Postdoc Boot Camp Today & Other IAP Events Week of Jan. 21

[Marilyn T. Smith]

TODAY
Postdoc Boot Camp - Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 1pm, 68-181

Whether you're new to MIT or have been here awhile, you're sure to 
learn something from this panel discussion with staff from the Office 
of the Provost, Controller's Office,  the Medical Department, the 
Housing Office and the Office of Sponsored Programs, and a member of 
the Postdoctoral Scholars Advisory Council.

Please join our panelists: Marilyn Smith, Office of the Provost, 
Brenda Minesinger, Dept. of Biology, Fred Crowley, Controller's 
Office, Lucy Walsh, Medical Dept., Linda Patton, Off-Campus Housing, 
Alicia Hunt, On-Campus Housing, and Colleen Leslie, Office of 
Sponsored Programs.


Week of January 21-25

Patent Searching Fundamentals (Li)
Darcy Duke, Howard Silver
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 25 participants.
While you won't come out of this session qualified to be a patent 
attorney, you will be able to successfully find patent references 
from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and 
diagrams. The session will be a hands-on practicum that will help 
de-mystify the patent literature and expose attendees to key 
resources for finding patents through free resources available on the 
web.
Web: http://libraries.mit.edu/patents
Contact: Darcy Duke, 10-500, x3-9370, darcy at mit.edu
Tue Jan 22, 12-01:00pm, 14N-132, DIRC

Negotiating the Offer (CO)
Bob Richard
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below) Signup by: 
07-Jan-2008
Learn how to negotiate job offers and what is negotiable. Develop an 
action plan for before, during and after negotiations. Determine your 
worth. Please register at the website below.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/career/www/events/workshops.html
Contact: Bob Richard, 12-170, x3-4733, rrichard at mit.edu
Wed Jan 23, 02-04:00pm, 56-154

Women in Science (Bio)
Tania Baker, Jackie Lees, Dianne Newman
Growing numbers of women in science have greatly advanced progress in 
research in stellar leaps; however, there are still specific 
challenges faced by women in academic science even today. Faculty 
will share with us their experiences.
Wed Jan 23, 03-04:00pm, 68-181

Where's the Money? Information Sources for Awarded Research Funding (Li)
Courtney Crummett
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 20 participants.
Are you curious about already-awarded grants in your field of study? 
Wondering where grant money goes and what for? Want to know what 
grants NASA, NSF or NIH are funding? This hands-on session will 
covers the primary web resources of grant funding in the sciences. 
Attendees will find out what information these resources cover, what 
data they contain, and how to navigate them. Although this session 
will not cover how to write a grant, knowing where the money goes 
will improve your research and grant writing skills.
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 324-8290, crummett at mit.edu
Thu Jan 24, 11am-12:00pm, DIRC 14N-132

Managing your references: Overview of EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero (Li)
Remlee Green, Mathew Willmott, Howard Silver
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Using citation management software to create and maintain a 
collection of references is becoming more common and important in 
today's academic world. These software packages allow users to search 
databases, retrieve relevant citations, and build a bibliography to 
be added to a paper or thesis or stored for future reference. But 
which software package should you use, and how do you get started? 
This session will focus on EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero, the three 
major options for bibliographic software at MIT. We will include a 
discussion comparing and contrasting the three softwares, and we will 
introduce some of the basic concepts and functionality of each 
program.
20 computers are available; first-come first-served. Attendees are 
welcome to bring their laptops.
Contact: Remlee Green, 14S-134, (617) 253-4088, remlee at mit.edu
Thu Jan 24, 12-01:00pm, 14N-132

Consulting & Venture Capital (Bio)
Philina Lee, Greg Hersch, Douglas Fambrough
The business of Biology is booming! This seminar features Venture 
Capitalists,which finance biological enterprises, and Consultants 
that suggest the best way to merge business and Biology. Come listen 
and speak with PhDs who have madethe transition from benchwork to the 
business world at companies such as Heath Advances, Boston Consulting 
Group & Oxford BioScience Partners.
Fri Jan 25, 01-02:30pm, 68-181

Policy Analysis (CO)
Hannah Bernstein, Deborah Rosencrans
Will inform about careers in Policy Analysis.
Fri Jan 25, 03-04:30pm, 4-237
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