[Gsc-anno] Foxwoods, Awards, Irwin Jacobs, Re-Generator, YourPhD, MGH Research (18Feb09)

[Lorenna Lee-Houghton]

**************************  GSC ANNOUNCEMENTS  *************************
    more extensive announcements online: http://gsc.mit.edu
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headlines (details below):

	     1. Trip to Foxwoods
		Feb 18th, 12-10pm

	     2. Institute Awards 2009
		Submit Your Nominations!

	     3. Irwin Jacobs Distinguished Lecture
		Feb 19th, 4:30pm, 10-250

	     4. MIT Re-Generator
		Feb 19th, 6:30pm, R&D Commons

	     5. The Smart Way to Your Ph.D.
		www.yourphd.com

	     6. MGH Research Help Needed

details:
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*Trip to Foxwoods Casino!*

Saturday, February 28th - bus leaves MIT at noon and returns at 10:00PM

Ticket includes:
- coach bus transportation to Foxwoods Resort and Casino
- buffet dinner (or $10 meal voucher)
- $10 in Keno tickets
- entry to win a cruise

Tickets cost $15 for MIT graduate students and $18 for guests
(max 1 guest/student).

Tickets (and more info) available NOW at http://gsc.mit.edu/foxwoods

Must be 21+ to attend this event.  Bring age ID to enter casino.
Questions?  Email gsc-ac at mit.edu.
Sponsored by the MIT GSC and MIT Club of Boston.

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*Institute Awards - Call for Nominations*

Each year, the MIT Awards Convocation and the Graduate Student Council
honor faculty, students, and staff at MIT who have had a positive impact
on the graduate student experience. We are now inviting nominations
for the following awards recognizing outstanding devotion and talent:

* Graduate Teaching Awards, presented each year to a faculty member
and/or a teaching assistant from each school.

* Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising,
presented to a faculty member, who as a graduate student advisor,
demonstrates unbounded compassion and dedication towards students.

* Edward L. Horton Fellowship Award, presented to any student(s) or
student group that fosters fellowship within the graduate student
community.

* Irwin Sizer Award for Most Significant Improvement to MIT
Education, presented to a member or group in the Institute community
to honor significant innovations and improvements to MIT education.

The deadline for submitting nominations this year is
Friday, March 13, 2009.

You may submit nominations or obtain more information about the
awards at: http://gsc.mit.edu/awards or http://web.mit.edu/awards.

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*Irwin Jacobs: School of Engineering Distinguished Lecture*

February 19th at 4:30pm in 10-250

Irwin Jacobs will give the inaugural lecture in the new School of
Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series. An alumnus and former
faculty member in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, Jacobs cofounded and is now chairman of Qualcomm
Incorporated. His talk is titled “From Information Theory Courses at
MIT to Providing Chips and Technology for a World with Four Billion
Cellular Subscribers: Memories and a Look Ahead.”  He will share
stories from the front lines of the digital communications revolution,
as well insight from his perspective of unparalleled depth, on the
future of technology.

Cosponsored this year by the Microsystems Technology Laboratories,
the School of Engineering Distinguished Lectures are intended to be
regular opportunities for the engineering community and the Institute
at large to come together to hear from leaders and pioneers in the
engineering disciplines.

For more information, please visit http://engineering.mit.edu/news.

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*MIT Re-Generator!*

If not here, then where? Come see how MIT students are transforming
our campus and solving real world energy and environmental problems.
Join the MIT Re-Generator:  Thurs, Feb 19, 6:30PM, Stata, R&D Commons

Pitch an idea, join a team, or contribute your thoughts to make campus
better: great for meeting students, researchers, or practitioners in
the energy and environment fields!

Thursday, Feb 19, 6:30 to 9:00PM
Stata Center, R&D Commons (4th Floor)
(Food will be served)

   SPARK a new project team
             or
   PLUG INTO an existing one

http://sustainability.mit.edu/generator

FUNDING AVAILABLE: Working groups who pull together an exciting project
have the opportunity to be funded by the MIT Energy Initiative.

If you have questions about the Generator, contact
Chris Kempes <ckempes at mit.edu> or Carrie Brown <carrieb at mit.edu>

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*The Smart Way to Your Ph.D.*

Are you trying to graduate within a reasonable amount of time?
I was a student at MIT a few years ago as well (B.S. ’98, Ph.D.’04),
and I recently published “The Smart Way to Your Ph.D.: 200 Secrets
from 100 Graduates.” This book compiles practical advice from
100 Ph.D.s (including professors), and information about fellowships,
research databases and job-searching guides.

I recently launched “Your Ph.D. Newsletter,” a free electronic
publication with even more resources about graduate school.

If you would to find out more about my book (and read reviews by MIT
professors), or to browse my newsletters, please visit my website at:
www.yourphd.com.

Wishing you the best, Dora Farkas, Ph.D. ’04.

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*MGH Research*

Research Help Needed

Take a 10-minute mental health screening survey from Massachusetts
General Hospital for research and you could win a $200 Visa gift card.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=AuQmZYNFo4ZLSLuuE7W1tw_3d_3d

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______________________
Lorenna Lee-Houghton
GSC Secretary, 2008-2009





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