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<p class="MsoNormal">Welcome back all and Happy New Year!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here are the first OCEES Announcements for 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]><b>Faculty Only</b>: Our semi-annual OCEES faculty meeting will meet during Ecolunch 16 January in Irvine 159 from 11:50 until 12:45.
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</span></span><![endif]><b>Faculty and students</b>: Attached is the OCCES 2019 Graduate Student Research Fellowship Program application available to your graduate students. The proposals are due on Wednesday January 30<sup>th</sup>. Faculty please be sure
that your students are aware of this and if they are eligible that they apply.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><b>All</b>: Please make sure that all members of your lab that want to be are on the OCEES listserve as this is the only way that we disseminate information. E.g. GRFP announcement. Direct them to the following url to subscribe https://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/ocees.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><b>All</b>: Ecolunch: - Willem Roosenburg, Professor and Director of OCEES. Environmental Education and Ecosystem Restoration: Assessing the effects of habitat creation and head-starting on turtle conservation.<o:p></o:p></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">President, Herpetologists’ League<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Biological Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">247 Life Sciences Building<o:p></o:p></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal">FAX: 740.593.0300<o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="http://www.ohio.edu/people/roosenbu/"><span style="color:windowtext">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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