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<div class="" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">NSF
Research Traineeship s in Ecosystems Genomics, UArizona (Funded Grad Fellowships Available)</span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">We
are now recruiting MS and PhD students into our Building Resources for InterDisciplinary training in Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences (BRIDGES) NSF Research Traineeship for Fall 2022. The BRIDGES NRT program offers:</span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">An exciting training and professional
development opportunity within a community of scholars who foster inclusive excellence through diversity of cultures, disciplines, and demographies;</span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Competitive student fellowships ($34,000
</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">stipend
</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">per year for up to two years,
</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">plus tuition waiver</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">)
for U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents;</span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">For
international students, other sources of support for graduate studies (such as research assistantships, teaching assistantships, other kinds of fellowships, etc.) may be available from other sources, and such students are welcome to apply to become BRIDGES
trainees;</span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Choice of biologically-oriented transdisciplinary
graduate training programs, from ecology and evolution, to plant, insect and environmental sciences to big data science and engineering to atmospheric sciences. </span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">We
welcome and encourage applications by students representing all dimensions of diversity.
</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">All eligible matriculating UArizona
students with an interest in Ecosystem Genomics can apply to the BRIDGES training program as participants, independent of nationality. NSF guidelines specify that eligibility for BRIDGES fellowships is limited to U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents. </span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Applications
received by December 3, 2021 will be included in our first review, </span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">but
those submitted after the date will be considered if space and funding is available.</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Visit
<a href="http://BRIDGES.arizona.edu" class="">http://BRIDGES.arizona.edu</a> for more details and contact us at
</span><a href="mailto:BRIDGES.NRT@gmail.com" class="" style="text-decoration:none"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">BRIDGES.NRT@gmail.com</span></a><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
with any questions.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Kind regards,</span></p>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Heather Ingram (she/her/hers)</span></p>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">BRIDGES Program Manager</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Ecology and Evolutionary Biology</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">University of Arizona</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:hci@email.arizona.edu" class="">hci@email.arizona.edu</a>
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