Month: September 2014

Welcome (Back) to the Library!

Whether you’re new to campus or returning from summer break, we invite you to take advantage of all the library has to offer. Here are 5 things you won’t want to miss: Many thanks to our talented Digital Media Tutors Maggie, Emily and Denisse, who created this video and others as a summer project! More tips for […] Continue reading →…Continue Reading Welcome (Back) to the Library!

Oxford Arabic Dictionary – new! – and six others, too

As announced in this recent post, the Middlebury College Libraries recently subscribed to the six Oxford Language Dictionaries on the Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) platform – Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. About a week later, Oxford announced the release of their new Oxford Arabic Dictionary on the Oxford Dictionaries platform. We now […]…Continue Reading Oxford Arabic Dictionary – new! – and six others, too

Peggy Nelson awarded NSF funding for collaborative research

Peggy Nelson (Sociology-Anthropology) and a colleague at Wellesley College have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a two-year project titled Social and Biogenetic Factors of New Forms of Families. The goal of this project is to … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Peggy Nelson awarded NSF funding for collaborative research

About Those Senate Forecasts

I’m up today at U.S News (see here) trying to make sense of the variation in the more quantitatively-driven Senate forecasts that are popping up.  At first glance they seem all over the map, running the gamut from the Princeton Election Consortium’s Sam Wang’s optimistic 75% probability that Democrats will retain a majority on November […]…Continue Reading About Those Senate Forecasts