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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Hello Biology Community,</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><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><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Bring your smartphone, tablet, or laptop to participate in the audience voting.</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><font color="#333333">Coffee, cookies and snacks will be served in 68-181 </font><font color="#b51a00">AFTER</font><font color="#333333"> the colloquium. </font></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">What is the Science Slam?</span></font></div><div><br></div><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 in a compelling way and </span><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;">compete to earn favor with audience members and with judges, 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 and multimedia producer and Boston producer of Story Collider. </span></div><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;"><br></span></div><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;">Please join us and cheer the </span><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">participants on. </span></font></div><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;"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Best,</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Rebecca Chamberlain</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="acumin-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div><br></div></div><br></body></html>