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<span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; text-align:center">UC Riverside’s EDGE Institute are offering nine <span style="font-family:Arial; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">$800 scholarships in 2020 </span>supporting graduate
students studying in areas related to climate and environmental change, paleoclimate, sustainability, and/or changes to modern or ancient ecosystems. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; text-align:center">The scholarships can support any aspect of the student’s research. Eligible applicants must be enrolled as full-time graduate students at UC Riverside studying in the fields of biological, chemical,
physical sciences or sustainability research. This year, priority for one of the awards will go to a student using UCR’s NRS sites and one award will prioritize conservation biology research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; font-weight:400">Scholarship winners will be announced on the first day of Fall Quarter instruction, October 1st, 2020.</span></b><br>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; font-weight:400">Please see the attached flier for further information and how to apply.</span></b></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px">Theresa Kane</span></font></div>
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