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<div><span style="color: rgb(95, 204, 61); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;">Enter SLA’s Undergraduate Essay Contest!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size:
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<span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;color:windowtext">Want to make a difference with your work beyond your undergraduate transcript? Submit to the SLA’s Annual Undergraduate Essay Contest!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
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<span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;color:windowtext">The winner will be awarded $500, a certificate of accomplishment, and a $300 travel grant to the AAA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, November 18-22, 2015.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
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12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;color:windowtext">Limit 25 double-spaced pages. Include a cover sheet with title of the paper; the author’s name; the author’s email address; the author’s college or university
affiliation; and the name of the faculty advisor to the paper.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;">Send to <a href="mailto:slaundergrad2015@gmail.com">
slaundergrad2015@gmail.com</a> as a .doc</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;"> or .pdf with your last name in the filename.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 14px;"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Questions? Contact Shalini Shankar by emailing </span></font><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><a href="mailto:slaundergrad2015@gmail.com">slaundergrad2015@gmail.com</a></span></font></p>
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