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Dear Users Group,<br>
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I include below a few brief but important updates/reminders.
Please take a moment to look them over and pass along the
information to anyone you think might find it useful.<br>
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1) <b>QCD Town Meeting</b>: HOUSING DEADLINE (Aug 14) IS RAPIDLY
APPROACHING! For housing and meeting details, please visit the
meeting web site: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="https://phys.cst.temple.edu/qcd/">https://phys.cst.temple.edu/qcd/</a><br>
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2) <b>GHP Dissertation Award in Hadronic Physics</b>: The APS
Topical Group on Hadronic Physics (GHP) recently initiated a
biennial Dissertation Award in Hadronic Physics. The nomination
deadline is OCTOBER 6th. Please see their web site for details:
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href="http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/dissertation/hadronic.cfm">http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/dissertation/hadronic.cfm</a><br>
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3) <b>UGBOD Charter Update: </b>The votes are in and both
updates (changing to a four-person Chairperson line and updating
the anti-discrimination statement) both passed by significant
margins (receiving well over 80% support). <br>
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4) <b>Acknowledgement of DOE funding: </b>The DNP recently
distributed a reminder of the importance of acknowledging federal
support. Details can be found here:<b> </b><a
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href="http://science.energy.gov/funding-opportunities/acknowledgements/">http://science.energy.gov/funding-opportunities/acknowledgements/</a><br>
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5) <b>JSA Initiative Fund Projects: </b>The UGBoD is currently
reviewing the 2015 requests, but I want to take this time to
remind you of a few programs that are currently active with
support from the 2014 Initiative fund:<br>
- Junior Scientist Travel Support (for graduate students and
postdocs): <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.jsallc.org/IF/IndexJSTF.html">http://www.jsallc.org/IF/IndexJSTF.html</a><br>
- JSA Promising Young Scientist (Preparing postdocs for
applying/interviewing for faculty positions): <a
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href="https://wiki.jlab.org/cugwiki/index.php/JSA_Promising_Young_Scientist">https://wiki.jlab.org/cugwiki/index.php/JSA_Promising_Young_Scientist</a><br>
- JSA Minority/Female Undergraduate Research Assistantship: <a
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href="http://www.jsallc.org/IF/2014/JL-Barbosa-2-Poster.pdf">http://www.jsallc.org/IF/2014/JL-Barbosa-2-Poster.pdf</a><br>
- Extra Child Care (ExCARE) Travel Support: <a
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href="https://wiki.jlab.org/cugwiki/index.php/JSA_Travel_Fund_for_Extra_Child_Care_%28ExCARE%29">https://wiki.jlab.org/cugwiki/index.php/JSA_Travel_Fund_for_Extra_Child_Care_(ExCARE)</a><br>
- JSA/JLab Sabbatical/Research Leave Support: <a
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href="http://www.jsallc.org/IF/IndexSS.html">http://www.jsallc.org/IF/IndexSS.html</a><br>
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These and many more programs are detailed on the CUG Wiki ( <a
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) and the JSA IF page ( <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.jsallc.org/IF/IFProjects.html">http://www.jsallc.org/IF/IFProjects.html</a>
)<br>
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