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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear Colleagues,</span></div>
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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
input to help us do that. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The student we choose as the Outstanding Senior of the PLS major 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-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 <b>(updated)</b>:</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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
<b>Feb. 21, 2025.</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>
</b>We will compile the information and present it to the PLS Curriculum Committee before our vote.</span></p>
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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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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Chair, PLS Curriculum Committee</span></p>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Ravishankar Palanivelu, Ph. D.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">School of Plant Sciences</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">University of Arizona</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Tucson, Arizona, 85721</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Phone: 520-626-2229</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Fax: 520-621-7186</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lab website: sites.arizona.edu/ravi-lab</div>
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