<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Everybody!<div><br></div><div>Sally Dale of the Koch Institute sent me the following job opening that I thought some of you might be interested in (or would forward to others who might be interested).</div><div><br></div><div>Elizabeth<br><div>
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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><b>Title:</b> Curator, Koch Institute Public Gallery </div><p><b>Req Number:</b> mit-00006745
<br><b>Department:</b> Museum
<br><b>Location(s):</b> Cambridge MA
<br><b>FT/PT:</b> Full Time
<br><b>Employment / Payroll Category:</b> Administrative
<br><b>Work Shift:</b>
</p><p class="text">CURATOR, KOCH INSTITUTE PUBLIC GALLERY, MIT Museum/Koch
Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, to assume direct
responsibility for developing and delivering the first exhibitions that
will be installed in the Koch Institute Public Gallery, coinciding with
the formal opening of the Koch Institute in 2011. The gallery will
provide a suite of exhibitions about cancer-related and other
biomedical science and engineering at MIT. The curator will handle
exhibition-related research, including library and archive research on
the history of MIT life sciences and technology and interviews with key
Koch faculty, staff, and students; develop detailed proposals for
exhibition content, including researching the educational needs of
target audiences and identification of appropriate objects, images,
videos, and multimedia elements; draft exhibition text; work with the
Museum's exhibition team and external consultants (designers,
fabricators, etc.) to ensure successful implementation; and supervise
exhibit installations to ensure successful delivery on time and budget.
Will report to the director of the MIT Museum. <br>
<br>
Additional information on the Koch Institute and the MIT Museum is
available at <a href="http://web.mit.edu/ki/">http://web.mit.edu/ki/</a> and <a href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/">http://web.mit.edu/museum/</a>.</p><p class="text">REQUIREMENTS: close acquaintance with the recent
history and contemporary practice of the life sciences and technology,
preferably in cancer research; a minimum of two years' experience
working in informal science education and public outreach, preferably
in a museum environment; ability to work in a multidisciplinary team of
content and exhibition management specialists, designers, fabricators,
etc.; academic training (preferably at the doctoral level) in
appropriate subject area, e.g., life sciences and technology, history
of the life sciences and technology, and/or science communication.
MIT-00006745-P <br>
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This is a temporary, fifteen-month appointment that may be renewable depending funding availability.<br>
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