| by Gaen Murphree
Professor Erin Eggleston and her undergraduate research assistants spent the summer conducting research on how cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) form toxic blooms, and the role viruses might play.
The School of English conferred 74 Master of Arts and five Master of Letters degrees.
Professor David Allen describes his sometimes-squeamish research in a Q & A for The Conversation.
Assistant professor of Luso-Hispanic studies will lead the course in January 2020.
Middlebury hosted about 130 undergraduate research assistants this summer across 19 academic disciplines.
The 94th session begins August 14 at Middlebury’s Bread Loaf campus in Ripton, Vermont.
Brett Millier, Bert Johnson, Marta Manrique-Gómez, and Will Amidon will pursue travel projects in the coming year to enhance their teaching at Middlebury.
Alexander Handwerger and colleagues from Northwestern and NC State will work on a project related to early landslide prediction.
The longtime men’s basketball coach and administrator was known for his integrity and sense of humor.
Biology and neuroscience professor Glen Ernstrom uses a green glowing protein and tiny worms to study how animal nerve cells transmit chemical signals at synapses. This summer, his student researchers, Jessica Guo ’21 and Edith Lopez ’22, learned new techniques and acquired greater depth as they assisted him in unlocking the secrets of the human brain.
