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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Subject: C2B2 Summer 2017 REU Program - Accepting Applications! </b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">January 3, 2017 at 12:26:48 PM EST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please forward this notice to your Departments, to allow for the greatest number of undergraduate students to apply for this opportunity!!!!!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Colorado Center for Biorefining and Bioproducts (C2B2) is a research and education consortia that mobilizes student academic researchers and industry partners for the advancement of renewable bioenergy technologies.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Join C2B2 in the Rocky Mountains this summer for the 9<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>annual Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (C2B2 NSF/REU). The program will run May 20 to July 29, 2017!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Participants in this program will be researching biotechnology, bioproducts and biorefining through our research thrusts:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">All Majors are eligible to apply!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Biology, Chemistry, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Crop Sciences, Economics, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Physics & MORE</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Research<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">fundamental scientific challenges of renewable energy.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Work<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>with
research mentors at one of four<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>C2B2<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>sites:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">University of Colorado Boulder</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Colorado State University</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Colorado School of Mines</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">National Renewable Energy Laboratory</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For more information, please see<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="http://c2b2web.org/7JobsUnd_REU.php"><b><span style="color:#954F72">http://c2b2web.org/7JobsUnd_REU.php</span></b></a><b>, or contact<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:c2b2@colorado.edu"><b><span style="color:#954F72">c2b2@colorado.edu</span></b></a><b>.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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