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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Dear Cullen College of Engineering Faculty,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: black;">You are encouraged to apply to the Internal Award for New Faculty Research Program. Please check
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><b><u>Eligibility Criteria</u></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> embedded in the call
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: black;">The deadline to submit proposals to the Division of Research is
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Our Office will assist you with your budget. The template is located at the link below:</span></p>
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<div class="x_elementToProof"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Please Forward your budgets for review by 5:00 pm on October 27, 2023 to</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: black;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;"><b>egrgrant@central.uh.edu</b></span></div>
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