<div dir="ltr">FYI- In case you are not on the REPS Lab listserv.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">UCLA REPS Lab</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:uclarepslab@gmail.com">uclarepslab@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 2:35 PM<br>Subject: Call for Omnibus Proposals<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:reps-lab-group@googlegroups.com">reps-lab-group@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_4044484014714756379gmail-docs-internal-guid-d1326f6a-7fff-a00c-3af6-6f86e3a0c678"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Greetings all,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">I am writing to invite you to propose a module for the fall  </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab Study</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. The aim of this multi-investigator effort is to field a carefully-crafted instrument on a diverse subject pool that draws on undergraduates from four campuses: UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Irvine, University of Missouri, and the University of Maryland. We anticipate starting data collection for the fall quarter by early April 2024. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you wish to compete for space on this omnibus study, please submit a brief proposal to the REPS Lab at </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="mailto:uclarepslab@gmail.com" target="_blank">uclarepslab@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> by </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Wednesday, February 21, 2024</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> This will provide us with the time needed to evaluate proposals and apply to UCLA’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). As Lab Director, I will submit a UCLA IRB application that will cover all the UCLA investigators involved in this data collection. UCLA investigators will be allowed to share data with their UCR, UCI, Mizzou, and UMD collaborators. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Graduate students who are interested should follow the protocol in the enclosed attachment.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Faculty who are interested in participating in this study should send a one- to two-paragraph description of their proposed experiment, a list of questions to be fielded, and an estimate of how much time you think your module will take. Proposals can assume that a set of common demographic variables will be collected for investigators.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you wish to volunteer your class for this purpose, please send us an email. We would be grateful for your help, especially during these challenging and uncertain times. The intellectual program of the REPS Lab depends upon the support of our colleagues. This includes those instructors who allow us to recruit from their courses, as well as the researchers proposing instrumentation. We are very thankful for your help in making this omnibus study a reality. Thank you for your time.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Efren</span></p></span><br></div>
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