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
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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
Sophos Update Issue – False Positive – SHH\Updater-B
On 9-19-12 around 5:40PM Sophos pushed an updated signature file which triggered a false positive virus detections identified as SHH\Updater-B. This signature may have fired on a number of different update files including Flash, Google, and most notably Sophos itself. … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Sophos Update Issue – False Positive – SHH\Updater-B
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