<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Dear Graduate Women,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">We are very excited to begin bringing you weekly announcements of
interest to the MIT and Boston graduate women's community. By doing so,
we hope to improve your awareness and access to current campus resources.
A full list of resources and programming relevant to graduate women is located
on our website (</span><a href="http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2650AA">http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit</span></a>) <span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">and
calendar (<a href="http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit/events.html">http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit/events.html</a>).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">We hope you enjoyed our article in The Tech (<a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N4/gwamit.html">http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N4/gwamit.html</a>)
last Friday! Look for an article coming soon in The Graduate (</span><a href="http://thegraduate.mit.edu/"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2650AA">http://thegraduate.mit.edu/</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Enjoy the Week!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">The GWAMIT Board</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Send your ideas to: </span><a href="mailto:gwamit-exec@mit.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2650AA">gwamit-exec@mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Send your announcements to: </span><a href="mailto:gwamit-sec@mit.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;color:#2650AA">gwamit-sec@mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">========<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">IN BRIEF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">========<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">1. GWAMIT Spring Kick-off Planning Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">2. Infant and Toddler Parenting Group<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">3. The ODGE Celebration of Graduate Women of MIT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">4. The Women and Entrepreneurship Series <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">5. Celebration of Women and
Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">=====================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">=====================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">1. GWAMIT Spring Kick-off Planning Committee</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">We are currently planning our first flagship event of the year, a
Spring kick-off event, which will occur April 26-30, 2010. We envision a
week-long series of workshops, seminars, and panels focused on empowerment,
leadership, and personal development. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">To get involved contact: </span><a href="mailto:gwamit-spring@mit.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2650AA">gwamit-spring@mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">2. Infant and Toddler Parenting Group
</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">When: </span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">4-5 p.m. Thursdays starting February 11<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Where:</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"> Eastgate Penthouse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Want an informal setting to meet
other parents and discuss your various parenting challenges? Let's get together
and talk about sleep, separation anxiety, teething, setting limits, and all of
those other tasks that parents face. This is not a play group, but you are
welcome to bring your children (optional). Led by Andrea Schmidt, graduate
student and mother of two. All MIT parents are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">For more information contact Andrea
at </span><a href="mailto:aews@mit.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">aews@mit.edu</span></a></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">You may also be interested in...</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><u><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">BabyNet Play Group</span></u><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> - Tuesdays from
3:30-5 p.m. in the Eastgate Penthouse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p>Fun, music, and activities for
infants to preschoolers</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p><u><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Moms-to-be Group</span></u><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> - connect with
other expecting parents</span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p>Next Meeting: Thursday, February 11
from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in E23-364</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p>Contact Jennifer Recklet at
617-253-1614 or <a href="mailto:reck@med.mit.edu">reck@med.mit.edu</a></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">3. The Office of the Dean for Graduate Education is Celebrating the
Graduate Women of MIT this spring!</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> We would love for you to get
involved in a variety of ways.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Nominate
an outstanding Graduate Woman</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">: we’re asking graduate women to nominate their
outstanding peers who are making a difference in the work that they do (and
perhaps furthering the future of graduate women by breaking new ground)! vote
here: </span><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2NMJ8KP"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2650AA">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2NMJ8KP</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Join
the planning committee</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">: help us organize the exhibit, manage nominations for excellent
Graduate Women, and install the exhibit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Help
design the display</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">: we’re looking for talented visual and a/v women to help with the
design of the posters and video components of the display<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">If you would like to join the
committee or are interested in working on the visual display, please send me an
email. If you want to nominate an outstanding graduate woman, please vote here:<b>
</b></span><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2NMJ8KP"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2650AA">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2NMJ8KP</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Contact Libby at </span><a href="mailto:lputman@mit.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2650AA">lputman@mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> to get involved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">4. The Women and Entrepreneurship Series, brought to you by SWIM and
the MIT E-Center<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">3 informal lunches with successful female entrepreneurs * 1 SIP
workshop * 1 networking reception with MIT graduate women and members of the
Boston-area entrepreneurship and VC communities!</span></i><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">First Event:</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> Lunch with Bettina Hein, SM ’07 -- Founder and
CEO, Pixability (lunch will be provided)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">When:</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"> Tuesday, February 16, 11:45am-1pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Where: </span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">E51-393<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Topic:</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"> Getting Started – finding the idea and the team with a focus on
refining the innovation and the business models and looking for early sources
of funding.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Speaker Bio: </span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Bettina Hein, SM ’07 – Founder and CEO,
Pixability. Bettina founded Pixability to help entrepreneurs and small
businesses tell their story with video and win more customers in the process.
Bettina also co-founded Swiss-based speech technology specialist SVOX AG and
led the venture-backed software company to profitability. In 1996, Bettina was
the initiator of the START (</span><a href="http://startglobal.org/"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2650AA">http://startglobal.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">), which
encourages entrepreneurship among university students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">About the Founder Lunch Series:</span></b><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">The aim of the Founders Lunch Series is to bring in one founder for
Tuesdays from 11:45am-1pm to sit down with a small group of students and share
their experiences as an entrepreneur in an informal and intimate setting; the
discussion is meant to be interactive – questions are definitely welcome! It is
also a great chance to network with the entrepreneurs as well as to meet
classmates with similar interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">This is a speaker series to allow the women’s community at MIT,
especially graduate women, to hear first hand about the process and experience
of starting, funding, and growing a business. MIT and the surrounding area is
one of the most successful ecosytems for entrepreneurship in the world, but
women are consistently underrepresented, as they are around the country; this
series will provide some role models and connections.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Contact Veena at </span><a href="mailto:veenaj@mit.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2650AA">veenaj@mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">5. Celebration of Women and Technology</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">When:</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"> Thursday, Feb 25, 2-6 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Where:</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"> Microsoft Research, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Women at the media lab are often visionaries and pioneers of their
fields. We have lots to learn from each other, coming from many diverse
backgrounds and cultures. Join us to meet alumnae as well as current members of
the community. Let's get together to celebrate women and technology at
Microsoft Research, hosted by researcher and alumnae danah boyd, Social Media
Researcher.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Please RSVP by Friday, Feb 12th to </span><a href="mailto:mediawomenrsvp@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none">mediawomenrsvp@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Refreshments sponsored by Microsoft and the MediaWomen's group<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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