Join us on Thursday, April 6 at 1:30PM Eastern for a special workshop in the Wilson Media Lab focused on using digital annotation in classrooms and online. Digital annotation—a technology that allows us to annotate documents and web pages from inside a browser window or inside Canvas—is an alternative to online discussion forums, which can…Continue Reading Digital Annotation Workshop in the Wilson Media Lab
Please join us on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 12:15 pm in the CTLR located in the Davis Family Library, Suite 225. Yes, it’s a college-wide learning goal, an FYS learning goal, and we know it’s a critically important skill, but honestly who can afford the precious class-time it takes to teach oral expression? Colleagues Shawna…Continue Reading Academic Roundtable – When The Oratory Light Is On: How Attention to Speaking Can Help Us Teach
During the summer, the library employs, trains, and mentors students who assist faculty with various digital projects. Digital projects that students have helped with in the past include the creation of: a website for a course or a lab a video or other multimedia materials animated maps image databases online tutorials online quizzing and assessments…Continue Reading Summer Assistance for your Digital Media Projects
Frank Winkler (Emeritus Professor, Physics) has been awarded funding from the NASA-funded Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for his role in a collaborative research project involving researchers at NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute and Australian National University (ANU). This project, titled N103B: A Type Ia Remnant with Circumstellar Interaction…Kepler’s Older Cousin?, entails observations from NASA’s orbiting Chandra…Continue Reading Frank Winkler receives award from NASA-funded Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Your friendly Middlebury librarians Ryan Clement & Wendy Shook will be holding a series of Zotero workshops for both faculty and students in mid April – two in Davis Family Library and two in Armstrong Library. Sign up here: http://go.middlebury.edu/zoteroworkshop. Dates and times: 11am-12pm, Tuesday, 04/11 in LIB 145 (first floor Davis Family Library conference…Continue Reading Spring 2017 Zotero Workshops
Individuals who end employment after having worked for Middlebury in a benefits-eligible status for a minimum of ten years past the age of forty-five qualify as “Middlebury Retirees”. Name Type Retirement Date Department Wayne Darling Staff 3/10/2017 Public Safety Charles Conway Staff 3/2/2017 Information Technology Services Marilyn Dragon Staff 2/24/2017…Continue Reading Retirement Transitions
Tom Manley (Geology) has received additional funding from the Lintilhac Foundation to support two more years for the previously funded project titled High-Resolution Bottom Mapping of Lake Champlain. This long term effort will update the 2005 bottom bathymetric map of Lake Champlain and provide a significant increase in the resolution of the lake bottom that…Continue Reading Tom Manley receives additional funding for lake research from the Lintilhac Foundation
Eilat Glikman (Physics) has been awarded a grant from NASA for observations using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), which is a telescope carried by a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft developed by NASA and the German Space Agency. Her two-year research project titled Spectral Energy Distributions of Red Quasars involves collaborators from NASA’s Goddard…Continue Reading Eilat Glikman receives NASA funding for use of the SOFIA observatory
Kareem Khalifa (Philosophy) has been selected by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) as a 2017 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow. This prestigious program provides a full year of support for recently tenured faculty members as they pursue ambitious scholarship at a consequential stage of their careers. The fellowship will enable Kareem to spend the…Continue Reading Kareem Khalifa awarded ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship