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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Dear CNAS Graduate Students, </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences is launching<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://cnasgrad.ucr.edu/cusp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">CUSP</a>,
Career Mentoring of Underrepresented STEM Students for the Professoriate, a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/09/02/diversifying-sciences" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">pilot
project</a> funded by the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ucop.edu/graduate-studies/initiatives-outreach/uc-hsi-ddi.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">UC-HSI Doctoral
Diversity Initiative (UC-HSI DDI)</a>. This project will recruit three CNAS doctoral candidates in 2020 to participate in the following: </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt">$4000 stipend to support summer research </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"></span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt">Membership in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.sacnas.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">SACNAS</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Please visit the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://cnasgrad.ucr.edu/cusp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">CUSP</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>website
or contact<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Laura.McGeehan@ucr.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">Laura.McGeehan@ucr.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for more
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Click on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://forms.gle/qiP7QSpH3fnQtf7d8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">this
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Regards, </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p>
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