<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>************************** GSC ANNOUNCEMENTS *************************</div><div> more extensive announcements online: <a href="http://gsc.mit.edu">http://gsc.mit.edu</a></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>headlines (details below):</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 1. Nuts & Bolts of the Academic Job Search </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>July 16, 4-5:15pm 6-120</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 2. Dissertation Bootcamp</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>July 28-Aug 1</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 3. Publishing Smart</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>July 25, 12-1pm 14N-132</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 4. Join the '08 Orientation Organizing Team!</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 5. Writing Center is Open during the Summer!</div><div><br></div><div>details:</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>*Nuts & Bolts of the Academic Job Search*</div><div><br></div><div>Are you planning to enter the academic job market? Come hear tips from those who successfully landed a faculty position. Learn the search committee's perspective on the process.</div><div><br></div><div>WEDS July 16th, 4-5:15PM, 6-120</div><div><br></div><div>Featuring </div><div>Stephen J. Lippard, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry, MIT Chemistry Dept.</div><div>Hongshen Ma, MIT PhD EE 07, current postdoc in MechE. Will be Asst. Prof., MechE, U. of British Columbia, Canada</div><div>Alejandro Flores, MIT PhD '08, Civil & Env. Engineering, will be Asst. Prof., Geoscience Dept., Boise State University</div><div>Alison Malcolm, Asst. Prof., MIT Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences</div><div>Yvgenia Zazavker, Assoc. Prof., Physics, Olin College (MIT PhD Physics)</div><div> </div><div>Co-sponsored by the MIT Careers Office, GSC and the Postdoctoral Advisory Council</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>*Dissertation Bootcamp*</div><div> </div><div>What: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5-day writing retreat</div><div>When: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>July 28 (Mon) - Aug 1 (Fri)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>10am - 4pm daily (including lunch break)</div><div>Where: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>TBA (on campus)</div><div><br></div><div>Dissertation Bootcamp is a new, experimental GSC event organized to help</div><div>graduate students write their dissertations by providing a conducive</div><div>environment for writing. Free drinks (including coffee) and snacks will be</div><div>provided daily.</div><div><br></div><div>A deposit of $20 will be collected from each participant on the first day.</div><div>This deposit will be refunded in full on the last day if the participant has</div><div>an attendance rate of at least 80%. This is purely to provide extra</div><div>motivation for participants to show up, sit down and write.</div><div><br></div><div>Due to space constraints, participation will be limited to 20 students.</div><div><br></div><div>To sign up or make enquiries, email Cheston Tan (<a href="mailto:cheston@mit.edu">cheston@mit.edu</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>*Publishing Smart: A Hands-on Workshop on Journal Quality Measures and Publisher Copyright Policies*</div><div><br></div><div>Host: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>MIT LIBRARIES </div><div>Place: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>DIRC (14N-132) [off hall near music library] </div><div>Time: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>12:00-1:00pm</div><div><br></div><div>Geared for graduate students, addresses what copyright means to you as an</div><div>author, how you can assess a publisher's copyright policies, and how you can use web-based tools that assess journal quality. Open access publishing</div><div>models and the use of the MIT amendment to alter standard publisher</div><div>agreements will also be discussed.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>*Join the '08 Orientation organizing team! Not much work but a lot of fun!</div><div><br></div><div>Two openings are waiting for you:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Information Booth Chair</div><div><br></div><div>Meet more than 1600 new faces!</div><div>Work closely with MIT offices, GSC administrators and officers!</div><div>Hand out goodie bags, free T-shirts, tickets and your warmest smile!</div><div><br></div><div>2) Coordinator for the Welcome Banquet</div><div><br></div><div>Help with one of the most attended events during Orientation!</div><div>Work closely with the Techlink officers!</div><div>Invite enthusiastic volunteers to contribute!</div><div><br></div><div>If you are interested, please email <a href="mailto:gsc-oc@mit.edu">gsc-oc@mit.edu</a> asap.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>*Writing Center will be open this Summer!*</div><div><br></div><div>For the first time in its 26-year history, MIT's Writing and </div><div>Communication Center will be open during the summer. The new hours </div><div>are the result of special funding from Dean Steven Lerman and the </div><div>Office of the Dean for Graduate Education, Dean Deborah Fitzgerald </div><div>and the Office of Dean of School of Humanities and Social Sciences, </div><div>and Assoc. Provost Claude Canizares. The basic concept is to make the</div><div>Center's professional consultants available for graduate students </div><div>and post-docs during the summer months.</div><div><br></div><div>the Writing Center will be open from: </div><div>July 1-August 22, Monday through Friday, </div><div>from 10:a.m.-noon, 1:00-3:00 p.m.</div><div><br></div><div>Appointments will be made on the online scheduler </div><div>and there will also be the possibility of dropping in.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
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