Why The Economy Didn’t Help Democrats

I’m up today at U.S. News with a piece that examines why the improving economy did not help Democrats in the 2014 midterms even though economic growth was the primary reason Obama won reelection in 2012. Briefly, I think there are three related explanations: First, as I noted in this Bloomberg interview, voters’ negative perceptions […]…Continue Reading Why The Economy Didn’t Help Democrats

Systems Maintenance this Sunday Morning

During our regular maintenance window this Sunday, Nov 9th between 6 and 10 am we have the following activities scheduled:   Moving servers and storage infrastructure from the Library data center to our new data center. There will be some brief interruptions to services such as email or web sites, on the order of a […]…Continue Reading Systems Maintenance this Sunday Morning

We were greatly shocked with the news…

During a recent visit to the archives by Professor Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer’s Religion 130 class, The Christian Tradition, students plowed through 214 years of Middlebury College missionary history with College Archivist Danielle Rougeau. Amid the pages of 19th century cursive was this diary entry by Mary Martin, wife of a missionary to China and grandmother of Mabel Martin (later […] Continue reading Continue Reading We were greatly shocked with the news…

John Emerson awarded funding to develop statistics materials

John Emerson (Mathematics) received a modest grant through the Yale University Provost’s Fund for support of a project  titled Advances in Statistical Software Environments, on which he is working while on academic leave this year. The project grows out of … Continue reading Continue Reading John Emerson awarded funding to develop statistics materials

John Schmitt granted funds to attend combinatorics workshop

John Schmitt (Mathematics) received a grant from the NSF-sponsored Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, located on the campus of the University of Minnesota, to attend a workshop this fall titled Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics. While there, he presented a poster … Continue reading Continue Reading John Schmitt granted funds to attend combinatorics workshop