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Active Shooter/ Violent Intruder Awareness Class
David M. Barber, Senior Emergency Management Specialist
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Jan/12 | Fri | 10:30AM-12:00PM | 56-154 |
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Jan/16 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 56-154 |
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Jan/17 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:30PM | 56-154 |
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Jan/25 | Thu | 10:30AM-12:00PM | 32-124 |
Enrollment: sign up preferred but not required, limited to 60 per session
Sign-up by 01/11
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None
This class will provide attendees with information about what to do in the event of an active shooter or violent intruder situation in or nerar their vicinity. The session will have video segments including the Nationally recognized "Run, Hide, Fight" concept. It will also feature hands-on demonstrations from MIT Police personnel, showing some of the tools they utilize when faced with these situations.
Sponsor(s): Emergency Management , Campus Police
Contact: David Barber, W92-129, 617 253-8022, DBARBER@MIT.EDU
Advocacy 101: How to Influence Your Government
Peter Su, Chair of GSC External Affairs Board
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
Tuition waiver tax… Net-neutrality... Travel Bans…
Does the current political climate leave you feeling powerless? Learn how to make change through the GSC’s External Affairs Board (EAB) advocacy workshop!
The External Affairs Board has extensive experience advocating on behalf of graduate students on both state and federal levels. The Board also organized the GSC’s response to the recent tax reform bill and worked with the administration and local Cambridge government on graduate housing.
This three-workshop course will give you the basic skills to effectively advocate for your opinions at the federal, state, and local levels.
Workshop 1 on Jan 18: Overview of legislative structure and procedure. You will be supplied with resources to contact your representatives and track issues and policies that impact you. We will review approaches the MIT GSC has taken to advocacy.
Workshop 2 on Jan 25: Preparing materials for meetings or calls with political offices, and what to expect during a meeting.
Workshop 3 on Feb 1: Advice from a panel of policy-makers and staff.
Participants of all three course will have the chance to apply what they’ve learned with the EAB at a Massachusetts Statehouse or Washington DC visit later this semester.
If you’re interested, please indicate which workshops you’ll be coming to by filling out this RSVP form: tinyurl.com/advocacy-101-rsvp
Contact: Skylar Deckoff-Jones, 13-4153, (505) 795-4382, SDECKOFF@MIT.EDU
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Jan/18 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 50-220 |
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Jan/25 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 50-220 |
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Feb/01 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 50-220 |
Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Andrea Finnin, CERT Program Manager
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must ultimately attend all sessions, make-up sessions TBA.
Prereq: Must be a member of the MIT community.
Thank you so much for being interesting in joining MIT’s Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT)! Ultimately we hope to build a presence in all main campus buildings, so that in the event of an emergency we have a network of people in place that can help to manage the event on location until disaster responders arrive, or to evacuate the building if necessary. To do this we first need to build a capable team, and that's where you come in!
Started in the 80’s in California, CERT is a program whose main mission is to do the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. Information about the mission and background of CERT can be found on ready.gov's website.
The full training manual is available for review and download online. Binders with all course materials will be provided to participants.
This training material was developed by FEMA and it takes 20 hours to complete. The training covers the following segments:
One – Disaster Preparedness
Two – Fire Safety
Three – Disaster Medical Operations 1
Four – Disaster Medical Operations 2
Five – Search and Rescue
Six – CERT Organization and Disaster Psychology
Seven – Terrorism and CERT
Eight – Course Review and Exercise
Sponsor(s): Emergency Management
Contact: Andrea Finnin, W91-203H, 617 715-2469, ANDREAF@MIT.EDU
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Jan/09 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBD |
Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager, David Barber - Emergency & Business Continuity Planner, Suzanne Blake - Manager, Office of Emergency Management
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Jan/11 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBD |
Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager
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Jan/16 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBD |
David Barber - Emergency & Business Continuity Planner, Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager
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Jan/18 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBD |
Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager, David Barber - Emergency & Business Continuity Planner
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Jan/23 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBD |
Basic Treatment - How to:
Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager, David Barber - Emergency & Business Continuity Planner
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Jan/25 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBD |
Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager
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Jan/30 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBD |
Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager
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Jan/31 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBD |
This session is our culminating exercise.
