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IN BRIEF

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Notices:

1. The International Graduate Student Mentorship Program



Events:

2. [Tue 8/3] The Nuts and Bolts of an Academic Job Search (3:30 – 5  
pm, 32-123)



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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1. The International Graduate Student Mentorship Program helps new  
incoming graduate students transition to graduate student life at MIT.  
We pair the student with a current graduate student or alumnus  
according to MIT department, country of origin, interests, etc. The  
incoming student will be in e-mail contact with his/her mentor during  
the summer prior to arriving at MIT. During the fall Orientation, the  
new student will have the opportunity to meet his/her mentor at the  
International Dance Festival and Mentorship Mixer, September 11th 6-9  
pm (W20).

Sign up at http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFVmX1hlOXA5SXJPc1Jyb0RqS3dBQ1E6MQ 
  by August 15, 2010.  Matches will be made shortly after the signup  
deadline and will be communicated by email.  Thanks and we hope to see  
you at the September mixer!



2. Academic Career Series: "The Nuts and Bolts of an Academic Job  
Search"


When: Tuesday, August 3, 3:30pm - 5:00pm


Where: 32-123


Contact: Simona Nedelcu or Sumeet Kumar at gsc-arc at mit.edu



Register: https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student/ , under Workshops,  
Career Fairs and Events

Considering an academic career? Wondering how to mount a successful  
job search in a highly competitive academic job market? Come and hear  
how others have done it.

This seminar will feature faculty panelists who successfully landed a  
position. Speakers will outline an effective search strategy, and  
provide insight into the faculty selection process, priorities of  
faculty/academic search committees compared with industrial  
organizations, academic job interviewing techniques, and how the  
increasingly competitive job market is changing the faculty search  
process.

Panelists will be:

- Jeffrey M. Karp, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Harvard-MIT  
Division of Health Sciences and Technology

- Armando Solar-Lezama, PhD, Assistant Professor at MIT, Computer  
Aided Programming Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence  
Laboratory

-Cullen Buie, PhD, Assistant Professor at MIT, Department of  
Mechanical Engineering


Sponsors: MIT Career Development Center, Postdoc Advisory Council,  
Graduate Student Council
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