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Hi all, I am sending one final reminder and plea - we hope you will consider initiating or renewing your INES membership for 2025. Please find my initial request copied below, and follow this
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Thanks again, and hope your new year is off to a good start!</div>
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Brent</div>
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Dear INES Affiliates:</div>
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<i>For those of you who have already joined or renewed your INES membership for 2025 - THANK YOU!</i></div>
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<b>For those who have not, we hope you will consider <a href="https://inesweb.org/join" target="_blank" id="OWA556c51fe-b144-334b-04f1-5306cff4c7f1" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://inesweb.org/join" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable">
joining or renewing</a>.</b> As always, membership in INES includes a subscription (print and/or online) to
<i>Engineering Studies</i> - and our membership rates have <u>not</u> increased! Our standard rate is still just $60, with a reduced rate of $45 for students, retirees, those on reduced income, and scholars from non-OECD countries. Our payment processing system
has also been updated to accept an even wider variety of payment methods.</div>
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Further, we worked diligently this year to demonstrate our commitment to supporting and growing the engineering studies community. Most notably, we ran a successful 2-day online
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workshop</a> in November with more than 60 participants and launched an annual <a href="https://inesweb.org/node/717" target="_blank" id="OWA6a294c8b-ee8f-8969-3cd0-945cab82bbb6" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://inesweb.org/node/717" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2">
best paper prize</a> for engineering studies scholarship. We were also pleased to see many INES-affiliated panels, sessions, and gatherings at conferences, and look forward to nurturing such activity in the coming year and beyond. The member fees we collect
go directly toward supporting both our journal and wider array of strategic initiatives.</div>
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To join/renew, simply visit this page and select the appropriate rate: <a href="https://inesweb.org/join" target="_blank" id="OWA4b2bab15-df26-8e44-efb2-48353205eb40" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://inesweb.org/join" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3">
https://inesweb.org/join</a></div>
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Thanks for supporting INES, and we wish you all the best as we approach the holiday season!</div>
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Brent K. Jesiek, Ph.D.</div>
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Co-Chair, INES</div>
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