Dear MIT Postdoc community, We are excited to open nominations for the MIT PDA Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award 2025! The goal of the award is to honor and acknowledge principal investigators (PIs) for excellent postdoctoral scholar mentoring, and to recognize both the value of quality mentoring and its impact on the career path of postdoctoral scholars. It will highlight the unique opportunities and challenges…
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Orientation committee chair nominations
Our current Orientation Committee Chair, Ziling Chen, has recently completed his postdoctoral appointment and can no longer serve in this role. With Ziling’s departure, we are now seeking self-nominations for a new Orientation Committee Chair. The Chair is responsible for organizing resources and events to help new postdocs transition successfully into the MIT community, and…
PDA General Meeting and Coffee Hour Summary 02/24/25
Thank you all for coming to our coffee hour this week! Here you can download the summary and the slides. Want to get involved? Please don’t hesitate to reach out via Slack or contactpda@mit.edu! Best,WinaldPDA Recording Secretary…
Salary Discussions between PDA Executive Board and Vice-President for Research
In this month’s meeting between the PDA Executive Board and the Vice-President for Research, we discussed the results of the postdoc salary negotiations that spanned the past weeks and months. As explained in the e-mail to all MIT postdocs, the minimum salary will be increased to $69k in January and $71k in July for both…
November Meeting and Coffee Hour
Thanks everyone for joining today’s PDA General Meeting and Coffee Hour and sharing your great ideas for the postdoc community! Happy Thanksgiving….
Laura Lewis and Jing Kong receive postdoctoral mentoring award
MIT professors Laura Lewis and Jing Kong have been recognized with the MIT Postdoctoral Association’s Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring. The award is given annually to faculty or other principal investigators (PIs) whose current and former postdoctoral scholars say they stand out in their efforts to create a supportive work environment for postdocs and support…
VPR Meeting September 2024
Last week, the executive board of the postdoctoral association met withthe Vice President for Research, Ian Waitz, to discuss ways of improvingthe living and working conditions of postdocs at MIT. As a first step, theVPR and PDA agreed on a closer collaboration to effectively improvepostdoc life at MIT. To maintain continuity, the PDA and VPR…
First PDA general meeting and coffee hour of this term
Today we kicked off the first PDA General Meeting and Coffee Hour of this term! Thanks everyone for joining and sharing your great ideas for the postdoc community! You can download the meeting slides here. We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting on Oct 29th, 12 pm in E25-140 or via Zoom! Want…
Introducing the MIT PDA elected cohort for the 2024/25 academic year
Dear MIT postdocs Thank you all for voting during the 2024/2025 MIT PDA officer elections! We are happy to announce the new cohort of elected PDA officers for the coming year who will be taking over on September 1st, 2024. Election results: We look forward to the initiatives, connections, and events this new cohort will…
It is time to vote! PDA-Elections are open
PDA-officer elections are open! Exercise your rights as an MIT postdoc and vote to elect your fellow postdocs into the MIT Postdoctoral Association (PDA) leadership positions. All nominees have shown interest in the PDA and have elected to run for one or two official positions. Go to the election portal, read their statements to know more…