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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>LabAspire<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thursday, November
6, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>4-6pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Commons 355<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.labaspire.org">http://www.labaspire.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><b><i><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Paid Public Health Microbiologist
Certification training opportunities are available for BS-level graduates in
county and city public health laboratories throughout California</span></i></b><b><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>. </span></b><b><i><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Some students may want to consider
this opportunity if not planning to enter a health professions program
immediately after graduation from UCR.</span></i></b><b><span style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>LabAspire
is a program created to address the critical shortage of qualified
professionals to direct California’s public health laboratories. These
labs serve the general public by screening newborns for various genetic and
congenital disorders; watching for disease-producing agents in food, humans,
and animals; and testing for new threats like West Nile virus, Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), avian influenza, and bioterrorism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Public Health Laboratory scientists
and LabAspire Program staff will provide an overview of the exciting career
opportunities available to students in public health laboratories and highlight
available training programs and funding opportunities for students. An optional
tour of a local public health laboratory will also be available to interested
students, faculty, and staff. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>LabAspire provides financial support
to qualified students seeking doctoral degrees from the schools of public
health at UCLA and UC Berkeley. LabAspire funds also support
post-doctoral fellows at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine and the California
Department of Public Health, Microbial Diseases Laboratory in Richmond. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>LabAspire is funded by the
California Department of Public Health and The California Wellness Foundation;
partners include UC Davis, UCLA, UC Berkeley and the California Association of
Public Health Laboratory Directors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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