<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Dear postdocs and grad students, <br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Please join us on Tues., Sept. 25th at 2:00 PM for this seminar on proposal writing and evaluating. Tea will follow at 3:00 PM.  </font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Proposal Writing Seminar & </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Mock Review Panel Project Launch</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><i><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tuesday, Sept 25 2:00pm</span></span><span> </span>in the MMM Conference Room</font></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif">In this seminar, scientists with successful proposal writing experience will share some of their strategies, and will answer questions. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">In order to write a more successful proposal, it helps to understand the panel review process used in funding agencies. In an effort to give postdocs an opportunity to see "the other side" of this process, a<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Mock Review Panel Project</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>is being initiated.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Postdocs and grad students will be invited to write and submit a full proposal, and to serve on a mock review panel. The review panel will consist of the proposal writers and a senior scientist that will serve as the review panel moderator. </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:st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