Pete Ryan Awarded NSF RUI Grant

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: Workshop Funding

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 Awarded Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad

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: Funding for Conference Series

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

HR Update – This Week’s Employment Snapshot

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

New Employees

In this post we’ll introduce you to two new members of the Middlebury College staff who are working in the Brainerd and Cook Commons.  Please join us as we welcome Nial and Nadia back to campus! Nial Rele  was hired as the new Commons Residential Advisor for Brainerd Commons. He graduated from Middlebury in May…Continue Reading New Employees

Consider Participating in the ‘Home-for-a-Home’ Fundraiser

Once again, Atwater Commons is organizing the “Home-for-a-Home” fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity of Addison County, an event that the College has participated in for several years, and we are currently looking for people to volunteer rooms. Here is how it works. College faculty and staff volunteer one room (or more) in their homes to provide housing for visitors during…Continue Reading Consider Participating in the ‘Home-for-a-Home’ Fundraiser