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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center">UC Riverside’s EDGE Institute are offering nine <span style="margin: 0px; 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="margin: 0px; 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="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; 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><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400">Please see the attached flier for further information and how to apply.</span></b></div>
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