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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Please encourage you past and coming REU students, as well as current undergraduate and graduate students to apply to attend this symposium with travel and housing paid.
<div>Bao-An<br>
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<div id="divRpF912899" style="direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Kindt, James [jkindt@emory.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 30, 2016 2:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bao-An Li<br>
<b>Subject:</b> student STEM symposium at Emory University<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Dear Dr. <span>Li</span>,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">I am writing to you from Emory University to alert you to an opportunity for students who have participated in your REU program at <span>Texas A&M
</span>, as well as other undergraduate and graduate students who have had research experiences in your program.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">The Third Annual Emory University-Laney Graduate School STEM Research and Career Symposium will be held September 18-20, 2016 at the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta.
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</span></span><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Full travel and housing scholarships available</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> for underrepresented students. Last year 60% of student attendees received full travel awards and another 10%
received partial travel awards.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Event is for undergraduates AND graduate students, and their mentors.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Student research presentations, career development workshops and social events.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Free application and registration.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Please encourage your best students
<b>(graduate and undergraduate)</b> to apply to attend, and I hope that you’ll consider joining them. S<span style="color:black">tudents from underrepresented groups (racial minorities, disabled students and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds)
will be eligible to apply for travel awards that will provide for their travel and housing.
</span><b>We also invite you to attend together with your student(s).</b> <span style="color:black">
Full information is available on our website (</span></span><a href="http://www.gs.emory.edu/STEM" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">http://www.gs.emory.edu/STEM</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">)</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:black">.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">
Details of the conference are summarized below.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">A premier research conference for undergraduates interested in learning about PhD, MD/PhD or postbaccalaureate programs; graduate students contemplating postdoctoral training; and the advisors of these students.
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Two <span style="color:black">days of shared research presentations, networking and mentoring.
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:black">Interactions with Emory research faculty mentors, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:black">A round table discussion for faculty and program staff attendees with a group of Emory faculty</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.25in"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:black">Please distribute the attached information to your undergraduate and graduate students, who may apply directly through our website
</span><a href="http://www.gs.emory.edu/STEM" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">http://www.gs.emory.edu/STEM</span></a><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black">
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">and to your colleagues in the STEM disciplines at
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:black">. The general application deadline is May 1<sup>st</sup>, 2016. (A limited number of spots will be held open for students whose
<u>first</u> research experience is in the summer of 2016, who will be eligible for a second deadline of August 1, 2016). A committee of Emory training faculty will review abstracts to select participants and travel awardees.
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Due to the success of recent years' symposia and the restricted number of attendees, we expect competition for acceptance to be spirited.
<b>Only abstracts that report outcomes/results </b></span><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">will be competitive</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">.</span><span>
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:black">Awardees will be notified by mid-June or late August for the two deadlines. Up to ten students will be selected from the submitted abstracts to present a platform talk, and
<b><i>their advisors will also receive a travel award</i></b> if necessary. All remaining student participants will be expected to present a poster on their research.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:black">Mentors who write letters of reference for their students will be notified by e-mail whether or not the application was successful. At that time mentors will also
receive information about how to register to attend with their students if they wish to do so. If you have any questions, please e-mail us at
</span><a href="mailto:stem.symposia@emory.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">mailto:stem.symposia@emory.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:black">.
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">We look forward to hearing from you and your students.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Sincerely yours,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">James Kindt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Professor of Chemistry</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Co-chair of 2016 Emory-LGS STEM Symposium</span></p>
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<div>James Kindt</div>
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<div>Professor of Chemistry</div>
<div>Emory University</div>
<div>1515 Dickey Drive</div>
<div>Atlanta, GA 30322</div>
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<div>Emerson E521</div>
<div>jkindt@emory.edu</div>
<div>404-712-1817</div>
<div>http://www.chemistry.emory.edu/faculty/kindt/</div>
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