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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Dear GSOE faculty, staff, and students,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">As you may know, hundreds of UCR donors, alumni, students, staff, and faculty will soon mark the successful completion of </span><a href="https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/01/27/uc-riverside-celebrates-campaign-completion-feb-18-20" title="https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/01/27/uc-riverside-celebrates-campaign-completion-feb-18-20"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#00006A">Living
the Promise, a $300 million comprehensive campaign</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">.<br>
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I’m writing to encourage you to consider registering and participating in one or more of the free, virtual </span><a href="https://giving.ucr.edu/celebrate-event-program"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#00006A">Campaign Celebration</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> events,
particularly “The Seeds of Promise Panel (The World-Shaping Power of Philanthropy),” on Friday, February 19, featuring our own Dr. Katherine Stavropoulos, and “Celebrating Excellence: A Toast to UCR” on Saturday, February 20.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">At the February 19 panel, Dr. Stavropoulos will be speaking about her exciting research on the
</span><a href="https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2018/12/04/so-cute-you-could-crush-it"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">neural underpinnings of cute aggression</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">, which is the urge to squeeze, pinch, or bite very
cute things. You can watch her Tedx-style talk, “Baby Yoda and Your Brain,” in advance of the event, and register for this, and the other celebrations throughout the week, below.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Watch
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmThU8kCBPA&feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">“Baby Yoda and Your Brain”</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext"><a href="https://giving.ucr.edu/celebrate-event-program"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Register</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
for UCR Campaign Celebration weekend<o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I would like to add my personal thanks to each of you who have contributed so much to the success of this effort, as well as to the many ways in which UCR continues to serve our students, grow our campus, and improve
our world through pathbreaking research.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to seeing you at the celebration.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Best regards, </span><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Louie Rodriguez<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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