<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hello Students Leaders,<br>
<br>
Happy New Year! We are excited to make you all aware of a wonderful
opportunity. On January 27th, MIT will hold it's Annual Diversity
Summit! If you attend, you will be able to meet, interact and engage
faculty, staff and peers around issues of diversity and inclusion. This
event is free for all MIT students and lunch will be served! Below you
will find detailed info and a registration link (walk-in's are welcome).
Please forward this information to your members and your peers. We
hope to see you there!<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt">Best,<br>
</span><font size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt"><b><br>
</b></span></font><span style="font-size:10.5pt">La-Tarri Canty, MSS<br>
Director of Multicultural Programs<br>
Assistant Director of Student Activities<br>
<a href="tel:%28617%29253-6189" value="+16172536189" target="_blank">(617)253-6189</a><br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue, W20-549C<br>
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139<br>
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</b>"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being"~<b>Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe<br>
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</span><font size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><b>Institute Diversity Summit – Diversity & Excellence Jan. 27, 2012<br>
</b></span></font><b><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>Students encouraged to register at: <a href="http://www.regonline.com/diversitysummit_reg" target="_blank">http://www.regonline.com/diversitysummit_reg</a><br>
</i></span></font><ul><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><b>No cost to attend – Lunch provided to registered attendees
</b></span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><b>Come for all of the program – or just part of the program
</b></span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><b>Registration encouraged but drop-ins welcome<br>
</b></span></font></li></ul><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Details:<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">8:45 am-3:30 pm<br>
Room 10-250 & select conference rooms<br>
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<i>With Opening Remarks from MIT President Susan Hockfield and comments
on Diversity and Excellence by MIT Executive Vice President &
Treasurer Israel Ruiz<br>
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<b>Keynote Speaker:</b> <b>Evelynn Hammonds, PhD<br>
</b></span><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i>Dean of
Harvard College, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of
Science and of African and African American Studies<br>
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<b>Panel Discussion: Diversity and Excellence<br>
<i>F</i></b><i>acilitated by Prof. Emma Teng, with Prof. Lotte Bailyn,
Prof. Edmund Bertschinger, Chancellor Eric Grimson, and Associate
Provost Wesley Harris<br>
</i><br>
</span><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Panel Discussion: Diversity and Excellence—Focus on MIT Undergrad, Grad, and Postdoc scholars<br>
</b></span></font><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>Facilitated by Bomy Lee Chung, with Eric Boyer, ’13; Alex Evans, ‘G; Laura Lopez, Postdoc Fellow; Sophie Ni, ‘G<br>
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</span></font></i><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b><i>Break-Out Sessions on:<br>
</i></b><i>Implicit Bias<br>
Cultural Awareness for more Effective Intercultural Communication at Work<br>
Impostor Syndrome<br>
Living Group Leaders<br>
</i></span></font><i><span style="font-size:12pt">Transgender 101<br>
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</span></font></i><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>Register Now >> <<a href="http://www.regonline.com/diversitysummit_reg" target="_blank">http://www.regonline.com/diversitysummit_reg</a>> </b></span></font><br>