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Faculty meeting scheduled today

A regular meeting of the faculty will be held today, March 16, at 3:30 p.m. in Room 155 of the Stata Center. Agenda items are: a vote on establishing an S.B. in Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, presented by Professor Kim Vandiver; a presentation about graduate student advising by Hector Hernandez, Krishnan Sriram and Barun Singh; and a presentation on a faculty housing program by Provost Robert Brown and Associate Provost Claude Canizares .

Awards Convocation deadline extended

The deadline for nominations for MIT's 2005 Awards Convocation has been extended to Friday, March 25. These awards will be announced at the annual Institute Awards Convocation on May 10.

For information on the more than 30 awards that will be presented and to find out how to submit nominations go to http://web.mit.edu/awards or call Fran Miles at (617) 253-7546.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on March 16, 2005 (download PDF).

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