Author Archives: Frances Farnsworth

Faculty Grant Announcements have moved to

At the recommendation of colleagues at Communications and Human Resources, we have stopped posting announcements of grants to the undergraduate college faculty in Middpoints.    They are sent to Communications and posted in Middlebury News, which goes to every person on the Vermont campus (faculty, staff, students) as well as trustees and the leadership team in Monterey

If you’re looking for announcements posted in the past, here’s the link: http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/people.

 

http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/people.

Faculty Grant Announcements have moved to

At the recommendation of colleagues at Communications and Human Resources, we have stopped posting announcements of grants to the undergraduate college faculty in Middpoints.    They are sent to Communications and posted in Middlebury News, which goes to every person on the Vermont campus (faculty, staff, students) as well as trustees and the leadership team in Monterey

If you’re looking for announcements posted in the past, here’s the link: http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/people.

 

http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/people.

Faculty Grant Announcements have moved to

At the recommendation of colleagues at Communications and Human Resources, we have stopped posting announcements of grants to the undergraduate college faculty in Middpoints.    They are sent to Communications and posted in Middlebury News, which goes to every person on the Vermont campus (faculty, staff, students) as well as trustees and the leadership team in Monterey

If you’re looking for announcements posted in the past, here’s the link: http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/people.

 

http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/people.

Monday Lunchtime Bridge Group

Would you like to exercise your brain at lunch time on Mondays?  A group of us play every week in the Davis Family Library staff room from 12-1. We’re looking for more regular players or substitutes. We’re very informal - we don’t keep score and table talk is OK. If you want to learn, you can come watch and then eventually move into playing.    If your bridge skills are rusty, you’ll be in good company. If you have any questions, contact Franci Farnsworth (farnswor@middlebury.edu) or Cynthia Watters (cwatters@middlebury.edu).

Peter Nelson – grant for international research project

Peter Nelson (Geography) and a colleague at Point Park University have received a three year grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled International Rural Gentrification; research teams from the United Kingdom and France are also funded via their own respective national funding agencies.  The entire project is part of the Open Research Area funding scheme for international social science research  that now involves agencies in four European countries as well as the NSF. The objective of this multi-national collaborative project is to undertake the first in-depth cross-national integrated comparative study of the theory, forms and dynamics of rural gentrification encompassing France, UK and USA.      The US team will compile a comprehensive database of rural gentrification indicators for each of the three countries, and then identify a set of communities in the US in which to carry out in depth case study analysis focusing on the different forms of rural gentrification and the various actors involved in the process. Scholars from the UK and France will do similar case study analyses in their respective countries. In addition to funding all the costs of the research in the US, the grant will also fund trips to Europe to meet with the entire research team; this research will be the focus of Pete’s academic leave in 2015-16.   Three undergraduate students will be involved in this research.

Susan Burch and Tara Affolter – AALAC workshop funding

Susan Burch (American Studies) and Tara Affolter (Education Studies), with colleagues from Barnard, Haverford, Macalester, Oberlin, Vassar, and Scripps, have been awarded funding from the AALAC consortium (Alliance for the Advancement of Liberal Arts Colleges), the successor to the  Mellon 23 program, for a collaborative workshop that will be held at  Barnard  in the fall of 2015.  The workshop, titled Critical Disability Studies and Universal Design for Learning,  will bring together participants from 10-13 liberal arts colleges and Columbia University who have varied levels of expertise in these related topics that are so critical to better educating disabled and nondisabled students. Participants will collaborate to pursue four related goals:   curricular development, pedagogical development, faculty collaboration with disability support services, and inter-institutional development across and between colleges.

Febe Armanios – Fellowship for Middle East research

Febe Armanios (History) has been awarded a Fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany) in support of her research this summer in Turkey, Cyprus and Lebanon. The research relates to her 2014-15 leave and to her new book project, titled Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East. The project investigates the rise of Christian broadcasting in the region, from its American evangelical roots in the early 1980s to its more indigenous representations today.