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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Dear Grads,<br>
In this week's newsletter, you will find information concerning:</span></p><p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">1.<span style=""> </span>GSA
Council Meeting, TODAY March 5<sup>th</sup><br>2.<span style=""> </span>GSA
Conference Volunteers<br>3.<span style=""> </span>GSA
Research Awards<br>4.<span style=""> </span>3rd
Annual Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Research Symposium – March 3<sup>rd</sup><br>5.<span style=""> </span>Outreach </span></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Opportunity</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, March 8<sup>th</sup>
<br>6.<span style=""> </span>Call for
Grad Student Art<br>7.<span style=""> </span>It's
Raining Debt-Sign a Postcard to the Legislature's Budget Subcommitees Chairs!<br>8.<span style=""> </span>UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference@
CalPoly </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">San
Luis Obispo</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: navy;"> </span></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br>9.<span style=""> </span>Building
a Grassroots Coalition between UC Students and the UC Office of the President
(UCOP)</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Please read below for more
details.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">_____________________________________<br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">1.<span style=""> </span>GSA
Council Meeting, TODAY March 5<sup>th</sup></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> Our next council meeting
will be TODAY Wednesday March 5<sup>th</sup> starting at </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">6:30pm</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> sharp in Olmstead 421.<span style=""> </span>Come by for pizza at </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">6pm</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> as no food is allowed inside the room.<span style=""> </span>We will be discussing funding for the
Mechanical Engineer miniGSA Symposium, the GSA conference, and few
presentations about upcoming miniGSA events.<span style="">
</span>See you then! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">_____________________________________<br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">2.<span style=""> </span>GSA
Conference Volunteers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Our annual GSA conference
chair, Vanessa Miller, is looking for volunteers.<span style=""> </span>Sign up as we strive to make it the biggest
conference in GSA's history.<span style=""> </span>For more
information contact: <a href="mailto:gsaucr@ucr.edu">gsaucr@ucr.edu</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">_____________________________________<br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">3.<span style=""> </span>GSA
Research Awards</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Applications for the GSA
Research Awards will be available next week.<span style="">
</span>In addition to the application form, you will be asked to provide an
abstract of your work and two support letters from the faculty.<span style=""> </span>We will provide you with an application once
we receive and review your abstract</span><br><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">_____________________________________<br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">4.<span style=""> </span>3rd
Annual Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Research Symposium – March 3<sup>rd</sup></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The Mechanical Engineering
Graduate Student Association will have the 3rd Annual Mechanical Engineering
Graduate Student Research Symposium on the coming Friday, March 7th from </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">9:00am</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> ~ </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">5:30pm</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">. The symposium consists of 12 oral presentations from graduate
students, one sponsor presentation from Alireza Moharrer, the chair of ASME
Cal-inland section and one keynote presentation named 'The future of
Bioengineering' given by Prof. Jerome Schultz from department of
Bioengineering.<br>
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The symposium will be held in Engineering Building Unit II 205&206. We will
set up directions around campus on the event day. The event is open to all UCR
graduate students and you are welcome to walk in to see what is going on in
researches of Mechanical Engineering.<br style="">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">_____________________________________<br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">5.<span style=""> </span>Outreach </span></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Opportunity</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, March 8<sup>th</sup>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> Upward Bound is looking
for graduate students to share information about their graduate program and
experience for a panel of their students.<span style="">
</span>Upward Bound is a federally funded TRIO program that serves first
generation, low income high school students.<span style="">
</span>For more information contact Lena Tisdale: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="mailto:lenat@ucr.edu">lenat@ucr.edu</a> <br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">___________________________________<br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">6.<span style=""> </span>Call for
Grad Student Art</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">If you are a musician,
have a demo tape/CD that you would like to have featured in our lounge……If you
are a writer and would like to display your work on our poet's block or story
wall….If you have paintings, that you would like featured in our art gallery…..Please
contact Alex Cortez: <a href="mailto:gsaucr@ucr.edu">gsaucr@ucr.edu</a> <br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">_____________________________________</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">7.<span style=""> </span>It's
Raining Debt-Sign a Postcard to the Legislature's Budget Subcommitees Chairs!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The Governor's proposed
budget cuts $332 million from the UC System, which translates into fee hikes
upwards if 30% and possible enrollment halts. If the state continues to divest
from higher education, students are in for floods of debt! Tell the Budget
SubCommitee Chairs to stop the rain. There are postcards at the GSA office and
at GSA events. Please sign one and GSA will send it to the legislature for you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">For more information
please contact the GSA Campus Organizing Director Ching-In Chen at <a href="mailto:echen014@student.ucr.edu">echen014@student.ucr.edu</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">_____________________________________</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">8.<span style=""> </span>UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference@
CalPoly </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">San
Luis Obispo</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: navy;"> </span></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Have you been working to make your campus
environmentally or socially sustainable? We would like to hear your story!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The Seventh Annual <span style="">UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference</span> at CalPoly San Luis Obispo
is looking for student leaders who are reducing their campuses and their own
environmental impact and working towards a more environmentally, socially and
economically equitable world. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Deadlines: <br>
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Presentation proposals due </span><span style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Feb 26, 2008</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">.<br>
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Poster proposals due </span><span style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">June 1, 2008</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">.<br>
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Registration open<span style="">s in March 2008.<br>
</span>Conference dates<span style=""> July 31-</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Aug 3, 2008</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">.<br>
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For more information, visit the GSA Website at <a href="http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/UCSA.html">http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/UCSA.html</a> or
visit the conference website at: <a href="http://sustainability.calpoly.edu/" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://sustainability.calpoly.edu/">http://sustainability.calpoly.edu</a>
and click on the <span style="color: rgb(254, 0, 0);">Call for Proposals</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Georgia;">9.<span style=""> </span>Building
a Grassroots Coalition between UC Students and the UC Office of the President
(UCOP)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">UCOP recently met with UC Students in an effort
to build a grassroots coalition and to establish more lines of communication
between UC students and UCOP.<span style=""> </span>UCOP wants
to register as many students as possible at <a href="http://www.ucforcalifornia.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">www.ucforcalifornia.org</span></a>.
Please sign up, so you can let UCOP know what issues are of importance to you,
how you feel about rising fees, and anything else you want them to know about.
Pass the link on to your friends, parents, and fellow students.<span style=""> </span>In addition, as more students get involved, a
blog will be created so that students can comment directly to UCOP about how
they feel regarding rising tuition costs, etc.<span style="">
</span>There is also a Facebook page…so again…sign up!</span></tt></p><p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.ucforcalifornia.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">www.ucforcalifornia.org</span></a> </span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://uci.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6756592601" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://uci.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6756592601</span></a></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/advocacy"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">www.universityofcalifornia.edu/advocacy</span></a></span></tt><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span></p>
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<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">If you would like more information, please go to the GSA website or contact the GSA at </span><a style="font-family: georgia,serif;" href="mailto:gsaucr@yahoo.com" target="_blank">gsaucr@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Graduate Student Association</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">203 Commons</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">University of California Riverside</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Riverside, CA 92521</span>
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