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<p class="MsoNormal">Please see this fantastic Earth Month opportunity, below. A great way to meet colleagues and students with shared interests in sustainability while hearing some interesting talks …<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif">The Solar Energy Association (SEA) and the Faculty Advisory Committee on Sustainability (FACS) are jointly organizing “Energize Merced” - Saturday,
April 30, as part of the Earth Month activities. SEA seeks to Energize UC Merced students by providing an engaging, educational event including internationally known speakers in addition to UC Merced speakers. In partnership with SEA, FACS seeks to increase
collaboration on sustainability-related research within UC Merced. To support both of these goals, we are inviting you to listen to presentations, present and view posters, get a free lunch, and start a new collaboration! The full schedule can be found at
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif">Roger Aines</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif"> “Getting to Neutral”
</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",serif">(Roger has a PhD from CalTech and almost 40 years experience at Lawrence Livermore National Lab)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>will be free to ALL UCM students and staff (but you must register so we’ll get enough food)</b>.
<b>Register at</b>: <a href="https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=o-nf9HjKmEm3p-bQaS6s5m1L40gr-2lBmX6z95gge6lUME40TEFUWTFKWEYxWkxBRU1ONkhPQzdKTy4u" target="_blank" title="https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=o-nf9HjKmEm3p-bQaS6s5m1L40gr-2lBmX6z95gge6lUME40TEFUWTFKWEYxWkxBRU1ONkhPQzdKTy4u">
<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=o-nf9HjKmEm3p-bQaS6s5m1L40gr-2lBmX6z95gge6lUME40TEFUWTFKWEYxWkxBRU1ONkhPQzdKTy4u</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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