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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you to everyone who came to this year's Summit on March 11, and to those who didn't come, we hope you'll join us next year.
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Mark you calendars for Saturday, March 10, 2018.</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Videos of the presentations by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse</span></strong>, and
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Dr. Eric Chivian</span></strong>, who spoke on the topic of "Medical Models for Helping Us Understand Global Environmental Threats" are on the
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on the same page</a>.<br>
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Thank you to everyone who completed a Summit evaluation. They are being compiled now and, overall, are very positive. If you have any great ideas for presentations for next year's Summit, that you did not put on your evaluation, please send them to
<a href="mailto:mkerr@asri.org" target="_blank">Meg Kerr</a> or <a href="mailto:rfriday@rilandtrusts.org" target="_blank">
Rupert Friday</a>. <br>
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