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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">GWAMIT Newsletter</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">June 16<sup>th</sup>, 2020</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;color:black">Special Announcement - Petition<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%"><span style="color:black">The MIT BGSA, BSU, along with student leaders across the institute, write this petition calling on MIT leadership to be proactive in making MIT a place
where Black people can exist safely and thrive. The objectives of the petition are two-fold to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Objective 1:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Establish demands for the development of a 3-year and 10-year strategic plan to address racial bias at MIT by accomplishing the remaining tasks of the 2015 BSU/BGSA recommendations
AND new addendums to the recommendations</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Objective 2:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Make MIT safe for all students by investigating and implementing new models for public safety that reduce the scale of policing and increase safety and well-being</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%"><b>The full details of the petition and a form to sign-on can be found at
</b><a href="http://bgsa.mit.edu/sbl2020"><b>bgsa.mit.edu/sbl2020</b></a><b><span style="color:red">
</span>. </b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Support black-owned businesses!</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.boston.com/food/restaurants/2020/06/02/black-owned-restaurants-in-boston?s_campaign=bcom%3Asocialflow%3Afacebook&fbclid=IwAR2B-GeA9MhTVMffROFQPn9AD0VraX7pEfcM7TWbooFVIdezxIbhTeGHd50"><span style="color:#1155CC">60+
Black-owned restaurants</span></a><span style="color:black"> to support in the Greater Boston area</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1_wvyIj3w5F8XJn0leuGD5M9sAmaBKT8N2j0fEV0Df5I/htmlview?pru=AAABcsOhMxM*kObbqvU-pLeY_pvzaD8nCg#gid=778167218"><span style="color:#1155CC">Black-owned
businesses in Boston</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Use the app
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/black-nation/id1440424412"><span style="color:#1155CC">Black Nation</span></a><span style="color:black"> to find black-owned businesses!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Support Project Drawn Together:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"> Three MIT students
(Sarah, Emily, Amber) are drawing art to help support the Black Lives Matter movement in return for donations to organizations standing against systemic racism. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">If you donate to one of the following organizations or venmo</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
@emilyhaneh, t</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">hey will send you a personalized drawing of whatever you want! </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">• George Floyd Memorial Fund</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">• Black Lives Matter</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">• Freedom Funds</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Recommended donation size: $25, but donate what you can. You can send them a photo of what you want to be drawn, e.g.: a friend, a pet, a quote. Full details in
the Instagram links below! </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Instagram: Sarah's
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_dA6mJK04/?igshid=kz1oloowr9aw"><span style="color:#1155CC">instagram</span></a><span style="color:black">, Emily's
</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_ewKelbic/?igshid=1utimb5ucdhpx"><span style="color:#1155CC">instagram</span></a><span style="color:black">, Amber's
</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_dwE4BYKH/?igshid=17wtgdkfmu7po"><span style="color:#1155CC">instagram</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Did you know? Here is some positive women-related news from around the world: </span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/politics/ella-jones-ferguson-mayor.html"><span style="color:#1155CC">Ella Jones Is Elected First Black Mayor of Ferguson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/science/challenger-deep-kathy-sullivan-astronaut.html"><span style="color:#1155CC">First American Woman</span></a><span style="color:black">
to Walk in Space Reaches Deepest Spot in the Ocean</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">History was made this year when
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/mit-black-woman-student-president-trnd/index.html"><span style="color:#1155CC">MIT’s undergraduate student body elected their
first black </span></a><span style="color:black">female president, Danielle Geathers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-existing-civil-rights-law-protects-gay-lesbian-n1231018?fbclid=IwAR1Ur-crrbG_dKelDbIWYY3ZcYxENdRsn3Ku7sCG-J00jpFzkEwdS3UbLdA"><span style="color:#0033CC">The
Supreme Court in a landmark ruling</span><span style="color:#0070C0"></span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">upheld anti-discrimination employment protections for LGBTQ individuals
under title VII. Justice Gorsuch wrote for the court: "</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">An employer who fired an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits
or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex." "Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids."</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">COVID-19 Resources
</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">GWAMIT has compiled a list of resources we are aware of to help graduate women in our community. If you know of a resource that isn’t listed, please let us know
(gwamit-exec@mit.edu) so we can include it in the next newsletter to share with the community.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Expanded back-up child care policy:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://hr.mit.edu/worklife/backupchildcare"><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">https://hr.mit.edu/worklife/backupchildcare</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">MIT Ombuds Office -</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://ombuds.mit.edu/"><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">ombudsoffice.mit.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Ombuds Office is available to offer support and assistance to the MIT community in navigating these challenges and exploring constructive options for success.
