Think Tank: Resource Refresh!

Think Tank: Resource Refresh!

Friday, January 27th

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

10 Brookline Place

5^th Floor Conference Room (563)

Brookline, MA 02445

Free for Members

$25 Non-Members

DESCRIPTION: 

Are you still consulting the AMLAW 100 list that you photocopied at the library years and years ago? Stuck in a rut and wondering what other sources might be available? Time for a Resource Refresh! Bring your go-to URLs, publications, compensation surveys, etc. to share with your fellow researchers. Find the latest and greatest sources and leave with a new reading list for the new year.

FACILITATOR BIO:

Elana Pierkowski is a Senior Research Analyst at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Prior to joining DFCI in 2015, she was a Development Services and Prospect Manager at the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts and a Director of Advancement Operations at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Previously, she worked at MIT Sloan. Before her career in non-profits, Elana was a consultant in Web design and content management. She has B.A. degrees from Wesleyan University in English Literature and in Spanish Literature. Her two Golden Retrievers think she’s the absolute best at throwing tennis balls in the park, but they say that about everybody.

DIRECTIONS: 

From the North

Via I-93, the Tobin Bridge (Route 1), Route 28

Follow signs to Storrow Drive Westbound. Continue for about 1.5 miles, take exit to the left marked "Fenway - Route 1 South," staying in far left lane as you drive up the ramp. Just before the lights, bear right onto Boylston St. At third set of lights, stay straight as the road merges into Brookline Ave. Continue driving past the main DFCI campus almost 1/2 mile and take a right on Pearl Street (the last street before Huntington Avenue) and follow it around to the left until you see 10 Brookline Place on the right. The parking garage is underneath the building.

From the South

Via Southeast Expressway (I-93, Route 3 North)

Take exit 18 "Massachusetts Ave. - Roxbury." After exiting, follow signs to Massachusetts Ave. At Massachusetts Ave. intersection, go straight onto Melnea Cass Blvd. and continue for 0.9 miles to seventh light, turning left onto Tremont St. At first intersection (Boston Police Station on the corner), turn right onto Ruggles St. At third light, turn left onto Huntington Ave. Eventually, Huntington will become Route 9/Boylston Street, go under the underpass, pass Brookline Avenue, and take a right onto Pearl Street. The building is on your left and the parking garage is located underneath the building.

From the West

Via Route 9 (Massachusetts Turnpike to Route 128 to Route 9)

Take Mass. Pike (I-90) East to 128 South. Follow to Exit 20A, 9 East Brookline/Boston. Go 6.5 miles to Brookline Avenue (it will be a large intersection before an overpass, with gas station on left) and turn left. Take another left onto Pearl Street and follow it around to the left until you see 10 Brookline Place on the right. The parking garage is underneath the building.

Via the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) and downtown

Take Mass Pike to Exit 22 "Copley Square/Prudential Center," bearing left toward Prudential. Continue straight onto Huntington Ave. Eventually, Huntington will become Route 9/Boylston Street, go under the underpass, pass Brookline Avenue, and take a right onto Pearl Street. The building is on your left and the parking garage is located underneath the building.

By MBTA

Take the MBTA's Green Line - Riverside Branch/D Train -to the Brookline Village stop. Our building is the large beige building immediately behind the T stop. If you are on the "Inbound Track" side, walk toward the end of the platform and take the stairs to the top and you will be at the main entrance of our building; if you are on the "Outbound Track" side, cross the tracks and walk to your right to the stairway at the end of the platform.