Scholarship Opportunities at King’s College London

For students thinking about studying in the UK: King’s is pleased to announce three new scholarships for international students pursuing graduate study in 2015. King’s President’s International Scholarships Twenty international students will be selected to receive this scholarship. The maximum award is £10,000. Applications must be received by 17:00 GMT, 31st March 2015. See the […]…Continue Reading Scholarship Opportunities at King’s College London

Friday Links – December 5, 2014

Gates Foundation announces “world’s strongest policy on Open Access“. ‘from January 2015, researchers it funds must make open their resulting papers and underlying data-sets immediately upon publication — and must make that research available for commercial re-use. “We believe that published research resulting from our funding should be promptly and broadly disseminated,” the foundation states.’ Librarians […]…Continue Reading Friday Links – December 5, 2014

TIAA-CREF One-on-One Counseling Sessions with Erik Moreau – 2015

January 2015 – June 2015 Wednesday January 7, Davis Library 150D Thursday January 15, Marble Works 201 Wednesday January 28, Davis Library 150D Thursday February 5, Marble Works 201 Wednesday Februrary 18, Davis Library 150D Tuesday March 3, Davis Library 150D Thursday March 12, … Continue reading Continue Reading TIAA-CREF One-on-One Counseling Sessions with Erik Moreau – 2015

Systems Maintenance this Sunday Morning

During our regular maintenance window this Sunday, Dec 7th between 6 and 10 am we have the following activities scheduled:   One of the Middlebury Internet Service Providers has scheduled network changes that will result in the circuit going down for a few minutes. We have sufficient redundancy in providers that impact to the Middlebury […]…Continue Reading Systems Maintenance this Sunday Morning

Vermont flood of 1927, or 1938? You be the judge.

In our ongoing effort to digitize historical, fragile films, we discovered this unlabeled and undated film clip depicting a flood in East Middlebury: Though we were confident that we got the location right because some of the buildings are still standing in East Middlebury, we weren’t sure about the date.  Based in part on the vintage of the cars, […]…Continue Reading Vermont flood of 1927, or 1938? You be the judge.

Frank Winkler awarded NASA funding

Frank Winkler (Emeritus Professor, Physics) has been awarded funding from the NASA-funded Space Telescope Science Institute for his role in a collaborative research project involving researchers at STScI and University of Toronto. This project entails  observations from the Hubble Space Telescope … Continue reading Continue Reading Frank Winkler awarded NASA funding