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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Ayuthaya">Congratulations Miriam. Onward and upward!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">qsb-faculty <qsb-faculty-bounces@lists.ucmerced.edu> on behalf of Miriam Barlow <miriam.barlow@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 8:37 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"UCM QSB Faculty (qsb-faculty@lists.ucmerced.edu)" <qsb-faculty@lists.ucmerced.edu>, "qsb-grads@lists.ucmerced.edu" <qsb-grads@lists.ucmerced.edu>, "qsb-postdocs@lists.ucmerced.edu" <qsb-postdocs@lists.ucmerced.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[QSB-faculty] We are ranked!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody">For the first time, QSB appeared in US News and World Report ranked QSB in its best graduate programs in biological sciences. We got a #175 of 235 based on a survey of individuals at peer institutions. Lots
of places are not ranked, so being ranked is very good. <o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span><a href="https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2018/grad-programs-make-us-news-rankings-debut"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2018/grad-programs-make-us-news-rankings-debut</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">To put this in perspective, we rank somewhere below MIT, Stanford and Berkeley, and somewhere above
George Mason and Loma Linda. </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Marjorie is proud! Thanks everyone for doing great things. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Other institutions that got the same ranking are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Miriam Barlow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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