<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">FYI.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Alan D Grossman <<a href="mailto:adg@mit.edu" class="">adg@mit.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">class in Designing the First Year at MIT </b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December 20, 2017 at 1:10:54 PM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Janice Chang <<a href="mailto:jdchang@mit.edu" class="">jdchang@mit.edu</a>>, Rebecca L Chamberlain <<a href="mailto:chambe@mit.edu" class="">chambe@mit.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
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Please send info below to all of our undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs (and faculty too for informational purposes).
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<div class="">This class is open to undergraduates, grad students, and likely postdocs. </div>
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Department of Biology<br class="">
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<div class="">I am writing to share more information on the Designing the First Year at MIT Course.<br class="">
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There is an article on the MIT News site: <a href="http://news.mit.edu/2017/harnessing-meritocracy-of-great-ideas-mit-first-year-experience-1130" class="">
http://news.mit.edu/2017/harnessing-meritocracy-of-great-ideas-mit-first-year-experience-1130</a><br class="">
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<div class="">An article on the Office of the Vice Chancellor site: <a href="https://ovc.mit.edu/fye_course/" class="">
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<div class="">The course is Open to all enrolled undergraduate and graduate students, the design-intensive course will use the MIT First Year Experience as a way to teach different methods for how to examine an issue, understand it better, tease out what constituents
prioritize changing, design alternate prototypes, evaluate those, and iterate. This subject will offer instruction in the process of design while working on a specific design challenge: the potential to significantly improve and innovate on the MIT undergraduate
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