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Dear Engineering Faculty,<br>
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Please see the message below and respond ASAP before JUNE 26 (Wednesday) by emailing me the requested materials with a copy to your department chair.<br>
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Make sure that you are really going to attend to avoid your department incurring pass through charges if you cancel.<br>
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Best regards<br>
Hanadi<br>
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DOR wrote:<br>
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"Dear Colleagues:<br>
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McAllister & Quinn alerted us to the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), which is the Department of Defense’s premier scientific meeting for scientific knowledge from military-unique medical research and development. The meeting takes place in
Orlando, FL from Monday August<br>
19 to Thursday, August 22. The total cost of attending the conference will be between $1,500 and $1,800.<br>
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This is an excellent opportunity for faculty to learn about unique medical needs of warfighters and meet program managers from the DOD. M&Q offered to introduce our faculty to relevant DOD program managers.<br>
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DOR is offering to provide 75% of funding for 3-4 faculty going to this conference with 25% provided by their college (you decide whether the college, the department, or the faculty should pay the 25%). Please ask interested faculty to send you a brief statement
of why this would be beneficial to them (max 250 words), their NIH or NSF biosketch, and current and past funding during the past five years if interested.
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To minimize the risk of last minute cancellation, if faculty who agreed to attend fail to go, DOR will not reimburse colleges for the 75% of the cost of attendance."<br>
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Rachel Knudsen<br>
Executive Director of Communications<br>
Cullen College of Engineering<br>
Engineering Building 2, Suite E311<br>
University of Houston<br>
Houston, TX 77204-4007<br>
713.743.4379 – riward@central.uh.edu
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