David Barber - Emergency & Business Continuity Planner, Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager, Suzanne Blake - Manager, Office of Emergency Management
Make Your Mark on MIT.nano
Vladimir Bulovic, Professor of Engineering, MacVicar Fellow
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Jan/31 | Wed | 10:30AM-02:30PM | TBD |
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Feb/01 | Thu | 10:30AM-02:30PM | TBD |
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Feb/02 | Fri | 10:30AM-02:30PM | TBD |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
When the cement trucks roll away and the last construction crews leave, the MIT.nano building will finally open in 2018... but there's still a lot to do inside!
Join us to help develop the community spaces in MIT.nano, from designing interactive visitor exhibits in the first floor galleries to laying out the Patent Wall, a celebration of MIT's history of innovation; from creating a 2018 time capsule to capture the MIT of the present to planning the opening celebrations to launch MIT.nano into the future!
Come with friends and make new ones as we'll spend each morning covering a different set of potential projects inside MIT.nano and break into groups to come up with ideas, concepts, and plans for making MIT.nano an engaging, warm, and welcoming community space. Some of these projects may be selected to continue on as UROP projects into the spring semester.
Bring your awesome ideas and sign up at mitnano.mit.edu/iap2018 !
(Updates and more details, including daily schedule, will be posted at mitnano.mit.edu/iap2018 as they become available.)
Sponsor(s): MIT.nano
Contact: Tina Gilman, tgilman@mit.edu
Mapathon
Sofia Leung
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Feb/02 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Sign up here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3895591
Sign-up by 02/02
People across the world and at MIT have been using the OpenStreetMap platform to give their time to relief efforts for communities in need. We will select a project to work on as a group. No prior mapping experience necessary. No knowledge of local terrain is necessary. The first half hour, will feature an OpenStreetMap training, which will be livestreamed for remote participants via WebEx. You are free to come and go as you need! Snacks provided!
Join us in person or online via Slack and WebEx.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Sofia Leung, sofial@mit.edu
Philanthropy 101
Marissa Freed, Assistant Director, Hillel, Marla Choslovsky, Development Director, Hillel
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Jan/25 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | W11-180 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/24
Limited to 15 participants
Fee: $5.00
for class gift (Suggested, not required)
One of the perks of becoming an adult is earning a paycheck. Join a conversation about how adults make intentional philanthropic choices past buying cupcakes at a bake sale. All students are welcome to join this conversation about personal philanthropy. There will be an overview of how philanthropy works behind the scenes and a practical component for you to consider your own giving priorities.
RSVP here by Wednesday January 24th
Sponsor(s): Hillel
Contact: Marissa Freed, W11-035, 617-253-2982, MFEINMAN@MIT.EDU
Research and Innovation in EdTech: Assessing the Evidence and Addressing Inequality
Vincent Quan, Policy Manager (J-PAL North America), Sophie Shank, Policy Associate (J-PAL North America)
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Jan/23 | Tue | 04:30PM-05:30PM | E51-395 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Technology has the potential to help overcome challenges long considered intractable in education. The U.S. education technology—or “edtech”—industry is projected to be worth $21 billion by 2020. Yet the growth in edtech has far outpaced rigorous research on which uses of technology truly help students learn. Should schools invest in giving a laptop to every student? What types of educational software have been shown to support learning, especially for students who struggle with traditional instruction? Can low-cost text-message reminders increase college enrollment? Can online courses increase access to education among non-traditional learners? Existing educational inequality raise the stakes behind these questions—without clear evidence, policymakers may struggle to identify or scale up uses of technology that close gaps in educational achievement.
Researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), based at the MIT Department of Economics, reviewed more than 100 studies to assess what we know about the impacts of different uses of education technology. Come hear what rigorous research says about the most promising uses of technology in education and how ed-tech can be leveraged to address persistent inequality.
