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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">The MIT Postdoctoral Association is looking for a new Co-chair for the Community Building Committee (CBC) for 2016. <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you enjoy creating opportunities
for postdocs to come together with each other and other members of the Greater Boston Community,</span> please consider serving as a CBC Co-Chair. </font><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">We also need volunteers for the CBC - if you would
like to help suggest, organize, or run events that will strengthen the postdoc community at MIT, let us know and we would love to have you on the committee. The goals of the CBC are posted below.</span></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">P</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">lease get in touch with Virginia (</span><a href="mailto:virgy@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">virgy@mit.edu</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">),
Paulo (</span><a href="mailto:pagarcia@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pagarcia@mit.edu</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">), or Farrokh (</span><a href="mailto:farrokh@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">farrokh@mit.edu</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)
this week i</span></font><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">f you are interested in chairing or volunteering with the CBC.</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> We
will set up a meeting for next week (Dec. 7-11) with interested postdocs to go over the positions in more detail. We would like to have a new chair lined up by the next PDA meeting on December 14. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Thanks!</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Virginia, Paulo, and Farrokh </font></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="http://pda.mit.edu/get-involved-in-the-pda/">CBC Goals</a>: </font></span></div>
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<li><font face="Verdana" size="2">Encourage participation and involvement within the MIT community</font></li><li><font face="Verdana" size="2">Enlist the support of MIT postdoctoral trainees towards PDA efforts through committee participation and involvement</font></li><li><font face="Verdana" size="2">Organize networking and social events that create a supportive peer group and integrate postdocs into the larger MIT community</font></li></ul>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Virginia M. Burger</font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.rle.mit.edu/cbg/default.htm"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Stultz Lab</font></a></div>
<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</font></div>
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