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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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<b><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400">Sincerely,</span></b></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:8pt; color:rgb(114,50,173)">Theresa Kane</span></b></i></p>
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<i><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:8pt; color:rgb(114,50,173)">EDGE Institute</span></b></i></p>
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