Pinch yourself. If you feel something it means you survived the start of the academic year! Since you’ve done so well it’s time to treat yourself and learn some new skills that will make your life easier. Check out go/lisworkshops … Continue reading →…Continue Reading LIS October Workshop Schedule Includes Drupal & lynda.com
Jeff Howarth (Geography) and Jeanne Albert (Center for Teaching, Learning & Research) have each received a small grant to develop a blended approach to courses they’re scheduled to teach this coming year: GEOG 0120 – Fundamental of GIS and MATH 0100 – A World of Mathematics. These grants are part of the Next Generation Learning…Continue Reading Jeff Howarth & Jeanne Albert: Small Grants for Course Development
Students and the whole Middlebury community are invited to the Davis Family Library to make Tibetan Peace Flags that will decorate the building for the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is a chance to share your … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Tibetan Peace Flag-Making at Middlebury College Library, Oct. 1-14
Staff Council is conducting its third annual survey of Middlebury College staff to assess the working environment and staff morale. To take the survey electronically, click this link: Middlebury College Staff Council Survey Or you can fill out a paper survey which you can get from me or at any of these locations: • Service…Continue Reading Reminder: Take the Staff Council Survey
Pete Ryan (Geology) has been awarded a grant through the National Science Foundation’s RUI mechanism to research rates and mechanisms of mineral reactions and associated chemical changes that occur as tropical soils mature. The project, titled Landscape-scale Implications of Mineral Reaction Rates and Mechanisms in Tropical Soils: Insights from Soil Chronosequences and Synthesis Experiments, involves…Continue Reading Pete Ryan Awarded NSF RUI Grant
Leticia Arroyo Abad (Economics), with co-coordinators at Denison, Scripps, Furman, and Williams, has received funding through the AALAC Mellon 23 Collaborative Workshop program for a workshop titled Change and Continuity: Economic History in the Liberal Arts Context, to be held in April 2013 at Denison University. The workshop builds on past efforts and will focus…Continue Reading Leticia Arroyo Abad: Workshop Funding
Will Pyle (Economics) has been selected to participate in the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program for Summer 2013. The award covers all expenses for the four week seminar titled, Social Sciences in China. During the course of visiting four cities, the seminar will examine China’s economic system and growth, political and legal systems,…Continue Reading Will Pyle Awarded Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad
John Schmitt (Mathematics), with colleagues from Dartmouth College, Bard College, Haverford College, St. Michael’s College, SUNY Albany, Wesleyan University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has received funding for a series of four conferences on discrete mathematics to be held at various locations in the Northeast over the next two years. The first was hosted by Middlebury at…Continue Reading John Schmitt: Funding for Conference Series
There are currently 20 faculty positions, 22 external job postings, and five internal job postings on the Middlebury College employment opportunities web sites. Employment Quick Links: Faculty Employment Opportunities: go/faculty-jobs (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/faculty-jobs (off campus) Staff Employment Opportunities: go/staff-jobs (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/staff-jobs (off campus) Please note – to view only internal staff postings, please use…Continue Reading HR Update – This Week’s Employment Snapshot