A time-honored tradition, the Feminist of the Year Awards took place on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at the annual GSFS/Chellis end-of-the-year fest in the backyard of Chellis House. These awards honor people who have made outstanding contributions to and shown great leadership in improving the status of women and/or fostering gender equity in the Middlebury…Continue Reading The 2014 Feminist of the Year Awards
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LIS Workshops: find summer reading, movies, & more + website development
LIS Workshop: Library Services & Resources at Middlebury Wed, 5/28, 2:00 – 3:00 pm Davis Family Library 105 Computing Lab (lower level) We’ll introduce you to library services and resources available to Midd users and show you how to search MIDCAT, the library catalog, and Summon (our “search everything” tool) to discover resources like books, […]…Continue Reading LIS Workshops: find summer reading, movies, & more + website development
New Employee
In this post we’ll introduce you to a new member of the Middlebury College staff. Please join us as we welcome Tori to campus! Victoria (Tori) Jones has joined College Advancement in May 2014 to be an Assistant Director of Annual Giving. Tori will manage the post-30th Reunion years, and will be responsible for spearheading…Continue Reading New Employee
Mark Spritzer awarded NIH AREA grant
Mark Spritzer (Biology) has been awarded an R15 research grant through the National Institutes of Health’s AREA (Academic Research Enhancement Award) program. This grant will support work to investigate the effect of testosterone replacement on the spatial working memory of hypogonadal aged male rats. It will fund research equipment, supplies, and travel to conferences and…Continue Reading Mark Spritzer awarded NIH AREA grant
Sujata Moorti awarded residencies at Mt. Holyoke and McGill
Sujata Moorti (Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies) has been awarded residencies at two institutions in support of her 2014-15 leave and her research titled Science and Gender in New Media. During the fall she will be a Research Associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke College, where she will contribute…Continue Reading Sujata Moorti awarded residencies at Mt. Holyoke and McGill
“Finishing the Term in the Library” – a poem
Thanks to poet Gary Margolis for sharing this timely work! Finishing the Term in the Library It was most likely me I’m remembering, one of the last to leave, to finish not sleeping in the red leather chair. Three floors down from street level. Trying to write the last sentence of a semester’s paper. Trying […]…Continue Reading “Finishing the Term in the Library” – a poem
HR Update: This Week’s Employment Snapshot
There are currently 9 faculty positions, 50 external job postings (regular, on-call and temporary), and no 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 the internal…Continue Reading HR Update: This Week’s Employment Snapshot
Drupal, Moodle, WordPress, Mediawiki & More: Upcoming workshops
The LIS summer workshop schedule is now available. Visit go/lisworkshops to view offerings for May through August and sign up for topics of interest. We’re happy to be able to offer new, expanded website work sessions where you can get help with any of your websites — whether in Drupal, Moodle, Mediawiki or WordPress — […]…Continue Reading Drupal, Moodle, WordPress, Mediawiki & More: Upcoming workshops
The Week’s Headlines
Here are the week’s headlines from the newsroom: Trustees Approve Budget, Grant Tenure to Four Faculty Middlebury Sets New Record for Fulbright Recipients Professor Wins Preservation Award Dean of the College Shirley Collado To Take Key Position at Rutgers University – Newark Middlebury to Host U.S. Energy Secretary and Congressional Delegation at Energy Summit Students…Continue Reading The Week’s Headlines