Information for Employing Students This Academic Year

Thinking about hiring a student worker? Great! Here are a few things to keep in mind: New this year: All Research Assistants will enter their time in BannerWeb to receive pay. Students will use the new applicant portal, PeopleAdmin, to apply for jobs. Supervisors will also use this system to review applicants, notify students if…Continue Reading Information for Employing Students This Academic Year

Your Farmstand @ Middlebury

Dear Returning Middlebury College Faculty and Staff, For folks who have been away: after just eight weeks, the college’s online local food market is a great success. Farmers like it. Participating faculty and staff give it great word of mouth. Here’s an update of the original announcement. Now that you’re back, jump in! We are…Continue Reading Your Farmstand @ Middlebury

Three VGN Grants for Biomedical Research

Middlebury College is one of the baccalaureate partner institutions participating in a major grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of Vermont. This grant continues the Vermont Genetics Network support that has been an important source of funding for faculty and student research during the past decade. The following faculty members received…Continue Reading Three VGN Grants for Biomedical Research

New Smart Classrooms & Renovations – AXT 305, CHT 110, MBH 305 plus Carr 005 and LIB140

In June and July (and in time for the Language Schools!), LIS installed new audio/video projection systems in four classrooms that were lacking technology: Twilight Hall 305 (AXT 305) Chateau 110 (CHT 110) McCardell Bicentennial Hall 305 (MBH 305) Sunderland … Continue reading Continue Reading New Smart Classrooms & Renovations – AXT 305, CHT 110, MBH 305 plus Carr 005 and LIB140

Heidi Grasswick: NSF Grant to Explore Trust in Science

Heidi Grasswick (Philosophy) has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to fund a project titled Trusting Knowledge: Agency, Dependence, and Responsible Knowing in a Scientific World. Starting from the premise that knowing agents’ social locations shape their possibilities for knowledge, it will develop a model that explores the need for, and limits…Continue Reading Heidi Grasswick: NSF Grant to Explore Trust in Science

Frank Winkler: NASA Funding for Two Projects

Frank Winkler (Physics) has recently been awarded funding from the NASA-supported Space Telescope Science Institute for two research projects related to observations made from the Hubble Space Telescope earlier this year. The project Stellar Life and Death in M83: A Hubble-Chandra Perspective, in collaboration with an international team of scientists from the US and Australia…Continue Reading Frank Winkler: NASA Funding for Two Projects