<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><div class="AppleOriginalContents"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/cvcsummerfellowship/home" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class=""></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I am sending this email with the hope that you will share our program information with talented undergraduate students at your institution.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.umcvc.org/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">The University of Michigan Samuel & Jean Frankel Cardiovascular Center</a>(FCVC) is pleased to offer a 10-week<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/cvcsummerfellowship/home" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the summer of 2022.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Program Description:</b> Each fellow will be matched, based on their interests, to a laboratory led by a FCVC faculty member. This collection of laboratories is involved in internationally recognized research in topics such as atherosclerosis, genetic cardiomyopathies, blood clotting disorders, cardiac arrhythmias, vascular biology, and heart failure. Fellows will be paid via bi-weekly paychecks at a rate of $15/hour for ten weeks of full-time work, starting the Tuesday after Memorial Day and ending the second week of August. The program includes scientific seminars, social events, and a two-day research symposium where fellows present their research to their peers and FCVC faculty and staff.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Program dates are subject to change pending the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic.<o:p class=""></o:p></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The application opens<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">TODAY, December 6, 2021 and closes Sunday, January 30, 2022</b>. I have attached our flyer to forward on to students you feel would be interested. We ask that you please forward this information to excellent undergraduate students interested in research, especially those that might be interested in pursuing biomedical research as a part of their long-term career plans.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">To access the application and learn more about the program, visit our website at<b class=""><a href="https://tinyurl.com/fcvcsurf" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">https://tinyurl.com/fcvcsurf</span></a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b> For questions, please email<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class=""><a href="mailto:fcvc-surf@med.umich.edu" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">fcvc-surf@med.umich.edu</a></b>.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thank you,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Kayla Griffey on behalf of FCVC SURF Program Director, Daniel Michele, PhD<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Daniel Michele, PhD<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Director, FCVC SURF Program<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Professor and Graduate Program Director<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Department of Internal Medicine<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">University of Michigan<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>