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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">T<span style="color:black">he 9th International IPM Symposium to be held March 19-22, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. The call for session proposals is below and the Symposium website address is <a href="https://ipmsymposium.org/2018/index.html"><span style="color:purple">https://ipmsymposium.org/2018/index.html</span></a> . The call for posters will be coming out at a later date.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">There will also be a special mini-symposium about pollinators during the symposium. You may already have been contacted about that, but if not, please let your colleagues and stakeholders know about it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Please circulate this information to your colleagues and stakeholders who might be interested in attending the Symposium.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Thank you!</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Rosemary Hallberg</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Communication Director</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Southern IPM Center</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">1730 Varsity Drive, Suite 110</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Raleigh, NC 27606</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="tel:919-513-8182" target="_blank">919-513-8182</a></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="610" height="634" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:F66663F5-6C4F-41D3-B540-289ACAB342B1"></span></p></div></body></html>