Frank Winkler (Emeritus Professor, Physics) has been awarded funding from the NASA-funded Space Telescope Science Institute for his role in a collaborative research project involving researchers at STScI and University of Toronto. This project entails observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and is titled To be or not to be the Progenitor: The Question about Tycho-B. The…Continue Reading Frank Winkler awarded NASA funding
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We were greatly shocked with the news…
During a recent visit to the archives by Professor Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer’s Religion 130 class, The Christian Tradition, students plowed through 214 years of Middlebury College missionary history with College Archivist Danielle Rougeau. Amid the pages of 19th century cursive was this diary entry by Mary Martin, wife of a missionary to China and grandmother of Mabel Martin (later […]…Continue Reading We were greatly shocked with the news…
John Schmitt granted funds to attend combinatorics workshop
John Schmitt (Mathematics) received a grant from the NSF-sponsored Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, located on the campus of the University of Minnesota, to attend a workshop this fall titled Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics. While there, he presented a poster highlighting his work with two collaborators, one from the University of Georgia and the other…Continue Reading John Schmitt granted funds to attend combinatorics workshop
Don’t forget to write your mother, circa 1932
Our own Professor of Psychology at Middlebury College Barbara Hofer writes about the modern day iConnected Parent, constantly in contact with their College-bound kids through cell phones and Skype…well, the archives recently exposed something of a connected parent, but from over 80 years ago. Here’s a letter from October 18, 1932. The mother of Charles Edward Stevenson, Jr., Class of 1936, […]…Continue Reading Don’t forget to write your mother, circa 1932
Summer Language Schools, looking back
Explore our newest online archive: Middlebury Language Schools. This collection includes archives from Middlebury’s Summer Language Schools, which began in 1915. When completed, the collection will include all the annual bulletins from 1915 through 2007, a history of the Language Schools up to 1975, annual reports, photographs, and scrapbooks….Continue Reading Summer Language Schools, looking back
Vintage Robert Frost on film
Luckily, 16 mm film, common from the 1920s through the 1960s, is relatively durable stuff. This particular reel of film, which sat in the Middlebury College archives for over forty years, depicts Robert Frost for two glorious, full color minutes. For the first time in nearly half a century (thanks to a film preservation lab in Philadelphia), […]…Continue Reading Vintage Robert Frost on film
The Week’s Headlines
Here are the week’s headlines from the News Room: Middlebury Sees Increase in Students Choosing to Attend Commencement Preview College Hires Couple for Muslim Chaplaincy Post College Grants Tenure to Four Faculty Members Monterey Institute Grants 278 Degrees to Students from 40 Countries Presidential Search Underway College Makes Progress on Emergency Planning and Preparedness View…Continue Reading The Week’s Headlines
A busy start to 2014 in Special Collections
Special Collections has enjoyed a busy start to 2014 with several J-term classes visiting this week to use our collections for coursework. Here’s a group from Prof. Kacy McKinney’s class Space and Place in the Graphic Novel. Students learned about … Continue reading →…Continue Reading A busy start to 2014 in Special Collections
Civil War letters from the Middlebury College Archives featured on VPR.
Last week Jane Lindholm from Vermont Public Radio visited the Middlebury College Archives to find out more about a recent gift of Civil War letters. To listen to the story and see more images, visit the VPR web site here!
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