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2008 Calendar
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| Summer 2008: Resources for Protégés and Mentors |
 For information about the summer program, including the writing workshop, seminars, computer workshops and general logistics, please click here . |
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| Opportunity in Taiwan |
 COSMIC invites SOARS proteges and alumni to participate in the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC annual workshop which is in conjunction with the 4th Asian Space Weather conference. The travel dates are September 27 - October 5, 2008 and include site visits to
the National Space Organization Taiwan and Taiwan universities as well as tours of Taipei. To apply, please contact Raj Pandya. Please click here for more information. |
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| SOARS Alumna featured in New Voices |
SOARS alumna Julien Wang is featured in one of UCAR's web publications, New Voices.
To read about her research and her future plans, please click here.
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| Proteges celebrating Graduation |
 This spring, several proteges celebrated their graduation from undergraduate and graduate programs. In the picture: Ian Colon Pagan and Cecille Villanueva from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. SOARS supports proteges to succeed in school and provides financial aid for both undergraduate and graduate tuition. |
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Flying into a Hurricane: First-Hand Account |
 Shirley Murillo, a former SOARS Protégé, is a research meteorologist at the NOAA Hurricane Research Division in Miami, FL, and an expert on the behavior of hurricanes when they reach landfall. Murillo specializes in examining how hurricane wind fields change as they approach land, and as part of her job, she gets to fly directly into the storms she studies. Read her first-hand account here. |
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| The mission of SOARS® is to broaden participation in the atmospheric and related sciences by engaging students from groups historically underrepresented in science and preparing them to succeed in graduate school. These groups include Black or African-American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Hispanic or Latino, female, first-generation college students, and students with disabilities. SOARS welcomes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students. |
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