We invite all members of the MIT Community to join us for the second annual community service day, CityDays IAP!
Friday, January 25, 11am-5pm
First, have a free lunch at Twenty Chimneys. Then, head out into the Cambridge and Boston communities to volunteer with two local organizations:
1) The Greater Boston Food Bank, Boston, works to end hunger in eastern Massachusetts. Volunteers will be inspecting, sorting, and repacking donated grocery products to be distributed to hunger relief agencies.
2) Cradles to Crayons provides poor and homeless children with supplies. Volunteers will be sorting and packaging donations into "C2C KidPacks," individualized packages of essential children's items ordered for specific in-need kids.
Public transportation to/from the service placement will be provided.
To participate, staff members need to gain permission from their supervisors to be released during normal work hours.
Please register by January 22nd!
Contact with questions or comments: Amy Fan and Kristi Gundrum Kebinger, MIT Public Service Center, W20-549, (617) 253-8968, serviceday@mit.edu
This event is sponsored by the MIT Public Service Center through generous donations from the MIT Coop & MIT Community Service Fund.
• Find a great volunteer opportunity at the MIT Community Service Fair! (2/4)
Looking to give back to your community? Build your resume? Acquire new skills? Broaden your horizons? Then come to the Spring 2013 MIT Community Service Fair! Don't miss your chance to meet over 30 local nonprofit organizations and find a great service opportunity!
Monday, February 4, 2013, 1:00-3:00pm
Lobby 10 and the Bush Room (10-105)
This event is open to the entire MIT Community, will have free food, and is sponsored by the MIT Public Service Center. For more information, contact servicefair@mit.edu.
• Register your team for the FSILG&D Community Service Challenge (Deadline: 2/5)
The FSILG&D Service Challenge encourages teams of fraternity, sorority, independent living group, and dorm participants to compete for the Service Cup over a two-month period February through April. Teams are encouraged to serve the community as a community.
In addition to helping community organizations and the populations they serve, participation in the Service Challenge certainly has its benefits for participants. Registered teams have the chance to win Service Cup winner bragging rights, publicity of team service undertakings, access to exclusive alternative spring break funding, $2,000 in service implementation funding for the upcoming academic year, meaningful opportunities for team bonding, and an acquisition of knowledge about the local community.
Register your team for the 2013 Service Challenge by February 6 at 5pm (More information about the Service Challenge can be found on the PSC’s website or by emailing servicechallenge@mit.edu.
• Apply for Alternative Spring Break funding for your Service Challenge team (Deadline: 3/1)
Teams registered to compete in the FSILG&D Community Service Challenge (register here by 2/5: http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/whatwedo/volunteering/programs/fsilgd/registration.html) may apply to subsidize one alternative spring break (ASB) project for their FSILG or dorm members.
It takes time to coordinate projects with agencies, raise needed funds, and plan travel logistics, so start searching for ASB opportunities now. Don’t let this great chance to engage in community service slip away from you! Full application guidelines can be found at http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/whatwedo/volunteering/programs/fsilgd/break.html
Submit your project proposal to servicechallenge@mit.edu by March 1. Email servicehallenge@mit.edu with questions.
Subject: ESD.S20, 11.S941 "Evaluation of Technologies for International Development"
Professors: Bish Sanyal (sanyal@mit.edu), Oli de Weck (deweck@mit.edu)
Schedule: Mondays, 3:30-5:00
Location: 4-253
Description:
Animated by a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to establish the Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) at MIT, this seminar will serve as a forum on developing new methodologies for assessment of products intended to improve the quality of life of low-income households in developing countries. Sessions will explore methods of evaluation from various fields to ensure that these products are technically suitable, scalable and sustainable. In addition, the course will focus heavily on addressing real-world constraints and problems faced by development agencies, governments, NGOs, and development practitioners in general. Led by faculty and research scientists from Engineering Systems Division and Urban Studies and Planning; and drawing on presentations by practitioners from USAID, Partners in Health, Mercy Corps, Oxfam America, Consumer Reports and others this seminar will facilitate and discuss the very process of cross-disciplinary learning, incorporating knowledge and techniques from many fields including Systems Engineering, Institutional Analysis, Experimental Design, Supply Chain Analysis and Community Development. As a final project, students will be expected to develop an individual research proposal and evaluation plan focusing on a specific product. Students who write the most promising proposals may be asked to formally join the CITE research team by the end of the seminar and continue to work closely with CITE team leaders to conduct fieldwork over summer 2013.
INFORMATION LETTER
DEAR COLLEAGUES,
We have pleasure in inviting you to participate in the International Forum – Contest of students and young researchers ‘The Topical Issues of Mineral Resources Management’ which is held at the National Mineral Resources University (Mining University) on April 24-26, 2013.
The following forum workshops will be organized according to research areas:
1. Geology
2. Exploration and development of oil and gas fields
3. Mining of ore and nonmetallic minerals
4. Geodesy, geomechanics and underground construction
5. Mining electromechanics and mining equipment
6. Metallurgy. Physical and chemical regularities of technological processes 7. Economics and management
8. Environmental engineering
9. Nanotechnologies and information technologies.
The working languages of the Forum are Russian and English.
To participate in the Forum you are to send a registration form to the Organizing Committee until the deadline of March 01st, 2013. In case of delay the Organizing Committee does not guarantee preparation of an official invitation letter which is necessary for receiving a visa.
The papers submitted on time will be published. The deadline for paper submission is March 01st, 2013.
Layout of the paper: volume – up to 4 pages; font type - Times New Roman, font size 12 normal, line spacing – 1.5; A4 composition size.
The paper has to be preceded with the surname, first name, second name (patronymics) of the author(s) and a full title of the educational institution.
For the purpose of providing translation at forum workshops your Power Point presentations have to be submitted to the Organizing Committee by e-mail until April 01st, 2013.
Address of the National Mineral Resources University (Mining University): 2, 21st Line, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199106
Fax/Phone: +7 (812) 328-82-48
E-mail: forumspmi@yandex.ru
RECTOR, Professor, Vladimir S. Litvinenko
We are pleased to announce the 2013 IAP Seminar
"Analytics in Healthcare"
Date: Monday, January 28th
Time: 9:30am-3:00pm
Place: 32-123
Schedule:
9:30am - 10:00am - Intro and Continental Breakfast
10:00am - 11:00am - Retsef Levi from MIT
11:00am - 12:00pm - John D'Amore Founder and Partner of Clinfometrics Inc.
12:00pm - 1:00pm - Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm - Turgay Ayer from Georgia Tech
2:00pm - 3:00pm - Doctor Michael Howell and Doctor Daniel Talmor from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
For more information please see the seminar website: http://web.mit.edu/orc/www/seminars/iap.html
If you plan to attend please RSVP no later than 1/24/13 by sending an email to John Kessler (jkessler@mit.edu) so that we can ensure that there is enough food for all in attendance.
Student Coordinators: John Kessler, Maokai Lin, and Stephen Relyea
Faculty Coordinator: David Simchi-Levi
We look forward to seeing you!