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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The Biology Undergraduate Committee is soliciting nominations from faculty for students to speak at the Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium on
<b>Thursday, January 29 from 12-5pm.</b> The Symposium is a means to honor top students for outstanding research effort. The committee will select students to submit an abstract and present a talk on their research.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">If you would like to speak at the Symposium, please contact your faculty supervisor and mentor, especially if you are working in a non-Biology faculty
member's lab. Any course 7, 5-7 or 6-7 students who are doing a UROP are eligible. Letters from your faculty supervisor and mentor are due to the Education Office (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(150, 96, 125);"><u><a href="mailto:stonej@mit.edu" title="mailto:stonej@mit.edu" data-outlook-id="6d3263a9-3a8c-4519-b937-0e2e58badac9" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">stonej@mit.edu</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">)
by <b>Monday, November 24. </b>Attached are the Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium booklets from 2025 for reference. Thank you.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Chancery"; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><i>Have a Blessed day.</i></span></p>
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