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Todd Hall, thall@povertyactionlab.org
Science Advocacy Media Training
Seth Michaels, Union of Concerned Scientists Communications Officer
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Jan/31 | Wed | 05:00PM-06:30PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The Union of Concerned Scientists, the Undergraduate Energy Club, the GSC External Affairs Board, the Science Policy Initiative, and Fossil Free MIT invite you to a training on media strategies for science advocacy. The media world can be difficult to navigate; journalists have a small amount of space to cover complex scientific topics in a 24-hour news cycle, and scientific expertise has never been in higher demand in mainstream media. Members of Congress keep a close eye on media coverage, to keep a 'pulse' on issues of importance to their constituents. This training, led by UCS Communications Officer Seth Michaels, will offer strategies and ways to influence public and political opinion on science, environmental, and climate policy through media engagement.
Sign up at: bit.ly/iapsciencemedia2018
Sponsor(s): Fossil Free MIT
Contact: Patrick Brown, 617 324-3801, PRBROWN@MIT.EDU
Unleashing Alternative Futures: Constructing New Worlds through Imagination, Narrative, and Radical Hope
Lawrence Barriner II, Program Director, Community Media, Grant Tank Williams
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
“I learned in school how to deconstruct—but how do we move beyond our beautiful deconstruction? Who teaches us to reconstruct? How do we cultivate the muscle of radical imagination needed to dream together beyond fear?” - Adrienne Maree Brown
It’s 2018 and something isn’t right. Or maybe more accurately, almost everything is wrong. The joint powers of imagination and fear have established a seemingly untouchable demagogue as the elected leader of the world’s most powerful empire. He carries out the wishes of the elite while destroying the dreams, realities, and futures of everyone and everything else, including the planet herself.
Standard tactics are proving ineffective. Fact-checking has been rendered useless. Reason, unreasonable. Imagination, myth-making, and stories reign (see alternative facts). The future of America, and perhaps the world, is in the hands of the best storytellers.
The Resistance is evolving to meet the challenge. How do we build past, even through fear, to something more powerful? To… radical hope? We are one faction of many fighting for the futurewe are writers, thinkers, and artists using our powers to fight imagination with imagination. In this 3-day workshop in January, 2018 we will: learn from the rich ancestry of speculative fiction, exercise collaborative ideation and world-building, and create stories and art that may unleash new futures to topple the hegemonic order. Come, join our schemes.
Click here for more Info/sign-up.
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Lawrence Barriner II, lqb@mit.edu
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Jan/24 | Wed | 06:00PM-09:00PM | 9-217 |
Lawrence Barriner II - Program Director, Community Media
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Jan/26 | Fri | 06:00PM-09:00PM | 9-217 |
Lawrence Barriner II - Program Director, Community Media
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Jan/31 | Wed | 06:00PM-09:00PM | 9-217 |
Lawrence Barriner II - Program Director, Community Media
Waste management 101: Where Does Our Trash Go?
Hugo Uvegi, Karine Ip
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This 3-day session will run through the end-of-life treatment of all types of waste--trash, recycling, and compost--following their path from the trash receptacle to their ultimate end.
By the end, you will walk away with a greater awareness and understanding of materials as they run through the disposal and recycling parts of their lifecycle.
RSVP is required by January 16, 2018.
Please RSVP here:
https://goo.gl/forms/soTBM2WNIWRS9Axg2
Day 1 & 2 will focus on the ins and outs of waste streams in our MIT community and beyond. Speakers will address the situation regarding MIT waste, household waste and current waste research.
Day 3 of this course will be an interactive brainstorming session on what it takes to bring innovative ideas to fruition in the waste space.
When: Tue. Jan 23 - Thu. Jan 25, 2018
1-4pm each day
Where: 4-265
Sponsor(s): MIT Waste Alliance, Graduate Student Council
Contact: Karine Ip, KARINEIP@MIT.EDU
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Jan/23 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 4-265 |
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Jan/24 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 4-265 |
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Jan/25 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 4-265 |
Hugo Uvegi, Karine Ip
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