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	<strong>Join Us on Linkedin</strong></p>
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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}LinkedIn-Logo.png" style="float: left; width: 250px; height: 71px; " />Au Sable has a <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3881753&amp;goback=%2Egmp_3881753">LinkedIn group page</a>, and we want you to join!&nbsp; Joining the Au Sable group&nbsp;page gives you the opportunity to network with and view jobs postings from other Au Sable alumni.&nbsp;&nbsp;For employers, it also gives you the opportunity to post jobs for Au Sable alums.&nbsp; And Au Sable also will be posting jobs to the group page as they come to us.&nbsp; This is one other way that you can tap into the great people you meet at Au Sable and forge a community devoted to engaging Christian environmental stewardship.</p>
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	For those unfamiliar with <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/">LinkedIn</a>, it is an online, professional networking tool that allows you to connect to colleagues, classmates, and friends.&nbsp; Through LinkedIn, you create a professional profile that details your academic background and experience and allows other people you&rsquo;re connected with to keep up with your professional work.&nbsp; It also allows you to see if anyone within your network is connected to a person you may wish to get to know in order to further your networking opportunities.&nbsp; You may also connect to group pages, such as the <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3881753&amp;goback=%2Egmp_3881753">Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies group page</a>, to find a community of people within a particular interest area.</p>
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	<strong>Abbie Schrotenboer Accepts Job at Trinity Christian College</strong></p>
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	Congratulations to Abbie Schrotenboer (Au Sable Grad Fellow &rsquo;07-&rsquo;10) who recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Biology at <img alt="" src="{filedir_5}Abbie-Schrotenboer-1.jpg" style="float: right; width: 225px; height: 189px; " />Trinity Christian College.&nbsp; Abbie recently completed her PhD in the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University.&nbsp; Her dissertation was on &ldquo;Prairie Grasses for Biofuels and Ecological Restoration: Modifications to native species and their place in human-altered landscapes&rdquo; (See Abbie in one of her big and little blue stem research plots on right). &nbsp;Abbie served as an Au Sable Graduate Fellow at Michigan State from 2007-2010, co-leading the MSU group from 2008-2009.&nbsp; Read more about our <a href="http://www.ausablegradfellows.weebly.com/">Au Sable Graduate Fellows</a>.</p>
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	<strong>Support Au Sable as You Surf the Web</strong></p>
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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}Goodsearch.jpg" style="cursor: default; float: left; width: 250px; height: 80px; " />Au Sable&rsquo;s newly created&nbsp;<a href="http://www.goodsearch.com/">GoodSearch</a>&nbsp;account allows you to contribute to Au Sable simply by searching the web.&nbsp; GoodSearch is a search engine powered by Yahoo! that donates 50% of its advertising revenue to charities.&nbsp; Simply go to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.goodsearch.com/">www.goodsearch.com</a>&nbsp;and type in &lsquo;Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies&rsquo; under &lsquo;Who Do You GoodSearch For?&rsquo; and start searching.&nbsp; For people using Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox, we recommend downloading the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/">GoodSearch toolbar</a>&nbsp;for your web-browser as well.&nbsp;GoodSearch raises money through advertising space, and they estimate that each search generates around $.01 for the organization.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s raining pennies on Earth Hall when you search.</p>
