Mentoring Pilot for Postdocs

[Janet Fischer]

Greetings, MIT Postdocs!

Would you like to meet more faculty?  Would a periodic one-on-one 
discussion with a faculty member help you with career guidance and 
goal setting?  Mentoring programs throughout academia and industry 
are a means of helping junior talent along their career path, and now 
MIT has developed a pilot mentoring program just for postdocs!

The Postdoc Pilot Mentoring Program has been developed by the 
Postdoctoral Advisory Council and supported by Dr. Alice Gast, MIT's 
Vice President for Research. The goal is to facilitate discussions 
about careers and goal setting and to provide a setting for 
discussions about career choices and progression through the 
postdoctoral tenure with a faculty member in addition to the 
mentoring received from one's primary faculty advisor.  For the 
pilot, faculty members from the following MIT Departments have 
volunteered to serve as mentors to postdocs outside of their research 
group:

Biology, Center for Cancer Research, Chemistry, Materials Science, 
Biological Engineering, Physics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 
Chemical Engineering

If this sounds interesting to you, please respond to this email and 
accept the following invitation:

Please join Dr. Alice Gast, MIT's VP for Research,
faculty mentors and the Postdoctoral Advisory Council
for a wine and cheese reception to kick-off the

Mentoring Postdocs @ MIT
Pilot Program

Wednesday, December 8th
4-6 PM
Common area outside the
R&D Pub at the Stata Center
4th floor

Pre-registration is required as space is limited to 60 postdoctoral scholars.
If you are interested in attending the kickoff, and participating in 
the Mentoring Pilot for this academic year, please reply to:
Janet Fischer at jfischer at mit.edu

More details on the process will be provided, but for now, you should 
consider the kick-off event as an invitation to meet interesting 
faculty who will be available for conversation and possibly a 
longer-term mentoring relationship.

Thank you,

Kirsten Edepli, Anna Schulze Lutum, and Hauke Kolster, Postdoc Advisory Council
Janet Fischer and Marilyn Smith, Administrative Staff to Postdocs

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M.I.T. Office of the Provost
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