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<div>Greetings, MIT Postdocs!</div>
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<div>Would you like to meet more faculty? Would a periodic
one-on-one discussion with a faculty member help you with career
guidance and goal setting? Mentoring programs throughout
academia and industry are a means of helping junior talent along their
career path, and now MIT has developed a pilot mentoring program just
for postdocs!</div>
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<div>The Postdoc Pilot Mentoring Program has been developed by the
Postdoctoral Advisory Council and supported by Dr. Alice Gast, MIT's
Vice President for Research. The goal is to facilitate discussions
about careers and goal setting and to provide a setting for
discussions about career choices and progression through the
postdoctoral tenure with a faculty member in addition to the mentoring
received from one's primary faculty advisor. For the pilot,
faculty members from the following MIT Departments have volunteered to
serve as mentors to postdocs outside of their research group:</div>
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<div>Biology, Center for Cancer Research, Chemistry, Materials
Science, Biological Engineering, Physics, Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Chemical Engineering</div>
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<div>If this sounds interesting to you, please respond to this email
and accept the following invitation:</div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000080"><b>Please join Dr. Alice
Gast, MIT's VP for Research,</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000080"><b>faculty mentors and the
Postdoctoral Advisory Council</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000080"><b>for a wine and cheese
reception to kick-off the</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#800080"><i><b>Mentoring Postdocs @
MIT</b></i></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000080"><b>Pilot
Program</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000080"><b>Wednesday, December
8th</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000080"><b>4-6 PM</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000080"><b>Common area outside
the</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000080"><b>R&D Pub at the Stata
Center</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000080"><b>4th
floor</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000080"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#FF0000">Pre-registration is required
as space is limited to 60 postdoctoral scholars.</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#FF0000">If you are interested in
attending the kickoff, and participating in the Mentoring Pilot for
this academic year, please reply to:</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#FF0000"><b>Janet Fischer at
jfischer@mit.edu</b></font></div>
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<div>More details on the process will be provided, but for now, you
should consider the kick-off event as an invitation to meet
interesting faculty who will be available for conversation and
possibly a longer-term mentoring relationship.</div>
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<div>Thank you,</div>
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<div>Kirsten Edepli, Anna Schulze Lutum, and Hauke Kolster, Postdoc
Advisory Council</div>
<div>Janet Fischer and Marilyn Smith, Administrative Staff to
Postdocs</div>
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