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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">afternoon<span style="color:black"> CNAS faculty members,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Are you a STEM faculty member interested in becoming 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Application deadline: Sunday, January 14<sup>th</sup>, 2024.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://cusp.ucr.edu/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">https://cusp.ucr.edu/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://cnasgrad.ucr.edu/bb2p"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">cnasgrad.ucr.edu/bb2p</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Mentor Application:
</span><a href="https://forms.gle/293NRgLNxNaYRqr27"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">https://forms.gle/293NRgLNxNaYRqr27</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Career Mentoring of Underrepresented STEM Students for the Professoriate (CUSP)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Building Bridges to the Professoriate (BB2P)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Fidel Rivas</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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Student Services Advisor<o:p></o:p></p>
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CNAS Graduate Student Affairs Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="mailto:fidelr@ucr.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">fidelr@ucr.edu</span></a> | (951) 827-5688<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Plant Biology (PLBL) & Environmental Toxicology (ENTX)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="https://doodle.com/bp/fidelrivas/fidel-rivas-bookable-calendar">https://doodle.com/bp/fidelrivas/fidel-rivas-bookable-calendar</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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