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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">John W. Wells Grants-in-Aid of Research Program</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) invites applications from graduate students and post-doctoral researchers for the John W. Wells Grants-in-Aid of Research Program to support
collections-based research in any field of paleontology. The program awards grants of up to $500 to visit PRI’s collections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This grant honors John W. Wells (1907-1994), past President of the PRI Board of Trustees, a long-time geology faculty member at Cornell University, and one of the world's leading authorities
on fossil and living corals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The application deadline is February 15th of each year.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">PRI houses one of the largest collections of invertebrate fossils in North America, with particular strengths in Cenozoic mollusks from the Western Hemisphere and marine invertebrates of the
northeastern U.S., especially the Devonian of Central New York. PRI's Type and Figured collection is searchable online at
<a href="http://www.pricollectionsdatabase.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">www.pricollectionsdatabase.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For further information, see
</span><a href="http://www.museumoftheearth.org/research.php?page=888262"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.museumoftheearth.org/research.php?page=888262</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">,
or contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr. Gregory P. Dietl, Director of Collections<br>
Paleontological Research Institution<br>
1259 Trumansburg Rd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ithaca, NY 14850<br>
</span><a href="mailto:gpd3@cornell.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">gpd3@cornell.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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(607)273-6623 x17<br>
fax (607)273-6620<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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