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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Computing Research Association (CRA) is interested in career development among students in computing fields. To that end, I encourage you to complete their survey, which
will take about 25 minutes to complete. Your contribution to this research helps us understand factors related to academic retention and persistence. The survey will end on
<b>January 31, 2024</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you are interested in completing the survey, please follow the link below: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Note that if you completed a survey for CRA in the past, you may have been contacted directly by CRA. If you have already completed this survey, please disregard this message.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Many thanks! Wish you all a Happy New Year!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">-Avinash.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#999999">------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Avinash Karanth</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#ED5C57">Director & Chair</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#ED5C57;background:white">Editor-in-Chief</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray;background:white"> – IEEE Transactions on Computers</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray;background:white">Joseph K. Jachinowski Professor in EECS</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Associate Editor – IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">330 Stocker Center</span><span style="color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Phone: 740-597-1481</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Webpage:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://oucsace.cs.ohio.edu/~avinashk"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">https://oucsace.cs.ohio.edu/~avinashk</span></a></span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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