We are available for phone or Zoom meetings and can also facilitate online sessions and group discussions to help teams function and support good communication skills during this challenging period. To schedule a meeting via phone or Zoom email kalina_s@mit.edu
or call 617-253-5921. A tips sheet from Ombuds for having difficult conversations can be found at the end of this newsletter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Graduate student short-term emergency hardship funding:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://engage.mit.edu/submitter/form/step/1?Guid=b180ffce-c28f-41f6-908b-387637df6396"><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">https://engage.mit.edu/submitter/form/step/1?Guid=b180ffce-c28f-41f6-908b-387637df6396</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">GSC DEI open letter for COVID-relief:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://mitgradstudentadvocates.weebly.com/"><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">https://mitgradstudentadvocates.weebly.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Stay at Home Recommendations:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Something
<b>to do…</b></span></u><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Educate yourself! “13th”, a documentary by Ava DuVernay on racial inequality and mass incarceration in America. Available on Netflix and
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8"><span style="color:#1155CC">free on YouTube</span></a><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Something
<b>to read… </b> </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Fiction:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38140077-washington-black"><span style="color:#1155CC">Washington Black</span></a><span style="color:black"> by Esi Edugya</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">“Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, ‘Washington Black’ is an engrossing hybrid of 19th-century adventure and contemporary subtlety, a rip-roaring tale of peril
imbued with our most persistent strife. The story comes to us as a memoir written by a former slave named George Washington Black, an ironic appellation that pricks at the festering wound in American mythology.” - Ron Charles, Washington Post</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Non-fiction:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/"><span style="color:#1155CC">The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks</span></a><span style="color:black"> by Rebecca
Skoot</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> A 2011 winner of the National Academies Communication Award and
<i>New York Times </i>bestseller, this book details the story of Henrietta Lacks, the black woman whose cervical cancer cells became the keystone for unlocking modern medicine. Blending health, ethics, and race, Skoot’s work sheds light on the life of the woman
behind the HeLa cell.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Looking to borrow books without leaving the house?</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
The Minuteman library network is doing temporary online membership which can be</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://library.minlib.net/selfreg"><span style="color:#1155CC"> applied for
here</span></a><span style="color:black">!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Something
<b>to watch…</b></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/manal_al_sharif_a_saudi_woman_who_dared_to_drive?language=en"><span style="color:#1155CC">A Saudi woman who dared to drive</span></a><span style="color:black">-
Manal al-Sharif is a Saudi women’s rights activist who spearheaded the campaign to allow women to drive. Watch her talk to answer the question she poses-
<span style="background:white">Who do you think is more difficult to face, oppressive governments or oppressive societies?</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Something<b> to listen to…</b></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Race Traitor is a new podcast series by Heart Radio.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.theheartradio.org/race-traitor/2020/5/5/who-taught-you-to-be-white-1-of-4"><span style="color:#1155CC">
In this episode Phoebe</span></a><span style="color:black"> learns and unpacks the surprising ways in which she is upholding white supremacy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:#FEFEFE">Something fun:</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:#FEFEFE">We’ll probably be wearing face masks for a while, so a shopping spree might be in order.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/market/face_mask"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:#FEFEFE">Etsy has many great options</span></a><span style="color:black;background:#FEFEFE">,
including from local businesses. Here are some </span><a href="https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/stylish-face-masks-to-shop-now"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:#FEFEFE">recommendations by Vogue</span></a><span style="color:black;background:#FEFEFE">.
