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<div><font color="#0000FF"><b>TODAY</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000FF"><b>Postdoc Boot Camp - Tuesday, January 22,
2008, 1pm, 68-181</b></font></div>
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<div>Whether you're new to MIT or have been here awhile, you're sure
to learn something from this panel discussion with staff from the
Office of the Provost, Controller's Office, the Medical
Department, the Housing Office and the Office of Sponsored Programs,
and a member of the Postdoctoral Scholars Advisory Council.</div>
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<div>Please join our panelists: Marilyn Smith, Office of the Provost,
Brenda Minesinger, Dept. of Biology, Fred Crowley, Controller's
Office, Lucy Walsh, Medical Dept., Linda Patton, Off-Campus Housing,
Alicia Hunt, On-Campus Housing, and Colleen Leslie, Office of
Sponsored Programs.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><i><b>Week of January 21-25<br>
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</b></i><b>Patent Searching Fundamentals (Li)</b><br>
<i>Darcy Duke, Howard Silver</i><br>
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 25
participants.<br>
While you won't come out of this session qualified to be a patent
attorney, you will be able to successfully find patent references from
all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams.
The session will be a hands-on practicum that will help de-mystify the
patent literature and expose attendees to key resources for finding
patents through free resources available on the web.<br>
Web:</font><font color="#00669A"><u>
http://libraries.mit.edu/patents</u></font><font color="#000000"><br>
Contact: Darcy Duke, 10-500, x3-9370,</font><font color="#0000FF"><u>
darcy@mit.edu</u></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>Tue Jan 22, 12-01:00pm, 14N-132,
DIRC<br>
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Negotiating the Offer (CO)<br>
</b><i>Bob Richard</i><br>
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below) Signup by:
07-Jan-2008<br>
Learn how to negotiate job offers and what is negotiable. Develop an
action plan for before, during and after negotiations. Determine your
worth. Please register at the website below.<br>
Web:</font><font color="#00669A"><u>
http://web.mit.edu/career/www/events/workshops.html</u></font><font
color="#000000"><br>
Contact: Bob Richard, 12-170, x3-4733,</font><font color="#0000FF"><u>
rrichard@mit.edu<br>
</u></font><font color="#000000"><b>Wed Jan 23, 02-04:00pm, 56-154<br>
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Women in Science (Bio)</b><br>
<i>Tania Baker, Jackie Lees, Dianne Newman<br>
</i>Growing numbers of women in science have greatly advanced progress
in research in stellar leaps; however, there are still specific
challenges faced by women in academic science even today. Faculty will
share with us their experiences.<br>
<b>Wed Jan 23, 03-04:00pm, 68-181<br>
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Where's the Money? Information Sources for Awarded Research Funding
(Li)</b><i><br>
Courtney Crummett</i><br>
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 20
participants.<br>
Are you curious about already-awarded grants in your field of study?
Wondering where grant money goes and what for? Want to know what
grants NASA, NSF or NIH are funding? This hands-on session will covers
the primary web resources of grant funding in the sciences. Attendees
will find out what information these resources cover, what data they
contain, and how to navigate them. Although this session will not
cover how to write a grant, knowing where the money goes will improve
your research and grant writing skills.<br>
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 324-8290, crummett@mit.edu<br>
<b>Thu Jan 24, 11am-12:00pm, DIRC 14N-132<br>
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Managing your references: Overview of EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero
(Li)</b><br>
<i>Remlee Green, Mathew Willmott, Howard Silver</i><br>
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up<br>
Using citation management software to create and maintain a collection
of references is becoming more common and important in today's
academic world. These software packages allow users to search
databases, retrieve relevant citations, and build a bibliography to be
added to a paper or thesis or stored for future reference. But which
software package should you use, and how do you get started? This
session will focus on EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero, the three major
options for bibliographic software at MIT. We will include a
discussion comparing and contrasting the three softwares, and we will
introduce some of the basic concepts and functionality of each
program.<br>
20 computers are available; first-come first-served. Attendees are
welcome to bring their laptops.<br>
Contact: Remlee Green, 14S-134, (617) 253-4088,</font><font
color="#0000FF"><u> remlee@mit.edu<br>
</u></font><font color="#000000"><b>Thu Jan 24, 12-01:00pm,
14N-132</b></font></div>
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Consulting & Venture Capital (Bio)</b><br>
<i>Philina Lee, Greg Hersch, Douglas Fambrough<br>
</i>The business of Biology is booming! This seminar features Venture
Capitalists,which finance biological enterprises, and Consultants that
suggest the best way to merge business and Biology. Come listen and
speak with PhDs who have madethe transition from benchwork to the
business world at companies such as Heath Advances, Boston Consulting
Group & Oxford BioScience Partners.<br>
<b>Fri Jan 25, 01-02:30pm, 68-181<br>
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Policy Analysis (CO)</b><br>
<i>Hannah Bernstein, Deborah Rosencrans</i><br>
Will inform about careers in Policy Analysis.<br>
<b>Fri Jan 25, 03-04:30pm, 4-237</b></font><br>
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