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<pre style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) invites applications from <b>graduate students and post-doctoral researchers</b> for the 2016 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></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><span style="color:black">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></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><span style="color:black">PRI houses one of the largest collection of invertebrate fossils in North America, with particular strengths in Cenozoic mollusks from the Western Hemisphere and marine invertebrates on the northeastern U.S., especially the Devonian of central New York. PRI’s collection can be searched online at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.pricollectionsdatabase.org&d=AwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=fETJFcMXBI3t0fB_o86yd9dXRW055OIUTyBquVG-xrA&s=pUcPNUjO_OWjcdqTUsjn_mg_rGjiP9GW5d3_RbufEUw&e=">www.pricollectionsdatabase.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Applications should include a brief (1 page)description of the research project, a budget justification and a letter of recommendation.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Application deadline is February 15, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Please e-mail your application material to Dr. Gregory P. Dietl, Curator of Cenozoic Invertebrates at <a href="mailto:gpd3@cornell.edu">gpd3@cornell.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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