Instructions for making your own: </span><a href="https://www.thespruce.com/no-sew-mask-4801991"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:#FEFEFE">without sewing</span></a><span style="color:black;background:#FEFEFE">,
</span><a href="https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-sew-face-mask-4802114"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:#FEFEFE">with sewing</span></a><span style="color:black;background:#FEFEFE">, and another
</span><a href="https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-make-a-reusable-mask-4802172"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:#FEFEFE">reusable one</span></a><span style="color:black;background:#FEFEFE">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303">Virtual Events & Opportunities</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Virtual International Film Series</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Join MIT Global Languages for the launch of our Virtual International Film Series! (see our
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://mitgsl.mit.edu/virtual-international-film-series"><span style="color:#1155CC">site</span></a><span style="color:#222222"> for the full series list) </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303">Indigenous Communities Fellowship</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303">The MIT Solve</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/2020-indigenous-communities-fellowship"><span style="color:#030303">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">Indigenous Communities Fellowship</span></a><span style="color:#030303"> is entering its third year and they are seeking Indigenous-led solutions that drive social, environmental, and economic impact in Native communities
across the US. Solutions can be at any stage of development, and use any business model – non-profit, for-profit, and anywhere in between. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303">The deadline to submit is July 7, 2020</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303"> and the
Fellowship offers <b>US$10,000 in funding support to each selected Fellow</b>. The Fellowship provides a 9 month program of support that includes a comprehensive resource needs assessment, technical/business mentorship, and tailored connections to a global
network of companies, foundations, NGOs, and more. <b>If you guys know anyone in your communities who might be interested, please share!
</b>AISES has gotten to meet with the Fellows the last two times around and it was always so cool chatting with Native entrepreneurs and inventors from all over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303">Celebrate Pride Month with LBGTQ@MIT!<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Join the Rainbow Lounge for a series of virtual events for the MIT LBGTQ+ community and beyond, including:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">#MITPride2020</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">LBGTQ+ Services is closing out Pride 2020 with a virtual self-love and celebration. Send a photo of yourself/your
family/your loved ones and a short caption on how you celebrate pride month to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lmcnair@mit.edu"><span style="color:#00006A">lmcnair@mit.edu</span></a>. These photos from the MIT community will be
put up on LBGTQ+ Services social media accounts<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rainbow_lounge_mit/"><span style="color:#00006A">Instagram</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/lbgtMIT"><span style="color:#00006A">Twitter</span></a>,
and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lbgt.mit/"><span style="color:#00006A">Facebook</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>throughout June 30<sup>th</sup>. Please email<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lmcnair@mit.edy"><span style="color:#00006A">lmcnair@mit.edu</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>no
later than<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#BF0000">Monday, June 29<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>12pm EST.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#BF0000"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">To view the full calendar, visit<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://lbgtq.mit.edu/digital-content"><span style="color:#00006A">https://lbgtq.mit.edu/digital-content</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>or
follow LBGTQ@MIT on:</b> Twitter:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/lbgtMIT"><span style="color:#00006A">@lbgtmit</span></a>, Instagram:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rainbow_lounge_mit/"><span style="color:#00006A">@rainbow_lounge_mit</span></a>,
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lbgt.mit/">@lbgt.mit</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303">Postdoc/Graduate Student Opportunities at UCLA</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303">Course 6 PhD (2014) graduate and Assistant Professor at UCLA, Dr. Clarice D. Aiello, is looking for postdocs and graduate students to join her lab. Please see
the message and description below. Contact information can be found in the attached description.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“We are searching for postdoctoral candidates with AMO physics experience
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as well as graduate students from a broad set of backgrounds (ex.: Phys, <br>
EE, Chem, BioE). Our group, QuBiT, seeks to establish the extent to which quantum
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mechanics accounts for biologically relevant phenomena, and can be <br>
manipulated to technological and therapeutic advantage. I'm glad to talk to anyone who might be interested.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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