<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. Graduate Ring Premiere</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Oct 1, 7pm, Walker Memorial</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 2. Graduate Student Life Grants</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Apply Now!</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 3. Public Service Fellowships</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Apply Now!</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 4. Interviewing Workshops</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sept 30 @ 3pm and Oct 2 @ 1pm</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 5. Progress Through Innovation</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Register Now!</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 6. Women's Initiative</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Deadline Extended to Oct 3!</div><div>details:</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>*Graduate Ring Premiere* </div><div><br></div><div>Attend the free premiere of the latest graduate ring design on </div><div>October 1 from 7 to 10pm in Walker! Enjoy food and beverages, </div><div>live entertainment, giveaways, T-shirts, and a raffle for free rings.</div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="http://gsc.mit.edu/ring">http://gsc.mit.edu/ring</a> </div><div>for more information about the design and the premiere.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>*Graduate Student Life Grants proposals are now being accepted!</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have an idea for a way to help enhance the graduate student community?</div><div>The Grants are provided by the Dean for Graduate Education to help </div><div>fund creative community-building ideas. Ideas can be focused within </div><div>a discipline or span several departments/groups/residences.</div><div><br></div><div>Grant proposals may be submitted by grad or undergrad students, </div><div>faculty, administrators, alumni, departments, or other groups </div><div>interested in fomenting grad student community.</div><div><br></div><div>The deadline for submitting proposals is </div><div>5:00PM on Friday, October 17th, 2008.</div><div>Please see <a href="http://web.mit.edu/odge/community/grants.html">http://web.mit.edu/odge/community/grants.html</a> </div><div>for details on the proposal process and for examples of </div><div>proposals that were funded in the past.</div><div><br></div><div>*****EXECUTIVE SUMMARY*****</div><div>What: Grad Student Life Grants proposals now being accepted</div><div>Why: get money for grad community-building ideas</div><div>Who: pretty much anyone associated with MIT</div><div>When: applications due October 17th</div><div>Where: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/odge/community/grants.html">http://web.mit.edu/odge/community/grants.html</a> for more details</div><div><br></div><div>________________________________________________________________________</div><div>*Public Service Center Fellowships*</div><div><br></div><div>The Public Service Center is offering funded Fellowship opportunities</div><div>to MIT students for IAP or the fall semester!</div><div>If you are an MIT student, you can work on a project by yourself or </div><div>as part of a small group. You can create your own project or apply </div><div>for one of the projects advertised on our website. All Fellows work </div><div>on projects that bring sustainable benefits to communities around </div><div>the world.</div><div>Check out the opportunities at <a href="http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/fellowships/">http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/fellowships/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Current advertised opportunities include:</div><div>* Create a school astronomy program for First Philadelphia school, PA</div><div>* Help the environmental lab at Oglala Lakota College become </div><div>state-certified for water quality analysis</div><div>* R&D projects with the Full Belly Project - maximize devices that </div><div>alleviate labor and increase crop values in developing nations</div><div><br></div><div>Applications for IAP Fellowships are due at noon on October 17.</div><div>Applications for fall Fellowships are accepted on a rolling basis</div><div><br></div><div>Questions? Contact Alison at <a href="mailto:hynd@mit.edu">hynd@mit.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>*Interviewing Workshops* </div><div><br></div><div>Two Interviewing Workshops</div><div>Tuesday Sept 30th from 3:00-4:30 PM in Rm. 4-153</div><div>Thursday Oct 2nd from 1:00-2:30 PM in Rm. 4-145</div><div><br></div><div>Topics will include Interviewing from the Hiring Managers Perspective. </div><div>Knowing what the Hiring Manager is thinking will help you be more </div><div>effective during the interviewing process. Plus other great tips </div><div>and strategies will be discussed.</div><div><br></div><div>Please goto CareerBridge, Databases, Career Fair and Events </div><div>to register...bring a friend.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>*Progress through Innovation*</div><div><br></div><div>Announcing Progress through Innovation, the inaugural conference </div><div>organized by the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship </div><div>at MIT, taking place on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 in Cambridge, MA.</div><div><br></div><div>The conference, which will focus on international development and </div><div>entrepreneurship, will feature an unprecedented panel of 4 Nobel </div><div>Laureates in Economics, entrepreneurs from Afghanistan, Kenya and </div><div>India, and a luncheon session with guest speaker, Ben Cohen, </div><div>co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. The day's proceedings will </div><div>be moderated by BBC World News Presenter Nisha Pillai.</div><div><br></div><div>** Seating is limited. **</div><div>Register online now at: <a href="http://legatum.mit.edu/events">http://legatum.mit.edu/events</a></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>*Women's Initiative*</div><div><br></div><div>Make a DIFFERENCE</div><div>And...</div><div>Go on a FREE TRIP during one week of IAP! </div><div><br></div><div>JOIN MIT WOMEN'S INITIATIVE!</div><div>The MIT Women's Initiative is a group that sends pairs of female </div><div>engineers (both graduate and undergraduate) from MIT to middle and </div><div>high schools around the country for a week during IAP. They give </div><div>presentations about opportunities in engineering and encourage high </div><div>school girls to remain interested in math and science. Previous </div><div>presenters have been to Washington, Hawaii., Miami, Alaska, San </div><div>Francisco, and beyond.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information and to APPLY, please visit: </div><div><a href="http://mit.edu/wi/presenters/">http://mit.edu/wi/presenters/</a>.</div><div>Application deadline has been EXTENDED to midnight Friday, Oct 3</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
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