<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. Trip to Foxwoods</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Feb 18th, 12-10pm</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 2. Institute Awards 2009</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Submit Your Nominations!</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 3. Irwin Jacobs Distinguished Lecture</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Feb 19th, 4:30pm, 10-250</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 4. MIT Re-Generator</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Feb 19th, 6:30pm, R&D Commons</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 5. The Smart Way to Your Ph.D.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>www.yourphd.com</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 6. MGH Research Help Needed</div><div><br></div><div>details:</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>*Trip to Foxwoods Casino!*</div><div><br></div><div>Saturday, February 28th - bus leaves MIT at noon and returns at 10:00PM</div><div><br></div><div>Ticket includes:</div><div>- coach bus transportation to Foxwoods Resort and Casino</div><div>- buffet dinner (or $10 meal voucher)</div><div>- $10 in Keno tickets</div><div>- entry to win a cruise</div><div><br></div><div>Tickets cost $15 for MIT graduate students and $18 for guests </div><div>(max 1 guest/student).</div><div><br></div><div>Tickets (and more info) available NOW at <a href="http://gsc.mit.edu/foxwoods">http://gsc.mit.edu/foxwoods</a></div><div><br></div><div>Must be 21+ to attend this event. Bring age ID to enter casino.</div><div>Questions? Email <a href="mailto:gsc-ac@mit.edu">gsc-ac@mit.edu</a>.</div><div>Sponsored by the MIT GSC and MIT Club of Boston.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>*Institute Awards - Call for Nominations*</div><div><br></div><div>Each year, the MIT Awards Convocation and the Graduate Student Council </div><div>honor faculty, students, and staff at MIT who have had a positive impact</div><div>on the graduate student experience. We are now inviting nominations </div><div>for the following awards recognizing outstanding devotion and talent:</div><div><br></div><div>* Graduate Teaching Awards, presented each year to a faculty member</div><div>and/or a teaching assistant from each school.</div><div><br></div><div>* Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising,</div><div>presented to a faculty member, who as a graduate student advisor,</div><div>demonstrates unbounded compassion and dedication towards students.</div><div><br></div><div>* Edward L. Horton Fellowship Award, presented to any student(s) or</div><div>student group that fosters fellowship within the graduate student</div><div>community.</div><div><br></div><div>* Irwin Sizer Award for Most Significant Improvement to MIT</div><div>Education, presented to a member or group in the Institute community</div><div>to honor significant innovations and improvements to MIT education.</div><div><br></div><div>The deadline for submitting nominations this year is</div><div>Friday, March 13, 2009.</div><div><br></div><div>You may submit nominations or obtain more information about the</div><div>awards at: <a href="http://gsc.mit.edu/awards">http://gsc.mit.edu/awards</a> or <a href="http://web.mit.edu/awards">http://web.mit.edu/awards</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div>*Irwin Jacobs: School of Engineering Distinguished Lecture*</div><div><br></div><div>February 19th at 4:30pm in 10-250</div><div><br></div><div>Irwin Jacobs will give the inaugural lecture in the new School of </div><div>Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series. An alumnus and former </div><div>faculty member in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and </div><div>Computer Science, Jacobs cofounded and is now chairman of Qualcomm </div><div>Incorporated. His talk is titled “From Information Theory Courses at </div><div>MIT to Providing Chips and Technology for a World with Four Billion </div><div>Cellular Subscribers: Memories and a Look Ahead.” He will share </div><div>stories from the front lines of the digital communications revolution, </div><div>as well insight from his perspective of unparalleled depth, on the </div><div>future of technology. </div><div> </div><div>Cosponsored this year by the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, </div><div>the School of Engineering Distinguished Lectures are intended to be </div><div>regular opportunities for the engineering community and the Institute </div><div>at large to come together to hear from leaders and pioneers in the </div><div>engineering disciplines. </div><div><br></div><div>For more information, please visit <a href="http://engineering.mit.edu/news">http://engineering.mit.edu/news</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div>*MIT Re-Generator!*</div><div><br></div><div>If not here, then where? Come see how MIT students are transforming </div><div>our campus and solving real world energy and environmental problems.</div><div>Join the MIT Re-Generator: Thurs, Feb 19, 6:30PM, Stata, R&D Commons</div><div><br></div><div>Pitch an idea, join a team, or contribute your thoughts to make campus </div><div>better: great for meeting students, researchers, or practitioners in </div><div>the energy and environment fields!</div><div><br></div><div>Thursday, Feb 19, 6:30 to 9:00PM</div><div>Stata Center, R&D Commons (4th Floor)</div><div>(Food will be served)</div><div><br></div><div> SPARK a new project team</div><div> or</div><div> PLUG INTO an existing one</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://sustainability.mit.edu/generator">http://sustainability.mit.edu/generator</a></div><div><br></div><div>FUNDING AVAILABLE: Working groups who pull together an exciting project</div><div>have the opportunity to be funded by the MIT Energy Initiative.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have questions about the Generator, contact </div><div>Chris Kempes <<a href="mailto:ckempes@mit.edu">ckempes@mit.edu</a>> or Carrie Brown <<a href="mailto:carrieb@mit.edu">carrieb@mit.edu</a>> </div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div>*The Smart Way to Your Ph.D.*</div><div><br></div><div>Are you trying to graduate within a reasonable amount of time? </div><div>I was a student at MIT a few years ago as well (B.S. ’98, Ph.D.’04), </div><div>and I recently published “The Smart Way to Your Ph.D.: 200 Secrets </div><div>from 100 Graduates.” This book compiles practical advice from </div><div>100 Ph.D.s (including professors), and information about fellowships, </div><div>research databases and job-searching guides. </div><div><br></div><div>I recently launched “Your Ph.D. Newsletter,” a free electronic </div><div>publication with even more resources about graduate school. </div><div><br></div><div>If you would to find out more about my book (and read reviews by MIT </div><div>professors), or to browse my newsletters, please visit my website at: </div><div>www.yourphd.com. </div><div><br></div><div>Wishing you the best, Dora Farkas, Ph.D. ’04. </div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div>*MGH Research* </div><div> </div><div>Research Help Needed</div><div><br></div><div>Take a 10-minute mental health screening survey from Massachusetts </div><div>General Hospital for research and you could win a $200 Visa gift card.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=AuQmZYNFo4ZLSLuuE7W1tw_3d_3d">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=AuQmZYNFo4ZLSLuuE7W1tw_3d_3d</a></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div>
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