Faculty and Staff: Please encourage your students to apply. Encouragement from a faculty or staff member is the largest reason students chose to participate in the Spring Student Symposium! Students from all four years and all departments and programs are invited to apply. The application deadline is Thursday, March 2, 2017. For more information and…Continue Reading Spring Student Symposium Update: Application Deadline 3/2
Eilat Glikman (Physics), a 2014 recipient of the Cottrell College Science Award, has been named a 2017 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation, a private foundation that aids basic research in the physical sciences. This program is highly selective—only two-dozen top early career academic scientists were selected this year—and it champions the very best early…Continue Reading Eilat Glikman named 2017 Cottrell Scholar
Jeff Munroe (Geology) has been awarded a 2017-18 Fulbright Scholar grant for teaching/research in Austria where he will be a Visiting Professor of Natural Science at the University of Innsbruck. Jeff will contribute lectures or a course for the graduate program in Quaternary Geology during the spring semester of 2018. His research for this grant,…Continue Reading Jeff Munroe receives Fulbright teaching/research fellowship to Austria
Please join us on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 12:15 pm in the CTLR located in the Davis Family Library, Suite 225. We live now in a world where the traditional media has been supplanted by a much more complicated set of media outlets and platforms. How do we understand this new reality? What sorts…Continue Reading Academic Roundtable – Fake News, Alternative Facts, and the Toxic Web: Strategies for Understanding and Coping with a Changing Media Universe
You may be thinking about employing a Middlebury College student to work in your department this summer. What a great opportunity for both you and the student! The student can learn important skills (or enhance those they already have) that they will use throughout their life – customer service, time management, conflict resolution, verbal and…Continue Reading Employing Middlebury Students this Summer
We welcome all who love to sing to join in rehearsals at the start of a new season, as we prepare music for our spring concerts in early May. You’ll have an opportunity to explore uplifting music that celebrates the wonder of star-filled nights and an awakening to new possibilities, from a rarely heard song by…Continue Reading College Community Chorus Launches New Season
Pat Manley and Tom Manley (both Geology) have received funding as part of a statewide grant awarded to the VT-EPSCoR program at the University of Vermont (UVM) by the National Science Foundation. The goal of this five-year grant, titled Basin Resiliency to Extreme Events (BREE), is to study and promote resiliency in the Lake Champlain…Continue Reading Pat Manley and Tom Manley receive funding for research on Lake Champlain
2017 Flexible Spending Accounts Update If you are a benefits-eligible employee who is enrolled in a 2017 flexible spending account, you may have recently received a Welcome email from MyCafeteriaPlan. The email outreach effort sent by Middlebury’s new FSA service, MyCafeteriaPlan, provided by Business Plans Inc. You may access your online portal to your flex account(s) via the instructions in that email. Once logged on…Continue Reading 2017 Flexible Spending Accounts Update
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 Thomas Corbin Staff 1/3/2017 Assistant Treasurer’s Office Susan Grant Staff 1/4/2017 Facilities Services Mary Brady Staff 1/4/2017 Student Financial Services Jane Schoenfeld…Continue Reading Retirement Transitions