J-term Scenes: The Science of Stress
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Stress is a feeling that most people experience in one form or another on a daily basis and is increasingly understood to be a determinant of well-being. This winter term, students...
View ArticleConference Will Explore Media Representations of Minorities
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Scholars, journalists, and students will gather for the fourth annual student-run global conference at Middlebury titled “Media and Minorities in the West: Revealing Trends and...
View ArticleSpeakers at MLK Breakfast See "Challenging Times" Ahead
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – With the inauguration of a new U.S. president just four days away, the speakers at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast predicted that 2017 will be a challenging time for...
View ArticleAssociate Chaplain Ira Schiffer Announces Retirement from Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury’s first Jewish chaplain, Rabbi Ira J. Schiffer, will retire on June 30, 2017, after serving the college community for 16 years as the associate chaplain.Schiffer has...
View ArticleFaculty Research on Weybridge Cave Offers Insight to Glacier Movement
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Professor of Geology Jeff Munroe, Assistant Professor of Geology Will Amidon, and research assistant Zachary Perzan ’14.5 recently published an article in the Journal ofQuaternary...
View ArticleJ-term Scenes: Landscape Photography and Geography
MIDDLEBURY, Vt.– It was a raw, wintry day when we tagged along with students in the winter-term course “Landscape: Photography and Geography.” The students had ridden by van to photograph a nearby...
View ArticleJ-term Scenes: Measuring the Earth as the Ancients Did
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – On one of the few sunny days in January, students in the Ancient Astronomy winter-term class experimented with the earliest-known astronomical instrument – a simple stick – to perform...
View ArticlePresident Patton's Statement to Campus Community Regarding Refugee Travel Ban
President Laurie L. Patton sent the following message by email to faculty, staff, and students on Saturday, January 28, 2017. ISSS refers to the College's International Student & Scholar Services...
View ArticleCelebration for Midyear Graduates Slated for February 3-4
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury will honor its midyear graduates with the annual Feb Celebration on Friday and Saturday, February 3-4. Having just completed the final winter term of their Middlebury...
View ArticleStudent-Designed Rover Could Improve Safety for Facilities Staff
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – With its Xbox controller and dune buggy wheels, the new RIVIR vehicle could easily be mistaken for a toy rather than the result of weeks of mental and physical laboring by a team of...
View ArticleMiddlebury Professor, on Academic Leave in Iran, Faces Uncertainty
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Ata Anzali, assistant professor of religion at Middlebury College, and his family are facing great uncertainties as they come to terms with the ramifications of the Trump...
View ArticleMidlebury Economist Studies the Effects of Abortion Policy in Texas
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – A Middlebury College associate professor who studies the social and economic effects of policies governing women’s access to abortion presented recent findings at a “Behind the...
View ArticleBoard of Trustees Awards Tenure to Four Middlebury Faculty Members
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Four members of the Middlebury College faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor without limit of tenure.On January 27, 2017, the Middlebury Board of Trustees...
View ArticleJ-term Scenes: An Introduction to Podcasting [video]
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Podcasts have experienced an explosion of popularity in recent years, offering an audio storytelling platform that has captured people’s imaginations. By some estimates, there were...
View ArticlePresident Laurie Patton's Statement Regarding Middlebury's Commitment to...
President Laurie L. Patton issued the following statement by email to the campus community today.To the Middlebury community:This has been a distressing week for the greater Middlebury community, as it...
View ArticleCampus and Community Turn Out to Support Muslim Students
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – In a show of solidarity with Middlebury’s Muslim students, hundreds of people, many carrying protest signs, braved frigid February temperatures to attend a rally at the steps of...
View ArticleAlert! Scientists Say the Arctic's Summer Sea Ice Is Melting
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Ross Lieb-Lappen ’07, a postdoctoral fellow with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, discussed the decline of sea ice in the Arctic...
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