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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> Sankaran, Sindhuja <s.sankaran@wsu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 4, 2024 10:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bucksch, Alexander - (bucksch) <bucksch@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXT]Undergraduate research experience on ag data science [Summer 2024]</font>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Happy New Year 2024! Wishing you and your family a healthy, adventurous, and joyful year. I will greatly appreciate your help in sharing the information below with your colleagues and encourage
interested undergraduate students from your institution to apply.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Catch you up at NAPPN Annual Meeting
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sindhuja</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Washington State University has an undergraduate research experience project (similar to NSF REU) on ag data science. More details on the project, sample program schedules, and student projects
can be found at: <a href="https://labs.wsu.edu/sankaran-phenomics/undergrad-research-exp/" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWAddda9edd-38bb-2c0e-6524-5ce42436b75a" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
https://labs.wsu.edu/sankaran-phenomics/undergrad-research-exp/</a>. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This research experience will encompass sensor development, use of different proximal and remote sensing technologies, data processing, and data analysis associated with agricultural applications.
Some of the skills developed in this research experience (image processing, data processing, genomics/phenomics, machine learning, etc.) are relevant to the medical and other biological applications.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The application link is as follows:
<a href="https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6G681ZX8ovvDLbo" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWAf548429e-8671-6468-549b-943616313911" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6G681ZX8ovvDLbo</a>. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For any questions, reach out to me.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Regards,</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sindhuja Sankaran</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Washington State University</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1935 E Grimes Way, PO Box 646120, Pullman, WA 99164</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Office: 509-335-8828; Lab: 509-335-6952</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Website: <a href="https://labs.wsu.edu/sankaran-phenomics/" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA92dda190-e96b-1b78-dd25-f4a4218246e4" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
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