Day: April 8, 2016

Jon Isham receives Fulbright Scholar Award for teaching/research in Ghana during his academic leave in 2016-2017

Jon Isham (Economics and Environmental Studies) has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for teaching/research in Ghana during his academic leave in 2016-2017. Jon and his family will spend 10 months in Ghana at Ashesi University College, the first residential liberal arts college in Sub-Saharan Africa, whose curriculum features service learning, social innovation, and design thinking. […]…Continue Reading Jon Isham receives Fulbright Scholar Award for teaching/research in Ghana during his academic leave in 2016-2017

Google Ventures Founder Bill Maris ’97 – Monday at 7 – Wilson Hall

Google Ventures founder and CEO, and Middlebury alum Bill Maris (’97) has had quite an unpredictable career.  Currently he invests in startups at the epicenter of science, technology, and medicine.  He oversees $2.4B in capital, and has funded more than 300 companies in the GV portfolio, including Uber, Slack and Nest. In this talk, he’ll […]…Continue Reading Google Ventures Founder Bill Maris ’97 – Monday at 7 – Wilson Hall

Collaboration in the classroom: improving the “group project” experience

Please join us on  Wednesday, April 20, in the CTLR Suite at 12:15 p.m. for a workshop on “Collaboration in the classroom: improving the ‘group project’ experience.” Facilitators: Jessica Holmes and Mary Hurlie Group projects, when designed well, can build problem-solving, teamwork and communication skills, yet many students (and some faculty) groan at their mere mention. During this […]…Continue Reading Collaboration in the classroom: improving the “group project” experience

The Week’s Headlines

Here are the Week’s headlines from the News Room: Professor Cynthia Packert Receives Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships for 2016-2017 Jing He ’17 Named a Goldwater Scholar Middlebury Provides Report on Endowment to Congress Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer John White to Give Talk Google Ventures Founder Bill Maris ’97 to Kick Off ‘Envisioning Middlebury’ Series View past […]…Continue Reading The Week’s Headlines

HR Update: This Week’s Employment Snapshot

There are currently 6 faculty positions, 47 external job postings (regular, on-call and temporary), and 3 internal job postings on the Middlebury employment opportunities web sites. Employment Quick Links: Faculty Employment Opportunities: http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/administration/prospective_faculty/employment 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

Declassified Memory Fragment

Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project September 29–30, Friday–Saturday 8:00 PM, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre The transnational performance group Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project (BTDP), based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Philadelphia, draws from Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics. BTDP presents Declassified Memory Fragment, a dance theatre work with live music, inspired by memory, history, and images of the political and cultural realities currently affecting the […]…Continue Reading Declassified Memory Fragment