<html><head><base href="x-msg://204/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>You may want to alert your constituencies to this event...<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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 bgcolor="white" background="cid:image001.png@01CAC065.F7C652C0" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">MIT to host the National Faculty Collaborative Research Poster Competition</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">MIT will host the National Faculty Collaborative Research Poster Competition on March 22<sup>nd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from 3:30pm to 5:30pm in Lobby 13. The poster competition is part of the NSF 2010 Minority Faculty Development Workshop that is taking place from March 22<sup>nd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to 24<sup>th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at MIT. The competition features over fifty faculty scholars from various universities across the United States showcasing their science and engineering research. Posters are organized along several broad categories, including Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Materials, Mechanical, and STEM Education. The NSF 2010 Minority Faculty Development Workshop is co-organized by Georgia Tech and MIT, and funded through the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. For more information: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/officers/faculty-equity/harris/mfdw_agenda.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://web.mit.edu/officers/faculty-equity/harris/mfdw_agenda.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This event is open to the MIT community and to the public. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>