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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">The Faculty Postdoc Advisory
Committee (FPAC) is currently working on putting together a short guide for
interactions between Postdocs and their Advisors. The guide will take the form
of a brochure that gets handed to both Postdocs and Advisors for them to go
over together during their first meeting in addition to discussing career goals
and research plans. The goal of this guide is to help improve the
postdoc/advisor relationship by setting proper expectations from the start,
establishing guidelines for professional interactions, and improving
communication. <br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">

</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Select officers from the MIT PDA sit
in the FPAC Committee, but we would like to request feedback regarding the
content of this guide from the broader postdoc community. Please fill out the
very brief form below. It should take you less than 1 min. Please submit your feedback by Thursday 5/11/17.<br></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">

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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/cPXBuWJnAL6rrW6u1" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://goo.gl/forms/cPXBuWJnAL6rrW6u1</span></a> </font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">

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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">If you have any questions or would
like to get more involved in the drafting of this guide, please email me at <a href="mailto:pda-president@mit.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">pda-president@mit.edu</span></a>.
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Best,</font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">

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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Augusto Tentori</font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"> MIT PDA President</font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>

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