<div dir="ltr">Register for gradSLAM!  now!<div><br></div><div>This is a valuable networking opportunity that has helped prior students get amazing jobs (post your talk to Linkedin), and it also helps you get ready for your PhD defense and postdoc recruitment talks.  You can also win money!</div><div><br></div><div>Grad students with exciting projects please register!</div><div>Faculty, please encourage students to participate!  This is a worthwhile opportunity!</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_7024508753161149686WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42">GradSLAM! Registration Deadline</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42">February 28, 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001QPV-BRBwAGOPXUGVtZT1OzvSJBiThqFFz-elS5V_ucj4eKCy81dCf_Be5R_kSnhDoNcPVjH2df3b8cq-_FLpQgIPeqMD0noBjRLYRcstFqzZZY-MCG4cl9M0hzsGxfo5PdF6Lb8fvO7q3bsvMbXZ5STpuojQXiP1G_itTxFLAFbP0EF8LS1BwBWQzu9VxaRyGvvlQqKlzO11VziH6mblDQ==&c=mgBRCuXUMLjBypVUwE9s3gv6LhhbbqQbGxdVBio8fw15y7ltelvLWQ==&ch=k4mebMwh8eEGh5Q6g6Za5vw_6bD-LlNzETHvCOji40tMvgAdwCtyqA==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#4c4c4c;text-decoration:none">Just click
 here to register</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42">The Graduate Division is pleased to officially begin the countdown for this year’s GradSLAM! <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42">We know that UC Merced graduate students are working hard to find answers to fascinating questions, deep mysteries, and the world’s most pressing issues. The question
 is: can you<span class="m_7024508753161149686apple-converted-space"> </span><i>talk</i><span class="m_7024508753161149686apple-converted-space"> </span>about your research in a way that is engaging, exciting, and moves people to want to work with you, fund you, or employ you?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42">If that question is a little scary, you're not alone. A huge percentage of graduate students find it difficult to effectively communicate about their work. That's
 where GradSLAM! comes in.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42">The annual GradSLAM! competition is a chance for all our graduate students to take their work to another level. Each participating student will distill their research
 into three minutes and three slides that tell the story: What we don’t know, why it matters, what you did to find out, and where we go from here. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42">Along the way, you will learn visual and oral presentation techniques that will help you prepare for all the public speaking you must do in your graduate career
 and beyond—conference talks, dissertation defense, job talks, and more!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#403f42"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001QPV-BRBwAGOPXUGVtZT1OzvSJBiThqFFz-elS5V_ucj4eKCy81dCf_Be5R_kSnhDoNcPVjH2df3b8cq-_FLpQgIPeqMD0noBjRLYRcstFqzZZY-MCG4cl9M0hzsGxfo5PdF6Lb8fvO7q3bsvMbXZ5STpuojQXiP1G_itTxFLAFbP0EF8LS1BwBWQzu9VxaRyGvvlQqKlzO11VziH6mblDQ==&c=mgBRCuXUMLjBypVUwE9s3gv6LhhbbqQbGxdVBio8fw15y7ltelvLWQ==&ch=k4mebMwh8eEGh5Q6g6Za5vw_6bD-LlNzETHvCOji40tMvgAdwCtyqA==" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4c4c4c;text-decoration:none">Signing
 up for GradSLAM! is easy. </span></a><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001QPV-BRBwAGOPXUGVtZT1OzvSJBiThqFFz-elS5V_ucj4eKCy81dCf_Be5R_kSnhDoNcPVjH2df3b8cq-_FLpQgIPeqMD0noBjRLYRcstFqzZZY-MCG4cl9M0hzsGxfo5PdF6Lb8fvO7q3bsvMbXZ5STpuojQXiP1G_itTxFLAFbP0EF8LS1BwBWQzu9VxaRyGvvlQqKlzO11VziH6mblDQ==&c=mgBRCuXUMLjBypVUwE9s3gv6LhhbbqQbGxdVBio8fw15y7ltelvLWQ==&ch=k4mebMwh8eEGh5Q6g6Za5vw_6bD-LlNzETHvCOji40tMvgAdwCtyqA==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#4c4c4c;text-decoration:none">Just click
 here to register</span></b></a><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001QPV-BRBwAGOPXUGVtZT1OzvSJBiThqFFz-elS5V_ucj4eKCy81dCf_Be5R_kSnhDoNcPVjH2df3b8cq-_FLpQgIPeqMD0noBjRLYRcstFqzZZY-MCG4cl9M0hzsGxfo5PdF6Lb8fvO7q3bsvMbXZ5STpuojQXiP1G_itTxFLAFbP0EF8LS1BwBWQzu9VxaRyGvvlQqKlzO11VziH6mblDQ==&c=mgBRCuXUMLjBypVUwE9s3gv6LhhbbqQbGxdVBio8fw15y7ltelvLWQ==&ch=k4mebMwh8eEGh5Q6g6Za5vw_6bD-LlNzETHvCOji40tMvgAdwCtyqA==" target="_blank"><span class="m_7024508753161149686apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#4c4c4c;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#4c4c4c;text-decoration:none">no
 later Wednesday, February 28 at 5pm.</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Marjorie S. Zatz, Ph.D.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Vice Provost and Graduate Dean
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Professor of Sociology<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Graduate Division</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University of California, Merced</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5200 N. Lake Rd., Merced CA 95343</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="tel:(209)%20228-2408" value="+12092282408" target="_blank">209-228-2408</a>,
</span><a href="mailto:Mzatz@ucmerced.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">Mzatz@ucmerced.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Check out my latest book, co-authored with Nancy Rodriguez – <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Nightmares-Immigration-Policy-Families/dp/0520283066" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Dreams
 and Nightmares: Immigration Policy, Youth, and Families,</span></a> University of California Press, May 2015.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Miriam Barlow</div><div dir="ltr">Founding Faculty and Associate Professor<div>Chair, Quantitative and Systems Biology</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></div></div>
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