<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Carole Rifkind</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Carole@naturallyobsessed.com">Carole@naturallyobsessed.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:00 AM<br>Subject: Help your students consider a career in science!<br>To: <a href="mailto:bexec@mit.edu">bexec@mit.edu</a><br><br><br><div><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" style="width:678px;min-height:339px">
<tbody><tr><td><p><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Verdana">An honest and emotionally compelling hour-long documentary, the award-winning <a href="http://track.emarketingtherapy.com/c/1/baf951366dd4f8674dad21e7a627d9db19fe00676b55e940" target="_blank"><i>Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist</i></a>, helps students to understand the life of the scientist and to stimulate questions about the career choices that are ahead of them. As one audience member described the film, it gives “<em>a powerful sense of the beauty and reality of doing science – with a Hollywood ending</em>.”</span></span></p>
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</tr><tr><td style="text-align:center"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><strong><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Rob</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> took a postdoc on the way to a career in academia</span></span></span></td>
<td style="text-align:center"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:small">Kil</span></span></strong><span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:small"> became a consultant to the biotech and pharmaceutical industries</span></span></span></td>
<td style="text-align:center"> <strong><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Gabe</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> left the PhD program for a good job at a biotechnology company</span></span></td>
</tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Verdana"><b>7 More Days To Take Advantage of the Fall Special</b></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b></b></span><br>
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</tr><tr><td><p style="text-align:left"> </p><p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Verdana"><strong>Naturally Obsessed Spotlight on Students </strong></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana"><strong><br>
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<td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"><strong><br></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Matthew Engle</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> is a Fourth Year Graduate Student at SUNY Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York. He is interested in pursuing a career in technology commercialization. </span></span><br>
<br><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Verdana">In February 2009, he teamed up with the Center for Inclusive Education and the Graduate School Organization to present a screening of <b><i>Naturally Obsessed</i></b><span style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">. </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"></span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" style="width:678px;min-height:339px"><tbody><tr></tr><tr><td> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Verdana"><b>Why did you decide to plan a screening</b><span style="font-style:normal"><b> for your school?</b></span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Verdana">I thought it was a truly accurate portrayal of graduate school for scientists and that many of the challenges the characters faced were similar to my own. I wanted to share this movie with all the other students at my university working in science. We had over 100 attendees from the faculty, undergraduate, and graduate schools. The graduate students represented many departments ranging from biochemistry to ecology and evolution to the marine sciences.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> <b>What were some of the highlights? </b></span></span><b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Verdana">The event was able to touch students and faculty simultaneously, and gave both parties an important perspective into what mentor or student life may be like. Faculty have had the opportunity of being students, and through <b><i>Naturally Obsessed</i></b><span style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"> they can remember what it's like transforming into a professional. Alternatively, the film also gives students insight into what it takes to manage a top lab with several brilliant graduate students. We also got some thoughtful responses from the audience about the state of science funding and education. Finally, it provided everybody with some much needed stress relief! </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"></span></p>
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