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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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 <b>25 minutes</b> to complete. Your contribution to this research helps us understand factors related to academic retention and persistence in EECS. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The link to the survey is here:
</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#467886"><a href="https://cerp.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e42au8zqmjbYvVI/?id=ohio_eecs" target="_blank" title="https://cerp.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e42au8zqmjbYvVI/?id=ohio_eecs"><span style="color:#467886">https://cerp.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e42au8zqmjbYvVI/?id=ohio_eecs</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We sincerely thank you for helping our department.
<b>The survey ends January 27, 2025.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Avinash Karanth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#999999">------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;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="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">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="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;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="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;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="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;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, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;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; Email:
<a href="mailto:karanth@ohio.edu" title="karanth@ohio.edu">karanth@ohio.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;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:
<a href="https://www.ohio.edu/engineering/about/people/karanth">https://www.ohio.edu/engineering/about/people/karanth</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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