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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">c2b2 <c2b2@colorado.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 3:43 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>c2b2 <c2b2@colorado.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>C2B2 2017 REU Program - Application period still open! <o:p></o:p></span></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!!!!!
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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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Join C2B2 in the Rocky Mountains this summer for the 9<sup>th</sup> annual Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (C2B2 NSF/REU). The program will run May 20 to July 29, 2017!
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<p class="MsoNormal">Participants in this program will be researching biotechnology, bioproducts and biorefining through our research thrusts:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Feedstock Engineering, Plant Biotechnology and Crop Science</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Biochemical and Thermochemical Conversion</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Process and Product Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Lifecycle Assessment and Economic Viability</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">All Majors are eligible to apply!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><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" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Research
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">fundamental scientific challenges of renewable energy.
<b>Work </b>with research mentors at one of four <b>C2B2 </b>sites:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">University of Colorado Boulder</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Colorado State University</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow"">Colorado School of Mines</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><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 </b><a href="http://c2b2web.org/7JobsUnd_REU.php"><b>http://c2b2web.org/7JobsUnd_REU.php</b></a><b>, or contact
</b><a href="mailto:c2b2@colorado.edu"><b>c2b2@colorado.edu</b></a><b>.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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