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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Hi GW@MIT members,
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">We hope you had a great Thanksgiving break!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">You might find the following events interesting – check them out, they are happening soon!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000">Impacting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on a Non-Academic Track (flyer attached)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">When:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Wednesday Nov. 28th, 2:30-3:30 pm<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Where:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">room 4-149</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sign-up</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: <a href="http://signup.mit.edu/1428569355">here</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For many of us, our professional identity is formed during our graduate studies through the lens of our academic mentors and research agenda.
By graduation we have been equipped with the skills necessary to thrive in the higher education landscape and navigate the path to becoming a tenured professor. But, what does it take to grow our careers outside of academia?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Attend this fireside chat session with Rochelle L. Williams, Co-PI and Project Director of the ARC Network, as she shares how untangling
her identity from the tenure track process led to a career in diversity, equity, and inclusion within nonprofit organizations. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> She will discuss how your strengths and transferable
skills can develop and impact national policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#575757">About the Speaker:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Rochelle L. Williams, Ph.D. is the Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator for the ADVANCE Resource Coordination (ARC) Network
with the Association for Women in Science (AWIS).</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> The ARC Network, funded by the National Science Foundation under award number HRD-1740860, recognizes the value of intersectionality,
intentionality, and connecting inclusiveness to organizational principles and practices. With a primary focus on issues of gender equity for faculty in higher education science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, the ARC Network empowers
the community to move knowledge on systemic change forward and to fluently adapt existing resources to their organizational, departmental, and demographic contexts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To learn more about participating in the network and to receive our electronic updates visit <a href="http://www.equityinstem.org/" target="_blank">www.EquityInSTEM.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000">GW@MIT Title IX: take action, show support for survivors!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos released proposed Title IX rules and regulations. According to the ACLU,
<i>“the new rule inappropriately tips the scales in favor of the accused and against those who report sexual assault</i>.” These changes would make our schools less safe for survivors and make it much harder to hold perpetrators of sexual and domestic violence
accountable.<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">But it’s not too late! We have 60 days to stop these rules before they take effect. Take action! </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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• To add your name in support of survivors’ rights, please sign and share our <a href="https://tinyurl.com/handsoffix-openletter" target="_blank">
open letter.<br>
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<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">•</span></a> We are also planning an action at the Department of Education regional center in Boston during the first week of December. Check out our
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/313959289190425/" target="_blank">Facebook event</a> for updates!<br>
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• Participate in the comment period: regulations.gov > search 2018-OCR-0064 (should be up soon!)<br>
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We'll send a brief summary of the proposed changes soon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For now,
<a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/245118" target="_blank">
here</a> and </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-statement-secretary-devoss-proposed-rule-title-ix" target="_blank">here</a></span></span><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">are some articles on the topic.<br>
The full report is available </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/title-ix-nprm.pdf" target="_blank">here</a></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000">GW@MIT and AMITA: Ellen Swallow Richards Birthday Party and AMITA Holiday Party<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">When:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Saturday, December 8th 2pm-4pm<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Where:</span></strong> 6th Floor Building 9 (Samuel Tak Lee Building). 105 Mass. Ave. Cambridge<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">RSVP:</span></strong> <a href="http://amita.alumgroup.mit.edu/s/1314/2015/club-class-main.aspx?sid=1314&gid=20&pgid=45989&content_id=48247" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#2BAADF">here</span></a></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">You’re invited to join GWAMIT and AMITA in
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">celebrating the legacy of Ellen Swallow Richards</span></strong>,
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">the first woman admitted to MIT.
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Not only was she MIT’s first woman graduate, but she was also MIT’s first woman instructor. She was a pioneer in public health and environmental science, whose research helped set the first water-quality standards in the United States. Every year, AMITA comes
together with current students to honor Ellen Swallow Richards birthday (December 3rd, 1842) and celebrate the holiday season. This year, GWAMIT is happy to be co-hosting the event. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000">Yulefest 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Karissa Bollinger - Assistant Fitness Director at MIT Recreation - is throwing a team together for the
<a href="https://www.cambridge5k.com/yulefest/">Yulefest 5k</a> in Harvard on 12/9 and she would love for you to join!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You can sign up for the team
<a href="https://yulefest.eventbrite.com/?team_token=2190233-70404">here</a> until December 1<sup>st</sup>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Questions? Contact Karissa! (office: 617-253-2022 | cell: 610-533-1325 | email:
<a href="mailto:karissab@mit.edu">karissab@mit.edu</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000">Volunteer for a research study!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We invite you to participate in a research study at the Sensorimotor Technology Realization in Immersive Virtual Environments (STRIVE) Center run by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
The goal of the study will be to improve our understanding of <b>human-exoskeleton adaptation</b>. As a part of this experiment, you will be asked to participate in a study over the course of two days consisting of a series of sensorimotor & cognitive tests
as well as multiple blocks of exoskeleton-aided walking. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">You may be considered for this research study if you are a healthy adult (18 years or older). Participation will be on a volunteer basis, and no compensation will
be provided for this research study.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you are interested in learning more, please contact the researcher at </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:adgupta@mit.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">adgupta@mit.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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