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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt">SPNHC Annual Meeting Travel Grants Available<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Application Deadline: January 31, 2025, Close of Business (COB) Your Local Time</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) is offering travel grants for the 2025 SPNHC</span><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt">
</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Annual Meeting, <a href="https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/travel-grants">
https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/travel-grants</a>. Applicants must be members of the Society or apply for membership before the application will be accepted. While any SPNHC member may apply, preference will be given to students (undergraduate or graduate) and emerging
professionals, focused on the physical care, management, or preservation of natural history collections. Preference will also be given to applicants presenting at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">SPNHC members from the following countries are strongly encouraged to apply—Central and South America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">The 2025 SPNHC conference will be held in Lawrence, KS, May 27-31, 2025. Visit
<a href="https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/">https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/</a> for additional information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt">General Information<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">For general enquiries about the annual SPNHC Annual Meeting Travel Grant program or to submit completed applications, contact Elise V. LeCompte, Chair, SPNHC Travel Grant Program Subcommittee, Florida Museum
of Natural History, <b><a href="mailto:lecompte@flmnh.ufl.edu"><span style="font-weight:normal">lecompte@flmnh.ufl.edu</span></a><span style="font-weight:normal">, 352-273-1925.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Elise V. LeCompte<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Registrar and Coord. for Museum Health & Safety<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Florida Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">1659 Museum Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Gainesville, FL 32611-7800<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">TEL: 352-273-1925<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">www.flmnh.ufl.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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