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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>You may remember that we raised a little bit of money at the
last meeting, which the SIGCIS Executive Committee decided to earmark for
support of graduate students presenting at the meeting. We’d originally
decided to limit this to official SIGCIS sponsored panels, but unfortunately
our grad-student heavy panel was rejected despite being a very strong proposal.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>So we decided to broaden things out and offer our tiny $600
fund as support to any existing SIGCIS members who are graduate student and
presenting at SHOT. It seems from the program that there are a decent number of
such people. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The amount of money involved is quite small (max $300 per
person, but very probably less) so it seemed excessive to charter a new
committee and force people to submit a fancy application form. On the other
hand it would be arbitrary for us to pick people without information on other
funding sources (including SHOT), etc. So our stroke of genius was to get the
main SHOT committee for graduate student funding to agree to make decisions on
additional funding based on the mass of information you already supplied and
their knowledge of how much money they already awarded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If you are interested, please email me and say so by August
22<sup>nd</sup>. YOU HAVE TO DO THIS EVEN THOUGH YOU ALREADY FILLED THE FORM IN
FOR SHOT. However you don’t need to send any other info. I will
then collate the names, and assuming there are more than two people interested
I will pass them onto the main SHOT grad student travel grant committee so they
can figure out who gets what.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(If for some reason you didn’t apply for the SHOT
money then let me know anyway and I’ll figure out what to do).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We’ll be aiming to raise more money at the meeting to
pay for next year’s travel assistance, including a continuation of last
year’s successful book auction and our traditional passing of the money
bowl. Thanks to all those who contributed in DC.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p>
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