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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="color:black">The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) invites applications from
<b>graduate students and post-doctoral researchers for the 2017 John W. Wells Grants-in-Aid of Research Program</b> 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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="color:black"> 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 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=" target="_blank">
www.pricollectionsdatabase.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="color:black"> Applications should include a brief (one page)description of the research project, a budget justification and a letter of recommendation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="color:black"> <b>Application deadline is February 15, 2017.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;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" target="_blank">gpd3@cornell.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Leslie L. Skibinski<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Collection Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paleontological Research Institution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1259 Trumansburg Road<o:p></o:p></p>
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