<div dir="ltr"><br>Please let me know if you are/ have a PhD student graduating in 2021 who would like to be one of the five nominees for this program.<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As you may know, Dean Zatz and I were recently awarded an NSF grant entitled “The AGEP California Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Alliance to Increase Underrepresented Minority Faculty in STEM”. It is a collaborative award with UCSB
as the lead institution, and ourselves along with CSU Fresno and CSU Channel Islands. The public abstract is attached, but in a nutshell, we are developing an administrative model for broadening participation in the professoriate by better preparing under-represented
PhD students for CSU-like tenure-track jobs. The model is meant to be applicable to other UCs and CSUs, as well as other analogous state systems e.g. in Texas.
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<p class="MsoNormal">To develop and pilot the model, the grant will fund 5 Ph.D. students from UC Merced and 5 from UCSB. The funding will include support to attend a two-week summer institute at UCSB (June 24 through July 5, 2019), fellowship support for Fall
2019 to work with a CSU teaching mentor (CSU Fresno for UC Merced, mentors to be matched with chosen nominees), a one-semester dissertation fellowship, and additional travel funds for meetings and various events among the four campuses, and additional training
activities and mentoring here at UC Merced. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am writing to ask for nominations of students in your programs who may be interesting in participating. Our criteria are as follows:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<li class="m_6698252526149312760MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">US citizen PhD students in STEM disciplines broadly defined, i.e. any discipline supported by NSF including the social sciences.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_6698252526149312760MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Students who plan to graduate in Spring or Summer of 2021, and apply for academic positions that begin Fall 2021. These are likely to be third year PhD students now, given the norm
of five years to graduate.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_6698252526149312760MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Students who are interested in tenure track careers at CSUs and other similar institutions, albeit they also may be interested in tenure track positions at other types of institutions
as well.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_6698252526149312760MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Students from backgrounds that are under-represented in their discipline.<u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">By the end of this semester, we plan to identify five students to participate in the program. All we ask of you at this point is names of students who meet the above criteria, who you think might be interested. Please feel free to circulate
this email among your colleagues and students, and discuss the opportunity with them as needed.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our target date for nominations is October 1<sup>st</sup>, although we will consider nominations as they come in, and may continue to consider nominations after the target date as needed. We will reach out to each nominee to gather information
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<p class="MsoNormal">I will be available tomorrow during our first graduate group chairs meeting to answer questions, and I’m happy to answer questions over email as well.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best, Chris<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Professor Chris Kello<u></u><u></u></p>
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</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Miriam Barlow</div><div dir="ltr">Founding Faculty and 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></div></div></div></div>