Dispatches

    dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of May 13
    Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.

      dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of May 6
      Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.

        dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of April 29
        Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.

          Unknown The Enigma of Alan Turing
          Mathematics professor Michael Olinick presented the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture about Alan Turing—the scientist who broke Germany's codes during World War II and ushered in the era of computer science, before his early death from cyanide poisoning.

            dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things To Do—Week of April 22
            Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.

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            SpSymp13_2427 Brainpower in Action: 2013 Spring Student Symposium
            More than 350 students shared the culmination of their research at the seventh annual Spring Student Symposium.

              Historian Stephen Whitfield (l.) greets Adam Jones '13 (r.) and faculty member Larry Yarbrough. The Conundrum of Jewish Identity
              At the Quint Lectureship in Jewish Studies, an historian from Brandeis University traced the American-Jewish experience over the past 70 years.

                dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things to Do — Week of April 15
                Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon. As always, we hope to call your attention to items that captured ours and alert you to events that you won’t want to miss. If you have a news item that you think we’d be interested in, ... [more]

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                BRAIN_splash Academe: Science on the Brain
                Find out what Obama's recently announced Brain Initiative means to some students and faculty.

                  dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things To Do – Week of April 8
                  Construction of the Solar Decathlon house, national news coverage, Real Food Week, and two symposia top our summary of Middlebury College activities this week.

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                  DSC_6681 Solar Decathlon ’13 Team Kicks Off Spring Construction
                  Students, faculty, staff, and the community got a first look at SD13's solar-powered home this week.

                    dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of April 1
                    Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon. As always, we hope to call your attention to items that captured ours and alert you to events that you won’t want to miss. If you have a news item that you think we’d be interested in, drop ... [more]

                      Klyza, an environmental policy expert, gave a nuanced view of Obama's first term and what might come next. Hope and (Climate) Change
                      What are the Obama Administration's grades for environmental policy? Middlebury's Stafford Professor in Public Policy has the floor.

                        Hang_Du_0505a Adapting to Life in China
                        When Associate Professor Hang Du discovered a lack of data about study-abroad programs in China, she went to Hangzhou to observe Middlebury students for a semester.

                          Students mapped Vergennes for safer walking and biking routes Street Smarts
                          What keeps residents driving around town instead of biking or walking to school, work, and errands? What could change those habits? Four seniors have answers.

                            dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of March 18
                            Middlebury Magazine's team recaps recent goings-on at the College and looks ahead to events on the horizon.

                              logo Eight Minutes. $3,000.
                              That’s pretty much what it boiled down to last week when MiddChallenge gave 17 student groups a very brief opportunity to explain why their business, outreach, or arts venture deserved one of its six cash awards.

                                dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of 3/11
                                Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.

                                  saints_crop Small Paintings Tell a Big Story
                                  For a European historian like Paul Monod, one of the College Museum's most-recent acquisitions is a treasure trove into the past.

                                    NCAA_feature Sights and Sounds of a Championship Day
                                    Wednesday morning marked the start of the 2013 NCAA Championships for both alpine and Nordic skiing, hosted this year by Middlebury.

                                      dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of 3/4
                                      Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.

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                                      lewitt splash Drawing On the Wall
                                      Students in an art history course brought a Sol LeWitt wall drawing to life at the Middlebury College Museum of Art.

                                        dispatch_distressed-300x160 Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of February 25
                                        Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon

                                          Journalist Dimiter Kenarov ’04.5 speaks on shale gas fracking in Poland and Pennsylvania Fracking: A Tale of Two Countries
                                          Journalist Dimiter Kenarov '03.5 has covered plenty of difficult stories, but none more complex than the political and environmental dynamics of hydraulic fracturing.

                                            DSC_5865 How Students Learn
                                            Faculty members offered insight into how students learn during an open conversation on the future of the liberal arts.