The Week’s Headlines

  • Author By Jason Cable
  • Publication date October 3, 2014

Here are the week’s headlines from the News Room: Faculty to Lead Videographic Criticism Workshop in 2015 Middlebury Voices in the News: Israel’s Bomb, Muslim Immigration, and ‘Yes Means Yes’ From Animal Cognition to Wagner’s Ring Cycle: Seminars Raise the Caliber of the Conversation Middlebury Releases 2014 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report Students Revive…Continue Reading The Week’s Headlines

John Schmitt awarded conference funding from the National Security Agency

John Schmitt (Mathematics) and colleagues from Dartmouth College, Bard College, Smith College, St. Michael’s College, SUNY Albany, Wesleyan University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have received funding from the National Security Agency  for two conferences this year on discrete mathematics. The first was hosted by Middlebury at Bread Loaf during September. The main purposes of these conferences…Continue Reading John Schmitt awarded conference funding from the National Security Agency

VGN Awards for Glen Ernstrom, Clarissa Parker, and AJ Vasiliou

Vermont Genetics Network grants for Research in the Biomedical Sciences 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…Continue Reading VGN Awards for Glen Ernstrom, Clarissa Parker, and AJ Vasiliou

Digital Media Bootcamp 2015

In order to allow for flexibility in our hiring, we will be offering the Digital Media Tutor training during the month of January, and are opening up the sessions to all interested faculty, staff and students. This is the same training that we have been using for the Summer Digital Media Tutor program. The following […]…Continue Reading Digital Media Bootcamp 2015

Security Note – ‘Shellshock’ Vulnerability

As you may have read in mainstream news media outlets, a vulnerability was recently discovered in the Bourne Again Shell (Bash) component of Unix-based operating systems. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute shell commands through shell environment variables. It has also been leveraged for denial of service attacks and other malicious activity. ITS […]…Continue Reading Security Note – ‘Shellshock’ Vulnerability

Students learn the craft of medieval papermaking

Well, to be specific, medieval paper was actually parchment, made from animal hides, rather than trees and literally all of our knowledge of the Middle Ages was preserved on skins made from calves, sheep, or goats. To better understand the chemistry, art, and labor of parchment, Middlebury College’s Special Collections & Archives, together with Professor Eliza Garrison’s Medieval […]…Continue Reading Students learn the craft of medieval papermaking

More streaming video – trials and new access!

You asked for it, we’re getting it! Many students, faculty, and staff members are asking for access to more streaming video, so the Middlebury Libraries are providing more and more of these options. New for the sciences, from the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), we now have subscribed access to: Science Education – 1 : […]…Continue Reading More streaming video – trials and new access!

Figure Skating Lessons for Children

It’s not too late to sign up! The Middlebury College Figure Skating club is open to children of all faculty and staff (Middlebury College ID holders), from ages 5 through high school. If you have a child who is interested in participating, please complete these documents (registration and waiver): 2014-15 Figure Skating Club 2014-2015 Winter Skating Middlebury…Continue Reading Figure Skating Lessons for Children