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<div>Ask and ye shall receive. I sent the minutes from our last
Editors' Club meeting, which noted everybody's interest (but lack of
knowledge about) MIT's presidential interest, to Kathryn
Willmore, Vice President and Secretary of the Corporatio. Kathryn sent
back the following note.</div>
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<div>Cheers!</div>
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<div>Elizabeth</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Elizabeth, a couple of answers to the
questions below:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>1. Presidential transitions: Chuck
and Becky have moved into a condo in Cambridge; Gray House is being
readied for Susan Hockfield and her family. They will move in
before the end of November.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>2. Presidential staff. Susan
will begin with the same team of senior officers (provost, deans, vps,
etc.). Kirk Kolenbrander will assume new responsibilities as
senior advisor to the president. Here's the text of an email
that she sent a couple of weeks ago to Academic and Administrative
Councils and to the ao list:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+2" color="#000000">In
planning for the staffing needs of my own office, I have asked Dr.
Kirk Kolenbrander, who is so ably assisting in this presidential
transition period, to continue in a newly created position: Advisor to
the President. In his new role, Kirk will work with me and
an executive assistant to manage the day-to-day operations of the
President's office, will work on a variety of high-level institutional
projects or issues, and will serve as a representative of the
President on a variety of matters to both internal and external
constituencies.<br>
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We now are beginning the search for the Executive Assistant to the
President, who will work with me and Kirk on managing my schedule and
the operations of my office. Attached is a description of that
position. I would very much appreciate your help in spreading
the word about this opportunity.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>3. Signage. At long
last...the MIT map near the student center will be updated.
Gayle Gallagher, Suzana Lisanti, Tim Blackburn and others have been
working on it. Hope to see the mock-up this month.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Kathryn</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>MIT EDITORS' CLUB<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>*Meeting Notes from November 10,
2004*</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>President Vest's departure from the
presidency and Dr. Hockfield's arrival in early December were the
focus of much of this meeting.....people were wondering if Dr.
Hockfield will be bringing her own staff, where the Vests are living,
whether President Vest will retain his professorial title (yes), and
more. Since no one at the meeting was sure of the answers (except for
question 3), I'll jump to other subjects brought up at the
meeting.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>*Asteroid Boy*</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>A few days ago I received an e-mail from
a ninth-grader who had read one of our stories about near-earth
asteroids and had some questions for the Lincoln Lab researcher. I
forwarded his questions to the researcher--among them, "how
old were you when you first started studying asteroids"--and,
voila, within the hour the researcher had sent back
answers.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>And wonderful answers they were. So:
cross your fingers, but the News Office is asking the researcher--and
then the student--if we can run their correspondence as a a Q&A in
Tech Talk. Stay tuned.....</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-4"
color="#000000">And in the meantime, Denise Heintze of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences suggests checking out the following site for kids:
It's sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and allows kids
to send their science questions to real live scientists
http://www.askascientist.org/</font>.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>*Signage*</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Figures that MIT communicators would
notice--and question--the following:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Why does the MIT campus map outside the
Student Center still include Building 20? Debbie Levey of Civil and
Environmental Engineering passes the sign daily, and reports seeing
perplexed tourists looking back and forth from their up-to-date maps
to the Student Center map....</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Why is the large map showing MIT
entryways for the disabled......situated halfway down the infinite
corridor?</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>That's it for now....Many thanks to all
who responded to my query for "MIT mavericks" (young Bob
Langer types) that Fortune magazine might want to feature in their new
column.....send me a note if you'd like to receive the final
list.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Cheers!</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Elizabeth</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>===================================<br>
Elizabeth A. Thomson<br>
Assistant Director, Science & Engineering News<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
News Office, Room 11-400<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave.<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)<br>
<thomson@mit.edu><br>
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<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www><br>
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<div>===================================<br>
Elizabeth A. Thomson<br>
Assistant Director, Science & Engineering News<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
News Office, Room 11-400<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave.<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)<br>
<thomson@mit.edu><br>
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<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www><br>
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