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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Dear Graduate Students,</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Are you looking to add some teaching experience to your CV?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="ui-provider"><span style="color:black">GS467-009</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Nanocourse:
SURF Journal Club is scheduled to begin in late May with a kick-off meeting. </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">This course was created to give graduate students the opportunity to organize, moderate, and evaluate undergraduates who are participating in Upstate’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
(SURF) program. </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">There will be an initial meeting for registered participants in late May (date/time TBD). You will meet with your undergraduate students during the week of June 3<sup>rd</sup>, when the program
starts. The program will meet weekly on Tuesday or Wednesday mornings and run for ~6 weeks until each SURF student has had a chance to present.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Your responsibilities will be to organize the journal club, moderate each meeting, and provide feedback to the students. If enough students register, there will be two organizers per journal club. If
you are interested, please contact Andrea Cifonelli in the College of Graduate Studies (<a href="mailto:cifonela@upstate.edu" title="mailto:cifonela@upstate.edu"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#0078D7">cifonela@upstate.edu</span></a>) to
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Best regards,</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Bruce K.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Bruce A. <span class="il">Knutson</span>, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Director of Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Codirector of Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program at SUNY-Upstate (PREP-Up) </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">SUNY-Upstate Medical University<br>
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology<br>
Weiskotten Hall<br>
Office 3223A, Tel. 315-464-8709<br>
Lab 3214, Tel. 315-464-8717<br>
<a href="mailto:KnutsonB@upstate.edu" target="_blank" title="mailto:KnutsonB@upstate.edu"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">KnutsonB@upstate.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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