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<div class=""><span class="">Sorry to interrupt your Friday evening. Monday is a holiday, so we will not have a faculty meeting. The search committee for the Plant Resilience to Climate Change faculty position has submitted their recommendation. </span>Briefly,
they rank the four candidates who interviewed as:</div>
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<div class="">1) Sunil Raju<br class="">
2) Sassoum Lo<br class="">
3) Allie Gaudinier<br class="">
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They conclude that the 4th candidate, Amy Lanctot, is not suitable for this position at this time.</div>
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<div class="">The committee recommends that we move forward to request permission to negotiate with the top ranked candidate.<b class="">
</b><b class="">I would like to take a vote to approve requesting permission to begin negotiations with their top ranked candidate, Sunil Raju.
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<div class=""><span class="">I attach the committee summary of the candidates, which explains their recommendation. </span>You can see the full applications for each of the candidates here (with your UCR gmail login): <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1curs6k1Gn_9C_Gc7j4nmVE_CHObQHAGa?usp=sharing" class="">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1curs6k1Gn_9C_Gc7j4nmVE_CHObQHAGa?usp=sharing</a>
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<div class=""><span class="">I would like to discuss the other candidates on the list at a faculty meeting on Feb 26. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><b class="">Please vote on approval of initiating negotiations with Sunil Raju, their top-ranked candidate here: <a href="https://forms.gle/dY8rg2CGsGuFme69A" class="">https://forms.gle/dY8rg2CGsGuFme69A</a></b></span></div>
<div class=""><span class="">Please vote by noon on Tues Feb 20</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="">Thanks and have a good weekend.<br class="">
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<div>Patricia Springer<br class="">
Professor and Chair, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences<br class="">
University of California<br class="">
Riverside, CA 92521<br class="">
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<a href="mailto:pspringer@ucr.edu" class="">pspringer@ucr.edu</a><br class="">
bpschair@ucr.edu<br class="">
951-827-4413 (Chair's office)<br class="">
951-827-5785 (Faculty office)<br class="">
http://plantbiology.ucr.edu</div>
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