TODAY: Maximizing the Postdoctoral Period - 3-4:30 pm in 46-3002 - Reminder

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

*Maximizing the Postdoctoral Period*    *REMINDER*

*Speakers - MIT faculty members:* *Catherine Drennan*, HHMI Professor 
and Investigator, Departments of Chemistry and Biology and *John 
Leonard,* Associate Department Head/Professor, Department of Mechanical 
Engineering

Date and Time: *March 18, 2015, 3-4:30 pm *- TODAY
Location: *Singleton Auditorium, Building 46-3002*
Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research

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Hear suggestions from two MIT faculty members for getting the most out 
of an MIT postdoctoral experience. They will address questions and 
others you may raise, including:

  * Outside of research, what should a postdoc be learning?
  * What are some mechanisms to improve communication skills and other
    non-lab bench skills?
  * How can postdocs best prepare for faculty positions, and present
    themselves as compelling candidates?
  * What are effective strategies for evaluating and preparing for a
    nonacademic path?
  * What are ways to strengthen communication with faculty supervisors
    and other mentors?

*About the Speakers:*

Professor *Catherine Drennan *is a professor of chemistry and biology at 
MIT, and a professor and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical 
Institute. Professor Drennan is one of four MIT professors who have been 
named 2015 MacVicar Faculty Fellows, awarded for exceptional 
undergraduate teaching, mentoring, and educational innovation. She 
received an A.B. in chemistry from Vassar College, working in the 
laboratory of Professor Miriam Rossi, and a Ph.D. in biological 
chemistry from the University of Michigan, working in the laboratory of 
the late Professor Martha L. Ludwig. She was also a postdoctoral fellow 
with Professor Douglas C. Rees at the California Institute of 
Technology. In 1999, she joined the faculty at the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, where she has risen through the ranks to full 
Professor. Her research interests lie at the interface of chemistry and 
biology. Her laboratory seeks to understand how Nature harnesses and 
re-directs the reactivity of enzyme metallocenters in order to perform 
challenging reactions. By combining X-ray crystallography with other 
biophysical methods, her goal is to "visualize" molecular processes by 
obtaining snapshots of enzymes in action.

*John J. Leonard* is Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean 
Engineering and Associate Department Head for Research in the MIT 
Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also a member of the MIT 
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research 
addresses the problems of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile 
robots.He holds the degrees of B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering and 
Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1987) and D.Phil. in 
Engineering Science from the University of Oxford (1994). Prof. Leonard 
joined the MIT faculty in 1996, after five years as a Post-Doctoral 
Fellow and Research Scientist in the MIT Sea Grant Autonomous Underwater 
Vehicle (AUV) Laboratory. He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award 
(1998), an E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award from Science Foundation Ireland 
(2004), the King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Transactions on Robotics Paper 
Award (2006), and he is an IEEE Fellow (2014).

*Both speakers serve on the MIT Faculty-Postdoc Advisory Committee.*


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