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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">It is time for the PLS Curriculum Committee to select the Spring 2025 Outstanding Senior for the undergraduate Plant Sciences (PLS) major, and we would appreciate your
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The student we choose as our PLS Outstanding Senior will be eligible for the CALS Outstanding Senior award for Spring 2025. They will be judged based on <b>academic achievement</b>, <b>student, college,
university, community organization membership</b>, and other <b>noteworthy extracurricular affiliations</b>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">We have eight graduating PLS students this semester:</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Shelby</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">If you have interacted with any of these students inside or outside of a classroom and think they should be considered further for the PLS and the CALS Outstanding Senior awards,
please fill out this Google Form: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://forms.gle/cKQiVHtYno17qUKJA" target="_blank" id="LPlnkOWAa992e5f6-cfad-c4ca-447d-b93a495c60b3" class="OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://forms.gle/cKQiVHtYno17qUKJA. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" originalsrc="https://forms.gle/cKQiVHtYno17qUKJA" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="0" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody" style="margin: 0px;">https://forms.gle/cKQiVHtYno17qUKJA</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Please complete this form by <b><span dir="ltr">Feb. 21, 2025</span>. </b>We will compile the information and present it to the PLS Curriculum Committee before our
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Thank you for your time</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">On behalf of the SPLS Curriculum Committee</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Ravi Palanivelu</span></p>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ravishankar Palanivelu, Ph. D.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">School of Plant Sciences</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">University of Arizona</span></div>
<div><span dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tucson, Arizona, 85721</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Phone: <span dir="ltr">520-626-2229</span></span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fax: <span dir="ltr">520-621-7186</span></span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Web: <span dir="ltr">http://ag.arizona.edu/research/ravilab</span></span></div>
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