<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Dear Visualization Community, </span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">VIS Summer Camp is an annual event that promotes a peer support and mentoring group that helps to develop </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">junior faculty</span></span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> without tenure whose research area spans visualization. This experience provides a unique mentoring opportunity that </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">complements</span></span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> the available resources to faculty who are starting to navigate the world of academia and </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">aids their transition</span></span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> from graduate school or postdoctoral positions to the following career stages.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">The camp is designed as a two-year event aimed at taking a small group and developing a sense of camaraderie and belonging to support retention. The second year is focused on more intensive development of crucial milestones toward success, such as developing  NSF CRII and CAREER, DOE ECRP, or DOD YIP proposals. We accept a small cohort of participants and organize a retreat with intense discussions and collaborations over two days. </span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">We've just started recruiting the next 2-yr cohort. Pre-tenure faculty at research-focused institutions in North America who identify as visualization researchers are eligible to apply. </span><span style="background-color:transparent">If you're interested, please fill out this form: </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScS9_0bfts0JXqxoJ8GiV7v07aSyHTKUEW9Q5s68yGdAOyRPQ/viewform" style="background-color:transparent">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScS9_0bfts0JXqxoJ8GiV7v07aSyHTKUEW9Q5s68yGdAOyRPQ/viewform</a></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">More info about past camps: <a href="https://vissummercamp.github.io">https://vissummercamp.github.io</a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></span></p><div><i>Sincerely</i>, </div><div>Lace Padilla, Arvind Satyanarayan, Joshua Levine, Kristi Potter, and Remco Chang</div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#999999"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lace M. K. Padilla, Ph.D. </span></font></div><div><div><font color="#999999"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Assistant Professor, <a href="http://cogsci.ucmerced.edu/" target="_blank">Cognitive and Information Sciences</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#999999"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California Merced</span></font></div></div><div><font color="#999999"><a href="http://Lacepadilla.com" target="_blank">Lacepadilla.com</a></font></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>