<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Department of Geography and Environmental Systems welcomes applications for UMBC&#39;s<b> </b><span>Postdoctoral</span> <span>Fellows</span> <wbr>for Faculty Diversity Program. The purpose of the Program is to support promising scholars who are committed to diversity in the academy and to prepare those scholars for possible tenure track appointments at UMBC. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who are members of groups that historically have been underrepresented in the professoriate. We greatly appreciate your assistance in distributing the attached advertisement to recent PhDs and students in their last year of doctoral work in geography, environmental sciences, environmental studies, and allied fields. To be eligible for the program, applicants should have received their PhD no earlier than July 1, 2014, or expect to receive their PhD no later than <span><span>July 1, 2017</span></span>.</span></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">The attached advertisement describes UMBC’s <span>Postdoctoral</span> <span>Fellows</span> <wbr>program. We encourage eligible students and recent PhDs to reach out directly to Dr. Maggie Holland,<span class=""> </span><a href="mailto:mholland@umbc.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">mholland@umbc.edu</a> or Dr. Dawn Biehler, <a href="mailto:dbiehler@umbc.edu">dbiehler@umbc.edu</a> , for additional information about the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems. Additional questions about the program overall may be directed to Dr. Autumn Reed <a href="mailto:autumn2@umbc.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">autumn2@umbc.<wbr>edu</a>.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">Thank you for your help finding great applicants for this program!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">Yours,</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">Maggie Holland</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></font></p></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Margaret Buck Holland, Ph.D.</div><div>Asst. Professor, Dept. of Geography &amp; Environmental Systems</div><div>University of Maryland, Baltimore County</div><div><a href="mailto:mholland@umbc.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">mholland@umbc.edu</a><br></div><div><a href="http://ges.umbc.edu/margaret-buck-holland" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ges.umbc.edu/margaret-buck-<wbr>holland</a><br></div><div><a href="http://mbholland.wordpress.com">mbholland.wordpr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