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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Postdoctoral Scholars,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">The MIT Climate Nucleus, which is responsible for the implementation of Fast Forward: MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade, is in the process of standing up three working groups called for in the plan. MIT students, staff, faculty,
and <b><i>postdocs</i></b> who would like to be considered for one of the working groups should submit brief expressions of interest to the Nucleus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">There are three working groups: education, policy, and campus carbon footprint.
<b>If you would like to be considered for a working group, please send a note to <a href="mailto:climate_nucleus@mit.edu"><span style="color:black">climate_nucleus@mit.edu</span></a> by Wednesday, December 8, 2021</b>, and include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Which working group(s) you’d like to be considered for<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">A very brief (no more than one paragraph) statement about your interest in the working group<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Your department, lab, or center (as applicable)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="color:black">Working group members are expected to serve for at least one year, with renewal for second year possible. The working group meetings schedules and activities will be set by the working groups after they are established.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For more information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://climate.mit.edu/posts/call-expressions-interest-climate-working-groups">https://climate.mit.edu/posts/call-expressions-interest-climate-working-groups</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:#C00000">Ann Skoczenski, PhD</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black">Director of Postdoctoral Services</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black">Office of the Vice President for Research</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://postdocs.mit.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://postdocs.mit.edu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:annskocz@mit.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">annskocz@mit.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black">“While it is always best to believe in oneself, a little help from
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif;color:black">others can be a great blessing.” –Uncle Iroh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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