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<b>SPNHC Annual Meeting Travel Grants Available</b></div>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Application Deadline: January 31, 2025, Close of Business (COB) Your Local Time</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) is offering travel grants for the 2025 SPNHC<b>
</b>Annual Meeting, </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: blue;"><u><a href="https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/travel-grants" id="OWA5258c808-e4d9-13a7-866d-4c7413f82893" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/travel-grants</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">.
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.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">SPNHC members from the following countries are strongly encouraged to apply—Central and South America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The 2025 SPNHC conference will be held in Lawrence, KS, May 27-31, 2025. Visit
</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: blue;"><u><a href="https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/" id="OWAa7c80dad-d7a9-9630-2e92-6bc424fdffdb" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> for
additional information.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt;">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,
</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: blue;"><u><a href="mailto:lecompte@flmnh.ufl.edu" id="OWA02679613-1e96-dcb2-f7a1-b9366f2e4045" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">lecompte@flmnh.ufl.edu</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">,
352-273-1925.</span></p>
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