MIT Postdoc News - 3 items

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

*(1) Quick survey request from the MIT Postdoctoral Association Advocacy 
Chair:*

Dear Postdocs,

We are conducting a survey to determine how many postdocs use MIT's gym services. This survey should take about 1 minute to complete. Please follow the link below.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEV1QlEwZGJ5OUphaWNQa0dhMlNYOUE6MQ

Thank you for your participation,

Ana Jaklenec
PDA Advocacy Chair


*(2.) **From Path-of-Professorship Team 2011**  - MIT Path of 
Professorship Workshop - Apply by **Oct. 5*

Dear Women Graduate Students and Post-docs,

Are you considering a career in academia?  Are you going to be seeking a 
position in the next couple of years?  Are you concerned about 
navigating the application and tenure process?

The Office of the Dean of Graduate Education is pleased to announce the 
opening of this year's application to our Path of Professorship 
workshop.  This workshop is designed to provide graduate and 
post-doctoral women with information about academic scientific careers 
and the application process.  Each year we are able to gather a 
wonderful group of female professors from MIT and beyond to talk about 
their experiences in academia.  This year is no different and we are 
expecting an exciting and informative weekend.

Path of Professorship will run from Friday, October 28th at 1pm through 
Saturday, October 29th at 5pm and cover topics ranging from "What 
Institution is Right for You?" to "The Tenure Process." More information 
is available at http://odge.mit.edu/development/pop/

The application for Path of Professorship is now open and available at 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dEhfclpfYU9paEo3TmhON1BQTHVnTFE6MQ

The application will close on October 5th and selected applicants will 
be notified shortly thereafter.

We strongly encourage all women with an interest in academia to apply.

Yours truly,

Path-of-Professorship Team 2011
This workshop is sponsored by the MIT Office of the Dean for Graduate 
Education

(*3)**From Johanna Wolfson President, MIT Science Policy Initiative 
<http://web.mit.edu/spi>*
Are you an MIT PhD student, postdoc, or young faculty member passionate 
about science communication or science policy? Here's an opportunity to 
spend 2 weeks in London working with Sense about Science (all expenses 
paid). Sense about Science equips people to make sense of scientific and 
medical claims in public discussion -- please see the attached file for 
more details.
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