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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject: MIT's Science Policy Initiative (SPI) 2020 Congressional Visit Days Application Open</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">January 17, 2020 at 11:16:31 AM EST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica">We would like to inform your department that MIT's Science Policy Initiative (SPI) is now accepting applications for our 2020 Congressional Visit Days. The trip is intended for graduate
students and postdoctoral scholars but undergraduates may also apply. If you would please send the following information to your students and postdocs we would appreciate the help in advertising this event. Please let us know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*** Application Deadline: February 10th at 5:00 pm ***</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Are you interested in meeting with your congressional representatives in DC to advocate for federal science funding? Apply for MIT’s Science Policy Initiative Congressional Visit
Days (CVD) 2020! This year’s trip to DC is scheduled for March 23rd and 24th. Through a seminar series here at MIT in advance of the trip and a one-day science policy crash course with the MIT Washington Office on March 23rd, you will learn how to schedule
and lead constituent meetings with your Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill to discuss the future of science and science funding with our nation's lawmakers. Your constituent meetings will take place on March 24. No prior experience with policy or
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Apply now - space is limited! The trip is open to all MIT undergraduate*, graduate students, and postdocs. The application deadline is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>February
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Apply here:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://spi.mit.edu/cvd"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple">spi.mit.edu/cvd</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Contact Lucy Hu (<a href="mailto:lucyhu@mit.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">lucyhu@mit.edu</span></a>) or Elizabeth Shoenfelt Troein (<a href="mailto:shoen@mit.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">shoen@mit.edu</span></a>)
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