The 2011 Fall newsletter is out now!

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Biomedical Imaging Fellowship opportunity: Madrid - MIT

Make an impact on YOUR CAREER – and on THE WORLD!

With a focus on accelerating innovation in biomedical imaging, promoting translational research, and encouraging entrepreneurship, the Madrid-MIT M+Visión Consortium is currently recruiting bright young talent from all over the world – engineers, physicians, scientists, and entrepreneurs interested in biomedical imaging who are in search of a career-enhancing experience and want to make their mark on the world.

Over the course of a one- or two-year fellowship in Madrid, Spain, and Boston, Massachusetts – supported by a generous stipend and travel expenses – you will be part of a team that will accelerate cutting-edge research in imaging, translate that research from bench to bedside, and establish new enterprises to enhance and enrich Madrid's biomedical research community. Your knowledge, skills, network, and career track will all be enhanced from this remarkable experience.

Applicants from any country who meet the following requirements:

• MD, PhD, or 5+ years of work past a Bachelor’s degree
• Experience in some aspect of biomedical imaging
• English fluency

The current deadline is January 25th 2011.

For full details and application form, please refer to the website.

FAAB 2010 Scholarship Fund Drive

Dear Fulbright Friend,

Thanksgiving may have come and gone but the Thanksgiving Fund Drive is here to stay!

For 29 consecutive years, thanks to your kind and generous contribution, the Fulbright Alumni Association has been able to financially assist outstanding Belgian graduate students for further studies in the United States.

We take particular pride in that. The Fulbright organization as such has many sources of funding and is able to award multiple scholarships. But none of these grants are quite as heart-warming as the grant made possible by you, ex-Fulbright scholars, through the alumni association.

Let’s make it happen again! If you did not contribute last year to our November Thanksgiving Fund Drive, now is the time to make up for that!

You, as a Fulbright scholar yourself, do not need to be reminded of the tremendous contribution to personal enrichment, for the rest your lives, that a year or more of postgraduate studies or research in the US can procure. It is so much more than a decisive edge in your careers back home. It is so much more than a way to learn close to perfect English. It is the experience of a lifetime!

It has also become more and more expensive. The average cost of one year of postgraduate studies in the US is now around 70,000 USD.

We must therefore urge you once again to give, and give generously, to the Fulbright Alumni 2010 THANKSGIVING FUND DRIVE.

And last year’s tip still stands: the more you give, the more you can deduct from your taxes…

With best Alumnus regards,

Arne Gutermann
Co-Chair, Scholarship Committee

Your payment can be made to the order of the Koning Boudewijnstichting / Fondation Roi Baudouin (bank account n° 000-0000004-04) with the reference "Fulbright Fund – FAAB."

Since the King Baudouin Foundation manages many different funds, it is essential that the reference "Fulbright Fund - FAAB" be mentioned with your bank transfer.

If paying from abroad, the IBAN and BIC codes for the King Baudouin Foundation are the following: IBAN: BE10 0000 0000 0404; BIC: BPOTBEB1.

We remind you that all contributions of € 30 or more are fully tax-deductible in Belgium. A receipt for tax purposes will be sent to you automatically. Contributions received before December 31 of this year qualify for a tax deduction next year, so don't delay!

And when making your contribution, do not forget about Company Matching Gifts: if your employer has such a policy, it will be possible to double your gift!

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News about our alums

• Congratulations to Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort (New England Conservatory, 2006-07) and his wife Charlotte on the birth of their daughter, Eline Louise Marie, on June 12th, 2010
• Congratulations to Peter Vandermeersch (Harvard University, 1997-98) on his new position as chief editor of the Dutch NRC Handelsblad. The Netherlands’ gain is De Standaard’s loss.