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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear colleagues: shall we look into this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Best, Haiyan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Haiyan Gao (she/her/hers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Henry Newson Professor of Physics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><physics-regularprimary-request@duke.edu> on behalf of "Chair, Department of Physics" <phy-chair@duke.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"Chair, Department of Physics" <phy-chair@duke.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 6:48 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"physics-regularprimary@duke.edu" <physics-regularprimary@duke.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>FW: Unique funding opportunity to advance fundamental physics with small-scale experiments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Catherine Mader <catherine.mader@moore.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 3:37 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>chair@phy.duke.edu <chair@phy.duke.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Theodore Hodapp <theodore.hodapp@moore.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Unique funding opportunity to advance fundamental physics with small-scale experiments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Department Chair,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am pleased to announce a unique opportunity to advance fundamental physics by funding small-scale experiments that explore physics which has typically been pursued at large-scale facilities (e.g., CERN, LIGO). This $20M offering is sponsored
by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Simons Foundation.
<b>Please alert researchers at your institution </b>who would like to pursue research along these lines to consider submitting a brief letter of intent prior to our deadline (31 October 2022).
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<p class="MsoNormal">Details of this one-time call are available on our <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.moore.org/article-detail?newsUrlName=request-for-applications-small-scale-experiments-that-advance-fundamental-physics__;!!OToaGQ!tH4fowMPeeJKRScFIu8q3nE-0co8ohwwZ_6KdDnfmDHidjOHr84qZy_Man0-2frd6Er_RWzH2JxjxNF1NpzIrMPLHVk$">
website</a>. Thank you for distributing this to faculty at your institution.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Theodore Hodapp, Ph. D.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#323130;background:white">Program Director, Science | </span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#387E7F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Gordon
and Betty Moore Foundation</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#323130;background:white"> | 650-213-3153</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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