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size="-1"><b>From:</b> Elizabeth MacNabb
[mailto:emacnabb@centre.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> emacnabb@colleges.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Wayne Anderson<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Postdoctoral Fellows in Environmental
Studies</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Book Antiqua" size="-1">Dear
Dean/Provost of the Graduate School,</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Book Antiqua" size="-1">The
Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) is a consortium of sixteen
nationally recognized, distinguished liberal arts colleges and
universities (</font><a
href="http://www.colleges.org/institutions.html"><font
face="Book Antiqua"
size="-1">http://www.colleges.org/institutions.html</font></a><font
face="Book Antiqua" size="-1">), located in twelve southern states
(see map at</font> <a
href="http://www.colleges.org/acsmap.html"><font face="Book Antiqua"
size="-1">http://www.colleges.org/acsmap.html</font></a><font
face="Book Antiqua" size="-1">). Since 1998, our institutions have
grown increasingly stronger in the field of Environmental Studies, and
because of our excellent faculty and strong student interest, we
continue to thrive in this academic area. Therefore we were gratified
recently when the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the consortium
$3.5 million to create postdoctoral Fellow positions in Environmental
Studies at our institutions.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Book Antiqua" size="-1">With
these funds, we will hire 24 new Ph.D.'s at approximately $45,000 per
year (plus benefits and travel funds). For two years each, those
Ph.D.'s will teach 2-3 environmental studies courses per year. They
will also have plenty of time for research, and will be mentored by
seasoned professors in their fields. In addition, Fellows will have
many excellent opportunities to discover the advantages of teaching at
small private liberal arts institutions while they engage in creative
exchanges with faculty at all 16 of our
institutions.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Book Antiqua"
size="-1">Obviously, we would like to recruit topnotch young Ph.D.'s
to fill these postdoctoral positions. With your help, we would like to
begin by focusing our search within member institutions of the
Association of American Universities. Therefore, I am writing to
request a contact name and email address of a graduate advisor at your
institution to help us identify promising young Ph.D.'s who might be
interested in this opportunity. If at all possible, we would like this
contact information by the first week of October.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Book Antiqua" size="-1">We
thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter, and hope that
our future collaboration will be beneficial to your institution as
well as to our own colleges and universities.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Book Antiqua" size="-1">All
best wishes, --E. MacNabb</font></blockquote>
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color="#09A3B1"><b>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Book Antiqua" size="-1"
color="#140BC1"><i>Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD</i></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Book Antiqua" size="-1"
color="#140BC1"><i>Director, Programs in Sustainability and the
Environment</i></font></blockquote>
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color="#140BC1"><i>www.colleges.org/enviro</i></font></a></blockquote>
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color="#140BC1"><i>Associated Colleges of the
South</i></font></blockquote>
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color="#140BC1"><i>Wiseman 102, Centre College</i></font></blockquote>
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color="#140BC1"><i>Danville</i></font><font size="-1"
color="#140BC1"><i>, KY 40422</i></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Book Antiqua" size="-1"
color="#140BC1"><i>859.238.6234/fax
859.238.6226</i></font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">Janet E.
Fischer<br>
Graduate Administrator<br>
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering<br>
and Computer Science, 38-444</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000">617-253-4648</font></blockquote>
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Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager<br>
MIT<br>
Vice President for Research Office, Rm 11-268<br>
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Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
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