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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 30, 2026 8:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kiril A Streletzky <k.streletzky@csuohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fw: Soft Matter REU at Cleveland State University<o:p></o:p></p>
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addition to many physics' faculty, it involves faculty from CSU's Chemical and Biomedical Engineering department and a faculty from CSU's Mathematics and Statistics department. This year we also have two collaborative projects with Case Western Reserve University's
departments of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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https://artsandsciences.csuohio.edu/physics/soft-matter-reu-csu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Kiril A Streletzky <<a href="mailto:k.streletzky@csuohio.edu">k.streletzky@csuohio.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 28, 2026 7:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kiril A Streletzky <<a href="mailto:k.streletzky@csuohio.edu">k.streletzky@csuohio.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jessica E Bickel <<a href="mailto:j.e.bickel@csuohio.edu">j.e.bickel@csuohio.edu</a>>; Petru S Fodor <<a href="mailto:p.fodor@csuohio.edu">p.fodor@csuohio.edu</a>>; Nolan Holland <<a href="mailto:n.holland1@csuohio.edu">n.holland1@csuohio.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Soft Matter REU at Cleveland State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As many of you know, we are running an interdisciplinary REU site at Cleveland State University (CSU) "Synthesis, Assembly, and Characterization of Soft Matter".
It is run from the CSU's Physics department, but in addition to the physics faculty it involves many faculty from CSU's Chemical and Biomedical Engineering department and a faculty from CSU's Mathematics and Statistics department. This year we also have two
collaborative projects with Case Western Reserve University's departments of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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https://artsandsciences.csuohio.edu/physics/soft-matter-reu-csu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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