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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:biohqstaff-bounces@mit.edu">biohqstaff-bounces@mit.edu</a>> on behalf of Rebecca L Chamberlain <<a href="mailto:chambe@mit.edu">chambe@mit.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 9:26 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>biofac <<a href="mailto:biofac@mit.edu">biofac@mit.edu</a>>, biostaff <<a href="mailto:biostaff@mit.edu">biostaff@mit.edu</a>>, bio-srs <<a href="mailto:bio-srs@mit.edu">bio-srs@mit.edu</a>>, biograds <<a href="mailto:biograds@mit.edu">biograds@mit.edu</a>>,
bioinstructors <<a href="mailto:bioinstructors@mit.edu">bioinstructors@mit.edu</a>>, biopdaf <<a href="mailto:biopdaf@mit.edu">biopdaf@mit.edu</a>>, bioundgrd <<a href="mailto:bioundgrd@mit.edu">bioundgrd@mit.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Biohqstaff] [Bio68staff] [Biostaff] Reminder about today's (9/26) Colloquium<br>
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<div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Today’s Colloquium is a “Science Slam”, same time, same place.</span></font></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Eight graduate students and postdocs have three minutes to present their research projects
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including Emilie Marcus, editor-in-chief of Cell and CEO of Cell Press; Ellen Clegg, editorial page editor of the Boston Globe and author of </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; box-sizing: border-box;">Chemobrain:
How Cancer Therapies Can Affect Your Mind;</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> and Ari Daniel, independent science reporter
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