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For your consideration and invitation from HCURA to create a research community at MIT and become a Undergraduate Research Leader. Details and links the application are in the attached email below.</div>
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Joyce</div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I hope all has been well. I am reaching out on behalf
of </span><a href="http://www.hcura.org/" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Harvard College's Undergraduate Research Association (HCURA)</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">.
Every year, HCURA runs a National Collegiate Research Conference (</span><a href="http://www.ncrc.hcura.org/" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">www.ncrc.hcura.org</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">)
for undergraduates in January. Over the past four years, this conference has connected many avid undergraduate researchers and sparked many interesting conversations about how we might find more effective ways to form productive networks of college researchers
across the US.</span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 10pt; ">In the past few months, after being involved in conversations with
students from the University of Texas, Yale University, and Stanford University who are working on setting up their own undergraduate research associations, we have decided to launch the first series
<strong>Steering Committee Meetings for Undergraduate Research Leaders</strong> to take place alongside our national conference,
<strong>January 22-24th, 2015</strong>. The purposes of these meetings are to:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">help each other create and/or improve undergraduate research associations on our respective campuses</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">create an opportunity for undergraduates interested in research promotion to meet similar undergraduates from other universities</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">discuss ways in which different campuses might collaborate on research-related events</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">discuss goals and directions for the steering committee at the national level</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">We would like to invite 1-2 undergraduates from your university to participate. If you have students in mind who are motivated and interested in creating a research community on your
campus, we would love to reach out to them. We would appreciate it very much if you could pass along this interest form, <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/l9235g2" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">http://tinyurl.com/<wbr>l9235g2</a>,</font> to
these students. We will be accepting applications until <strong>December 15th, 2014 at 11:59 PM</strong>. These students would also be welcome to attend the <a href="http://ncrc.hcura.org/schedule2015/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">events
of our conference</a>. We would be happy to provide more details if you have further questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Thank you in advance for your help!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Best wishes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Mimi Yen & Velina Kozareva</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Co-Presidents: Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><a href="http://www.hcura.org/">www.hcura.org</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><a href="http://www.ncrc.hcura.org/">www.ncrc.hcura.org</a></span></div>
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<div>Joyce Roberge<br>
Undergraduate Program<br>
Biology Education Office 68-120<br>
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email: <a href="mailto:roberge@mit.edu">roberge@mit.edu</a></div>
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