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Hello to all CNAS GSAC faculty, </div>
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a mentor? If you would like to help mentor students interested in careers as professors and are from groups typically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), please apply to become one of our CUSP mentors.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Our applications open on December 1<sup>st</sup>,
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: blue;"><u><a href="https://forms.gle/293NRgLNxNaYRqr27" id="OWAf457ca07-95de-b4ff-7ab0-9552516b6fbb" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px; color: blue;">https://forms.gle/293NRgLNxNaYRqr27</a></u></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Career Mentoring of Underrepresented STEM Students for
the Professoriate (CUSP)</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> provides mentoring and career development to graduate students who are interested in
becoming professors and are from groups typically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). CUSP Scholars are also given the opportunity to become Near-Peer Mentors to our BB2P (Building Bridges to the Professoriate) Scholars during
the summer of the year they enter the CUSP program. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Building Bridges to the Professoriate (BB2P)
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">is a program that fosters collaboration between California State University, Fullerton and Fresno State University
with the University of California Riverside (UCR) to increase student engagement in undergraduate and graduate research in science and mathematics among underrepresented minorities (URM).</span></p>
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