Colonel Alicia Burrows will give an Independent Activities Period presentation on contracting support for US Army and allied forces in Europe.Speaker info: Colonel Alicia Burrows is a US Army 2024-2025 Fellow at MIT's Security Studies Program and Lincoln Laboratory. She enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in 2001, completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, and accepted an ROTC scholarship through the University Maine – Orono. She was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Signal Corps in 2004 after graduating from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies and played basketball. In 2012, she received a Master’s of Business Administration from the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA. She graduated from resident Command and General Staff College in June 2015 as an Art of War Scholar with a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences.Her previous assignments include: Director, Theater Contracting Center/409th Contracting Support Brigade, Kaiserslautern, Germany; DCMA Philadelphia Chief of Mission Support and Deputy Director of Contracts, Philadelphia, PA; Assistant Executive Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics & Technology), Pentagon; Contracting Officer, DLA Troop Support, Philadelphia, PA; Battalion S3/XO, 925th Contracting Battalion, Team Leader, 619th Contingency Contracting Team, Fort Drum, NY; Staff Officer, LandWarNet, Army Capability Integration Center, TRADOC, Fort Monroe, VA; S6/Electronic Warfare Officer, 28th Transportation Battalion, Mannheim, Germany; Node Center Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer, Charlie Company, 32nd Signal Battalion, Darmstadt, Germany. LTC Burrows’ deployments include combat deployments to Iraq (October 2005 –October 2006) and Kuwait (March 2008 – June 2009).She is a member of the National Contract Management Association and an Honor Graduate of the Contract Management Leadership Development Program. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Federal Contract Manager (CFCM). She also serves on the Board of Trustees for her high school, a private co-educational boarding school in New Hampshire.Open to the MIT communityMIT is committed to providing an environment that is accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you need a disability related accommodation to attend or have other questions, please contact us at ssp-info@mit.edu.

New babies are such a blessing, but they can also bring with them sleepless nights, crying, and sometimes quite a bit of extra stress. Learn an approach to calm your baby in our Happiest Baby Class. New parents will learn step-by-step how to help babies sleep longer and how to soothe fussy infants.Class information includes:The Missing 4th TrimesterThe Calming ReflexThe 5 S'sThe Cuddle CureThis class is open to all soon-to-be parents, new parents of babies birth - 4 months, and other family members and caregivers.This class is for the MIT community only.Registration is required on our wellness class website. If you do not already have an account on this website, you'll need to create one. This class is free and open to the entire MIT community.

What is CERT? CERT training covers basic skills that are important to know in a disaster when emergency services are not available. With training and practice, and by working as a team, you will be able to protect yourself and maximize your capability to help for the greatest number of people after a disaster.CERT Training Covers:Disaster PreparationEmergency Operations Organizational StructureDisaster Medical OperationsDisaster PsychologyFire SafetyLight Search and RescueTerrorism and CERT ResponseAt the conclusion of the 20 hours of training, scheduled in eight class sessions, most of them in-person, a new MIT CERT member will be active to participate in emergency response and large-scale activities hosted on campus as a part of MIT's emergency operations.

Join us for lunch as we experiment with the genre of 'spiritual autobiography.' Life is full of influences on our human spirit - religious and secular, helpful and hurtful. Exploring these legacies in a free and creative way can help us understand ourselves, and our world, more deeply

As an academic researcher, whether you are a student, postdoc, researcher or faculty member, others will search your name on the internet to find out more about your work. What will they find? This workshop will discuss some places where your list of publications will show up, the pros and cons of various academic profile sites and website tools, and ways to make sure your profile in Google Scholar, ORCID, and elsewhere is accurate and up to date. We'll go over some ways to use research databases to potentially find future collaborators. And finally, we'll talk about a few tools you have as an MIT affiliate to make your publications and research output open access and available for greater visibility of your work.This workshop will be in person in the library computer lab, 14N-132, and will include some time at the end to work on your own academic profiles.Register here.

Autonomous RACECAR IAP CourseLearn about basic autonomy and robotics for ground vehicles in this short two-week course on Autonomous RACECAR! In this course, members of the MIT community will have the opportunity to program a 1:14 scale RC car to autonomously navigate through an obstacle course. The course concludes with a hackathon and an all-out race in the famous MIT tunnels, with prizes and more!Instructor Name: Chris LaiRegistration Opens: November 25, 2024Dates: Jan 20th, 22nd, 24th, 27th, 29th, and 31stTime: 1pm - 4pm ESTLocation: 17-130Registration Link: https://mit-bwsi.formstack.com/forms/racecar_neo_iap_2025Website link: https://sites.mit.edu/mit-racecar/