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<div style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The UC Merced Grad</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic">SLAM</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">!
 Qualifying Round is on Thursday, March 14th starting at 3:15pm in COB2 - 140. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome and encouraged to attend the competition! Find below a full list of competitors: </span></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><b>Session A Starting at 3:15pm</b><br>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" width="220" style="height:16pt;width:165pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Lorraine Ramos</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" width="279" style="width:209pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Interdisciplinary Humanities</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Anh Diep</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Quantitative and System Biology</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Abdul Zamani</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Candace Cole</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Quantitative and System Biology</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Carmen Kho</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Psychological Sciences</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Swadha Singh</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Quantitative and System Biology</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Ketika Garg</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Cognitive and Information Sciences</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Ali Hassanzadeh</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Environmental Systems</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Kuntal Talit</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Physics</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Jourjina Alkhouri</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Quantitative and System Biology</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Zachary Petrek</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Chemistry and Chemical Biology</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Stefanie Helmrich</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Environmental Systems</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Craig Ennis</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Quantitative and System Biology</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Mohammadkazem Ebrahimpour</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Electrical Engineering and Computer Science</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Sabah Ul-Hasan</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Quantitative and System Biology</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Sona Garsevanyan</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Quantitative and System Biology</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><span style="font-size:12px"><b>Session B Starting at 5:00pm</b></span></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Mohammad R. Vazirisereshk</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Mechanical Engineering</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Zahra Goliaei</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Public Health</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Shayna Bennett</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Applied Mathematics</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Edgar Perez-Lopez</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Mechanical Engineering</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Christine Hoffman</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Applied Mathematics</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Daniel Sanchez-Garrido</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Mechanical Engineering</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Jordan Collignon</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Applied Mathematics</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Karen Mohammadtabar</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Mechanical Engineering</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Joshua Semerjian</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Interdisciplinary Humanities</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Genevieve Mullins</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Quantitative and System Biology</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Rimei Chen</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Mechanical Engineering</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Jared Stewart</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Applied Mathematics</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Arash Khajeh</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Mechanical Engineering</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Melanie LeGro</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Quantitative and System Biology</font></td>
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<td height="21" class="m_6547689802440966130xl66" style="height:16pt"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Jacob Rafati</font></td>
<td class="m_6547689802440966130xl66"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size:12px">Electrical Engineering and Computer Science</font></td>
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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>