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<p class="MsoNormal">OCEES upcoming events<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Tuesday, February 13<sup>th</sup> Irvine 159, BSGS Seminar Series. Zakee Sabree Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology Ohio State University.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Insect-Bacterial Symbioses or The Consequences of Intimacy</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Wednesday February 14<sup>th</sup> 11:50 Irvine 159, OCEES Ecolunch Anthony Gilbert, Biological Sciences. Thermal ecology of
<i>Urosaurus ornatus</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Friday February 2<sup>nd</sup> 11:50 Porter 104 PBIO Seminar.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Jared Westbrook, Director of Science at the American Chestnut Foundation. Restoration of American Chestnut: A Marriage of Breeding and Biotechnology</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Wednesday February 21<sup>st</sup> 11:50 Irvine 159, OCEES Ecolunch. Don Cerio. Biological Sciences. Eyes, orbits, and visual fields: soft-tissue reconstruction in dinosaurs and
their relatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Registration for Student Research Expo is open. Due to the overwhelming number of students last year there are rumors of a cap in the number of posters that will be accepted this
year. Take home message is to have your students register ASAP to make sure they get a slot. More info and registration material</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;color:#362D2E"> at
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><a href="https://ohio.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db16a123a2bbcb0732e1b3a8a&id=00f1af915f&e=fdee6bec2e"><span style="color:#00694E">www.ohio.edu/studentexpo</span></a><span style="color:#362D2E">.
Registration ends on February 28<sup>th</sup>. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;color:#362D2E">Shawn Kuchta is the new assistant director OCEES unanimously approved by the board. Duties to begin 1 July 2018. Congrats!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Willem<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Willem M Roosenburg<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Biological Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ohio University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Athens, Ohio 45701<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Office: 740.593.9669<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mobile: 740.503.4983<o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="http://www.ohio.edu/people/roosenbu/"><span style="color:blue">http://www.ohio.edu/people/roosenbu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."<br>
-- Gandalf, Fellowship of the Ring<br>
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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without loss of<br>
enthusiasm."<br>
--Sir Winston Churchill<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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