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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>Please join us tomorrow, Friday, March 16, at Bartos Theater for MacVicar Day 2012, a celebration of excellence in teaching at MIT. </div><div><br></div><div>Refreshments will be available in the lobby starting at 2:30 pm. A symposium entitled “Innovations in Undergraduate Education at MIT: Past, Present, and Future” follows from 3:00 - 5:00 pm. Full details are below.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope to see you there!</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>MacVicar Day 2012</b></div><div>Innovations in Undergraduate Education at MIT: Past, Present, and Future</div><div>In the Tradition of Margaret MacVicar and Robert Silbey</div><div><br></div><div>Friday, March 16, 2012</div><div>Bartos Theater, E15-070</div><div><br></div><div>Refreshments: 2:30 PM</div><div>Symposium: 3:00 – 5:00 PM</div><div><br></div><div>Join us to honor the 2012 MacVicar Faculty Fellows and celebrate the tradition of excellence in teaching at MIT. Dean Daniel Hastings will introduce the new MacVicar Faculty Fellows, and Dean Diana Henderson will moderate the symposium panel, emphasizing faculty collaborations and recent innovations involving undergraduate life and learning. The program includes presentations by Professors Linda G. Griffith, Moungi G. Bawendi, John M. Essigmann, William Broadhead, and Arthur W. Bahr.</div><div><br></div><div>With this symposium, we also pay tribute to Robert Silbey, a champion for undergraduate education and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow, who passed away in October. Alumnus Joel Yuen ’07 and Professor Robert Redwine will share some reflections on working with Robert, one of the most visionary and important innovators in undergraduate education at MIT. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://web.mit.edu/macvicar/macvicarday.html">http://web.mit.edu/macvicar/macvicarday.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sponsored by the Office of Faculty Support and The MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></span>
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