Watson Fellow for Healthcare
Samara Gordon Wexler ’23.5 has been named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow for the coming academic year.
Stories
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On Fire for Her Students
In a new Midd Moment podcast episode, Annie Weinberg ’10 shared how she left a successful finance career to pursue her passion for education and eventually founded the Alexander Twilight Academy, which provides rigorous academic and mentoring support for under-resourced students.
Beyond Country Music Stereotypes
In an article published in the Conversation, American studies and English professor Will Nash provides historical context to Beyoncé’s latest foray into country music.
Stealing from Dead Authors?
Esquire asked English professors Jay Parini and Rob Cohen to weigh in on the complicated ethics of posthumous publishing.
Prize Poetry
Kellam Ayres, MA English ’07 has been awarded the 2023 Spacks Prize for her forthcoming full-length poetry collection, In the Cathedral of My Undoing.
Global Fixer
Nicole Sahin MBA ’05 appeared on the Fortune Magazine podcast Leadership Next to discuss why globalization is far from dead, the importance of a solid onboarding system for remote-first companies, and how her company is utilizing AI.
A Leader Providing Opportunities
Jake Moreno Coplon ’08.5 is the new chief operating officer for the Posse Foundation, having been a Posse scholar during his time at Middlebury.
A Chapter Closed
Over 23 years in the English department at Colorado State University, Sarah Sloane ’79 helped hundreds of students tell their stories. In honor of her retirement, CSU profiled Sloane about lessons learned, memories made, and what comes next.
How to Teach Russian
Three members of the School of Russian faculty and staff had their book recognized by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL) for the best contribution to the study of Slavic linguistics or second language acquisition in 2023.