (<a href="https://www.reformatucson.com/">https://www.reformatucson.com/</a>). </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please reply by noting your availability and preference for these two options. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please send your response by August 1, 2023, so that we can secure plans soon after. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Option 1: 2-4 pm on Wednesday November 8, 2023, with dinner at 6 pm </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Preferred ____ </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Available but not Preferred _____ </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Not Available ______ </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Option 2: 10-12 am on Thursday November 9, 2023 </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Preferred ____ </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Available but not Preferred _____ </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Not Available ______ </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We look forward to your reply, and meeting with you in November. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Best of luck in your new positions. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Cheers, </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Mitch </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Mitch McClaran<br>
Professor of Range Management, School of Natural Resources and the Environment<br>
Director for Research, Santa Rita Experimental Range<br>
Director, Arizona Experiment Station<br>
Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences and Cooperative Extension<br>
University of Arizona<br>
520-390-9801 (cell)<br>
520-621-1673 (office)<br>
<a href="http://snre.arizona.edu/people/mitch-mcclaran">http://snre.arizona.edu/people/mitch-mcclaran</a><br>
Office Location: 112 Biological Sciences East</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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