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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">From: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Hillary Ross <<a href="mailto:hross@mit.edu">hross@mit.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject: PREDOC: Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers info session at MIT Sloan</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"">November 13, 2020 at 6:45:43 PM EST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">MIT Sloan is participating in a collaborative effort to foster a diverse pool of talented applicants in research assistantship programs across the country. The goal is to foster diversity in PhD programs in Economics and Business, and eventually,
faculty. This is <b><a href="https://predoc.org/"><span style="color:#954F72">PREDOC: Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers</span></a></b>. PREDOC is a consortium of academic and research institutions whose mission is to foster a talented and diverse population
of researchers in the quantitative social sciences, with a particular focus on predoctoral programs in economics departments and business schools. These institutions include Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, NYU, Princeton, Stanford, UT Austin,
Yale, the NBER, and the Federal Reserve system. We expect this list will grow. The aim is to maximize the quality of research assistants who will work for our faculty and, eventually, apply to PhD programs and, down the line, will become faculty somewhere.
There is wide agreement that increasing and expanding the talent pool can only be beneficial to everyone–hence the idea of the consortium. The website<a href="https://predoc.org/"><span style="color:#954F72;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="color:#954F72">predoc.org</span></a> will
act as a one-stop place where undergraduate students from any backgrounds can find all the information they need, including available predoctoral job positions around the country, educational material to prepare, and so on.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are planning a virtual informational session at noon on either the 1<sup>st</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or 3<sup>rd</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of December. Please indicate when you could attend
a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6mzZWl0VWp2ZNS5" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954F72">PREDOC Information Session</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have any questions, please visit the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://predoc.org/"><span style="color:#954F72">webpage</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or contact<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rreagans@mit.edu"><span style="color:#954F72">Ray
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#941100">MIT Sloan School of Management<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#5D5D5D">| PhD Program</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#5D5D5D">Virtual office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 – 3:00 PM at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/94057854149"><span style="color:#954F72">https://mit.zoom.us/j/94057854149</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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