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<span style="color:#111111">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#111111">I am delighted to share with you the news of two prestigious awards granted to two eminent UCR plant scientists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#111111">Professor Emeritus Natasha Raikhel was selected for the Charles Barnes Life Membership Award by the American Society of Plant Biologists. This award is given each year to one (or two) individuals who have made distinguished contributions
to research and service in plant biology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#111111">In addition, Professor Xuemei Chen was awarded the Martin Gibbs Medal for her outstanding research.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#111111">Please join me in congratulating both awardees for their achievements and their help to highlight UCR’s excellence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Be powerful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Katie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none">Director, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Distinguished Professor
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