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Susan Burch awarded NEH Summer Stipend

April 22, 2013 by
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Susan Burch (American Studies and Center for the Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity) has been awarded a Summer Stipend grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her book project titled Dislocated: Removals, Institutions, and Community Lives in American History. Burch’s work centers on “dislocated histories” from South Dakota’s Canton Asylum, the only federal psychiatric hospital for American Indians. Individual histories of inmates and their families are inextricably tied to broader stories of forced removals; the rise of penal, medical, and disability institutions; eugenics; and contests over citizenship and American identity in the last 200 years.

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go/learning workshop: Organizing Basics

April 21, 2013 by
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Wednesday May 15, 1:00-3:00pm, location TBD

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Led by: Porter Knight

Includes bound note-taking guides for all participants to use as a lasting resource.

The hours in a day are finite yet the demands on your time seem limitless.  How can you effectively get your work done when you’re pulled in so many different directions?  This workshop will put you back in charge of your day so you can focus on what’s important.  You’ll learn:

  • The one tool you need to make every day sane
  • Six steps to managing flow of paper and data
  • The real problem with email and how to conquer it
  • Five strategies to counteract the myths of time management
  • Secrets to saying “No”
  • How to respond to interruptions
  • Three components of a “balanced” schedule

Join us for this lively and interactive program.  We’ll include time for discussion so that you can plan how best to apply these ideas.  You’ll leave with tools you can put in place immediately for a more effective and peaceful work day.

*Though there is some new material, this workshop includes most of the core components that Porter Knight has presented in past years and in other formats, including:  RRRIPP through paper, RRRIDD yourself of email, TrueTime Planning.

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Matthew Dickerson Earns NSF Supplement

April 18, 2013 by
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Matthew Dickerson (Computer Science) has received a Supplement to his grant from the National Science Foundation that funds a project titled Teaching Computational Thinking through Multi-Agent Simulation. The additional funding will enable him to continue work on the project this summer, with special focus on disseminating the course that he’s been developing and working on evaluation and assessment components of the original project.

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Register for Forum on Social Entrepreneurship – early bird deadline MAY 1

April 18, 2013 by
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In June 2012, the Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship hosted a forum on social entrepreneurship in the liberal arts at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus. Staff and faculty from 17 colleges and universities gathered for three days to discuss goals for transforming their institutions. From June 10-13, 2013 the center will host its second forum title Social Entrepreneurship in the Liberal Arts: What’s Working and What Isn’t? The focus of this forum will be to discuss lessons learned and will be an opportunity for institutions to learn from one another’s best practices. For more information on the forum, visit our website.

REGISTER NOW for the Forum.
Follow this link to register through the Middlebury College BoxOffice. The event is titled “Social Entrepreneurship Forum.” Early Bird registration is available until May 1. The early bird cost for the forum is $475. After May 1, the cost will rise to $575. The registration cost includes registration fees, food, housing at the Bread Loaf Campus, and materials. For Middlebury Faculty and Staff members, the forum registration cost is $275 but does not include housing at the Bread Loaf campus.

To receive updates once pertinent information becomes available, please fill out this form. On the form, you may also indicate if you would like to lead a workshop and what you hope to explore at the forum. For specific questions about the forum, please email hneuwirth@middlebury.edu.

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Science and Activity Camp for Elementary School Students

April 12, 2013 by
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K-6th elementary students are invited to sample age appropriate science investigations designed and facilitated by the students in EDST 0315, Teaching Elementary Mathematics and Science (Instructor, Emily Hoyler).

The dates are Tuesday, April 30 and Thursday, May 2, from 3:15-4:15 in McCardell Bicentennial Hall Room 311.

Your child is welcome to attend either of these days, but only one. Please call (443-5013) or email (pdougher@middlebury.edu) Trish Dougherty to register. You are welcome to attend with your child.

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go/learning workshop: Stress, Neuroscience & Productivity

April 12, 2013 by
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Sponsored by: Human Resources, Training & Development

Led by: Porter Knight

When you’re overwhelmed and feeling stress, it’s hard to stay focused and productive.  But understanding neuroscience and the physiological responses of your brain will give you new tools to regain calm and be effective at work.  Come find out why your brain does what it does and how that derails your day.  You’ll learn 6 simple strategies to manage your brain, and understand why they work.  We’ll include time for discussion so that you can plan how best to apply these ideas in the course of your day, and you’ll leave armed for increased performance, faster recovery from stress, and higher job satisfaction. Includes bound note-taking guides for all participants to use as a lasting resource.

Thursday April 18, 9:00-11:00am, location TBD

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Elizabeth Morrison receives grant for Beijing trip

April 12, 2013 by
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Elizabeth Morrison (Religion) has received an AAS-CIAC Small Grant from the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies. This grant will help to fund a library trip to Beijing during her 2013-14 leave, thus providing support for her research project titled Finding One’s Place in a Story of Decline: Medieval and Early Modern Chinese Buddhist Narratives of the Deterioration and Death of the Buddhist Tradition.

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