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<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Portia Mira <<a href="mailto:pmira@ucmerced.edu">pmira@ucmerced.edu</a>><br>To: qsb-grads <<a href="mailto:qsb-grads-bounces@lists.ucmerced.edu">qsb-grads-bounces@lists.ucmerced.edu</a>><br>Cc: "UCM QSB Faculty (<a href="mailto:qsb-faculty@lists.ucmerced.edu">qsb-faculty@lists.ucmerced.edu</a>)" <<a href="mailto:qsb-faculty@lists.ucmerced.edu">qsb-faculty@lists.ucmerced.edu</a>>, Mike Rea <<a href="mailto:mrea2@ucmerced.edu">mrea2@ucmerced.edu</a>>, David Gravano <<a href="mailto:dgravano@ucmerced.edu">dgravano@ucmerced.edu</a>><br>Bcc: <br>Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:46:54 +0000<br>Subject: Lab Tours-8th grade campus visits<br>
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<div>Hello Fellow QSB Grads and Faculty,</div>
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<div>I have been recently contacted by the program director of Upward Bound, Mike Rea, who works for the Center for Educational Partnerships at our UCM location in Fresno. He works with youth (Jr High-High school) in mentoring them and helping the succeed in
pre college performance and ultimately in higher education. Mike has reached out to me because there will be larger groups (90-120) 8th grade students coming for a campus visit on various days (March 29, March 30 April 6 and April 27) and he doesn't wants
this ‘campus tour’ to be the typical campus tour that they will probably get when they are in high school. He wants the students to experience the campus in a more interactive and intriguing way. I would love to get these students a tour of my lab, but because
of the larger numbers, I am finding it challenging to this alone. </div>
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<div>I am looking for any grad students (with permission of their PI of course!) who would be wiling to volunteer ~ 30-45 minutes of their time ( most likely around 10:30AM) on any one of these days (Week of Spring break -March 29, March 30 and April 6, April
27) to give a brief 20-25 minute tour of their lab/facility to a group of ~10-15 students. If I can get enough volunteers, each student will have the opportunity to visit a real research lab and potentially peek their interest in science!</div>
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<div>Thanks guys for your time, I know how busy everyone is with the ‘never ending’ research, teaching, coursework. I appreciate you reading this email in it’s entirety. </div>
<div>If this is something you, and your lab, would be interested in helping me out with please email me directly (<a href="mailto:pmira@ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">pmira@ucmerced.edu</a>) with the days you are interested in helping out and we can coordinate further.</div>
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<div>Thanks again!</div>
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<div><font class="m_2116147658315361519Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue" color="#941751">Portia Mira</font></div>
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<div><font class="m_2116147658315361519Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue" color="#941751">Quantitative & Systems Biology Program</font></div>
<div><font class="m_2116147658315361519Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica Neue" color="#941751">University of California, Merced</font></div>
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<br></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Miriam Barlow<div>Associate Professor</div><div>University of California, Merced</div><div><br></div><div>209.228.4174</div><div><a href="mailto:miriam.barlow@gmail.com" target="_blank">miriam.barlow@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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