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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">After a year of planning and work, SSHA Graduate Services is excited to launch our new website!
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<p><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://ssha-grad.ucmerced.edu/" title="https://ssha-grad.ucmerced.edu/"><span style="color:#6888C9">https://ssha-grad.ucmerced.edu/</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please visit our website for information and resources for current graduate students, prospective graduate students, and faculty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A special thanks to Yash and Arnold, our Student Success Intern, for the last 4 months finalizing details and being the experts in website updating! Thank you!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Monica<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase">Monica I. Garcia, Ph.d.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#092F44;text-transform:uppercase">Lead Graduate Services Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase">Interdisciplinary Humanities</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase">SSHA Graduate Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://ssha.ucmerced.edu/graduate">https://ssha.ucmerced.edu/graduate</a>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#999999">5200 Lake Road </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#DAAC00">|</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#999999"> Merced,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#EEEEEE;letter-spacing:1.9pt;background:#092F44">BUILDING THE FUTURE IN THE HEART OF CALIFORNIA
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