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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello BMSC Grad Students,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please see the ABRCMS opportunity below. They need abstract reviewers and judges.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Hermila Torres<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Leah Dixon <<a href="mailto:ldixon@asmusa.org">ldixon@asmusa.org</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Subject: New ABRCMS Student Opportunities</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Date: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">February 10, 2022 at 5:19:09 AM PST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">To: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">"<a href="mailto:emmaw@ucr.edu">emmaw@ucr.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:emmaw@ucr.edu">emmaw@ucr.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light"">As a past ABRCMS judge, you can appreciate the importance of students presenting research to develop their skillset as scientists. At the in-person ABRCMS, there are abstract
eligibility requirements that restrict some students who could benefit from participation in ABRCMS. To address this, ABRCMS is launching the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://abrcms.org/index.php/symposium-home"><b><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light";color:#0563C1">ABRCMS
ePoster Spring Symposium for Emerging Scientists</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light""> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light"">for selected high school students (who’ve conducted formalized
research), community college students and first-year undergraduates to present research in one of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://abrcms.org/index.php/present-at-abrcms/scientific-disciplines"><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light";color:#0563C1">12
ABRCMS disciplines</span></a><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light"">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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scientists to sign up to be<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><a href="https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=A2vijUeuKEq5zU0LQALVn1U0BhJJb1FBin8n0uOgeMhUMVZZN1lMTTdaMjBTUDQ3WFc2SDVVODVFRC4u"><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light";color:#0563C1">abstract
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light"">Would you be able to pass along these opportunities to your students and communities?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt"><i><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light"">Please note:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><a href="https://abrcms.org/"><i><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light";color:#0563C1">ABRCMS 2022</span></i></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light""> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-family:"Roboto Light"">is
scheduled to take place Nov. 9-12 in Anaheim, CA. Additional details will be available Spring 2022.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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