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<div>Hope you're enjoying the heat wave! <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">We have a few important things for you below that are coming up soon including some awesome GW@MIT events in early May (RBG Film + Boba, Happy Hour with women from Malaysia's Asia
School of Business). Hope to see you at the events!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Next week we will also be transitioning some of our leadership so look out for an email with information on the new exec board! </span></div>
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<div>GW@MIT Board<br>
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<div><font color="#800A00" style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>1. </b></font><b style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 10, 0);">Happy Hour with visiting women from Malaysia's Asia School
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<div style="font-size: small;"><font size="2"><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>When: </b>Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 at 7pm</font><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</font><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Where:</b></font><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Meadhall</font></font></div>
<div style=""><b style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Sign up now!: </b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-hour-at-meadhall-with-visiting-women-from-asia-school-of-business-tickets-45499597521" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10pt;">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-hour-at-meadhall-with-visiting-women-from-asia-school-of-business-tickets-45499597521</a></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; font-size: small;">Interested in working in or making connections with Malaysia? Want to catch up with your fellow GW@MIT members while meeting women from the other side of
the world? Join GW@MIT in welcoming women from Sloan's partner school, Asia School of Business, to Boston!
<b>Light appetizers and 1 drink ticket per person</b> will be available!</span></div>
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<div><font color="#800A00" style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>2. </b></font><b style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(128, 10, 0);">May First Friday: RBG Film + Boba! - Look out for an email
if you're on the waitlist- we may have last minute spots open up!</b></div>
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<div style="text-align: start;"><font size="2"><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>When: </b></font><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Friday, May 4th, 2018, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM EDT</font><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</font><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Where:</b></font><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Meet at Bon Me to grab bubble tea, film starts 7pm at Kendall Square Theatre</font></font></div>
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Come join GW@MIT for our May first Friday event! RBG is a new documentary film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "<span style="padding-top: 0px;">An intimate portrait of an unlikely rock star: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers
explore how her early legal battles changed the world for women."</span></p>
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Meet at 6:30 at Bon Me for Boba and to pick up your ticket for the 7 pm showing. Please sign up to be allocated a ticket - limited supply!</p>
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<div style="text-align: start;"><font color="#800A00" style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>3. Learn to Lead and Follow: Salsa Class! - postponed until June!</b></font></div>
<div style="text-align: start;"><font size="2"><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>When: </b>Late evening during first week of May, exact day and time TBD</font><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</font><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Where:</b></font><font style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> TBD</font></font></div>
<div style="text-align: start;"><b style="text-align: justify;">Sign up: </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;">Coming soon once details are set! Event will be free and we encourage everyone to attend (men too!)!</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: start;"><b style="color: rgb(128, 10, 0); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">4. POWER Seminar with Dr. Jessica Goodmann, former postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead, now Director of Corporate Alliances at Harvard</b></div>
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<div style="font-size: small;"><font size="2" style=""><font style="text-align: justify;"><b style="">When: </b></font></font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center;">Friday, May 18 at 3:00 – 4:30 pm</span><font size="2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</font><font style="text-align: justify;"><b>Where:</b></font><font style="text-align: justify;"> </font></font><font size="2" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;">Seminar
room 4-149 [</span></font><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=4" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12.79px; text-align: center;"><font color="#1155CC"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"><u>http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=4</u></span></font></font></a><font size="2" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;">]</span></font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small;"><b style="text-align: justify;">Sign up: </b><font size="2" color="#1155CC" style="font-size: 12.79px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/Uj0JiT9l8oSumwPp2" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12.79px; text-align: center;">https://goo.gl/forms/Uj0JiT9l8oSumwPp2</a></span></font></div>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"><i>Organized by the Postdoctoral Organization for Women Engaged in Research (POWER)</i></span></font></div>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"><i>Sponsored by the MIT Postdoc Association (PDA) Postdoc Initiative Grant (PInG)</i></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"> and </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;">a
grant from the Committee on Race and Diversity (Category: Diversity & Inclusion)</span></font></div>
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<font size="2" color="black" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;">POWER’s professional career development seminars focus on the speaker’s personal experiences, insights into their
current work, as well as work-life integration issues. Dr. Goodman will discuss what has contributed to her success, the challenges she has overcome, and advice for current postdocs. We hope that the interactions will assist postdocs in navigating their careers
and will also help them build professional connections.</span></font></div>
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<font size="2" color="black" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"><b style="">Speaker bio:</b></span></font></div>
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<font size="2" color="black" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;">Jessica leads the Corporate Alliances team at Harvard’s Office of Technology Development (OTD). Harvard’s Corporate
Alliances team is dedicated to maximizing the value of research alliances by facilitating productive relationships between the faculty at Harvard and partners in Industry.</span></font></div>
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<font size="2" color="black" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;">Prior to joining Harvard in 2016, Jessica was a Scientist in the Neurology Department at Biogen where she developed
cell-based assays to understand disease mechanisms in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Jessica also worked as a Senior Program Officer at Prize4Life, a non-profit dedicated to accelerating the discovery of a cure for ALS. Jessica was a NIH NRSA postdoctoral
fellow at the Whitehead Institute where she used yeast to study neurodegenerative diseases. Jessica received her B.S. in Biochemistry from Nazareth College of Rochester and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University.</span></font></div>
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<font size="2" style=""><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"><i style="">Please note: The professional and socio-cultural activities of POWER are open to the entire MIT community. POWER does not discriminate against individuals
on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin.</i></span></font></div>
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