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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Dear Department Chairs and Graduate Program Directors,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The Graduate School is seeking nominations for the Third Graduate Research and Scholarships Projects Day which will be on Friday, November 10, 2017. Nominations are due to the
Dean’s Office by Wednesday, August 30th<sup> </sup>. This will give the committee enough time to review and submit to the Graduate School before their deadline of September 1st. For detail information regarding the call for nomination process, please visit
<a href="http://www.uh.edu/grasp"><span style="color:windowtext">www.uh.edu/grasp</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Departments will nominate students based on the following categories:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Demonstration and Performance Sub-Section<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Posters Sub-Section<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Publications Sub-Section<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Talk Sub-Section
<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I would encourage a strong participation from the College of Engineering graduate students to show case their research projects.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#002060"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Suresh Khator<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Suresh K. Khator, Ph.D., P.E. Phone: 713-743-4205<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Associate Dean, College of Engineering Fax: 713-743-4214<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Professor of Industrial Engineering Email:
<a href="mailto:skhator@uh.edu"><span style="color:windowtext">skhator@uh.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">E421 Engineering Building 2
<a href="http://www.ie.uh.edu/faculty/khator"><span style="color:windowtext">www.ie.uh.edu/faculty/khator</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Houston, TX 77204-4008<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#002060">Houston, TX 77204-4008</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt">This message is sent on behalf of Dr. Bruce Jones for Academic Programs & Interim Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Attached you will find the GRaSP <i>Call For Applications</i> (attachment one) which will be distributed from the Graduate School to all graduate and professional students on the UH campus. We also developed a GRaSP<i> Road Map</i> (attachment
two) to be used internally as way to understand the GRaSP <i>Call for Application</i> process and programmatic steps leading to our UH GRaSP event in November. The remaining attachments (attachments three-six) are the applications that students who you encourage
to apply or students who apply on their own will need to complete and submit to the Graduate School.
<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Best regards, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dana M. Green<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Executive Administrative Assistant to the Vice Provost for Academic Programs</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Office of the Provost<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><style><!--
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