Events

Summer Data Workshops: Introduction to R and RStudio

This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no, or little, programming experience.

Why should you learn R?
* R does not involve lots of pointing and clicking, and that’s a good thing
* R code is great for reproducibility
* R is interdisciplinary and extensible
* R works on data of all shapes and sizes
* R produces high-quality graphics
* R has a large and welcoming community

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Dining Job Fair

Come join us for our 2 day Dining Job Fair and learn how you can be a part of our Dining Services and Retail Food Operations teams!

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Dining Job Fair

Come join us for our 2 day Dining Job Fair and learn how you can be a part of our Dining Services and Retail Food Operations teams!

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Language Careers with the Central Intelligence Agency

Learn how to serve your country by working or interning in the intelligence community. Open to all students but especially those interested in using language or STEM abilities. A few requirements: you must be a US Citizen and drug free 1 year before applying. Other considerations like work locations (in DC or overseas?) and impact of study abroad will be discussed as well as how the security clearance and background check works. Presentation will be by a recruiter with audio only with no slides, but come with questions and try to prepare in advance by reviewing the website.

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Summer Data Workshops: Data wrangling in R with dpylr and tidyr

dplyr is a package for making tabular data manipulation easier by using a limited set of functions that can be combined to extract and summarize insights from your data. It pairs nicely with tidyr which enables you to swiftly convert between different data formats (long vs. wide) for plotting and analysis.

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Summer Data Workshops: Creating high quality graphics in R with ggplot2

ggplot2 is a plotting package for R that makes it simple to create complex plots from data stored in a data frame. It provides a programmatic interface for specifying what variables to plot, how they are displayed, and general visual properties. Therefore, researchers only need minimal changes if the underlying data change or if they decide to change from a bar plot to a scatterplot. This helps in creating publication quality plots with minimal amounts of adjustments and tweaking.

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Careers in National Security Using Foreign Language (Arabic, French and Russian) Skills

Torden is a New England-based professional services firm that provides foreign language solutions to the Federal Government – specifically, the Intelligence Community.
Working as members of an integrated Government-Contractor team in support our nation’s National Security, Torden language professionals help protect against threats emanating from our Nation’s adversaries.

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Helping the World Communicate: Translation, Interpretation and Localization Career Training at the Middlebury Institute

Ever wondered how the United Nations and other international organizations carry out business in six languages or more? Or how tech companies like Apple and Google do business the world over? Are you interested in using your languages in exciting international careers? Come hear about some of the career training offered in the translation, interpretation and localization fields at MIIS. Find out where your languages can take you!

For more information or to access the link please visit go/lscareers or email raconnor@middlebury.edu

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Peace Corps: Culture, Language and Service

Serving in the Peace Corps is a great way to immerse yourself in a new culture, utilize your language skills, and have the experience of a lifetime. This information session is specifically targeted toward language students and will touch on the amazing work Peace Corps Volunteers accomplish abroad. It will also focus on opportunities Volunteers can take advantage of once they return from service.

For more information or to access the link please visit go/lscareers or email raconnor@middlebury.edu

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Putting your Purpose to Work

The world needs people who can reach across cultural and linguistic barriers to solve our greatest challenges, from poverty to climate change. The Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) integrates language into our core curricula to ensure our graduates can pursue global careers in fields as diverse as education management, environmental policy, public administration, business, development, nonproliferation, counterterrorism, trade and more.

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Summer Data Workshops: Linux at Middlebury

Linux is an open-source operating system that is fundamentally relevant and empowering to research computing in many disciplines. Linux is available at Middlebury, from personal workstations to high-performance computing clusters, and this session will explore the landscape of Linux capabilities and tools on campus. This session pairs well with the Unix Shell workshop offering on June 15, 2021, and its instruction about using the terminal, although that workshop is not a prerequisite.

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Navigating the Teaching Job Search Virtually: Carney, Sandoe & Associates Information Session and Q&A

Join Abby Westcott (Director of Recruitment, Carney, Sandoe & Associates) for a virtual information session and Q&A. Learn how to expand and optimize your job search in the realm of independent school education by partnering with CS&A. Connor will outline how CS&A’s partnering schools have shifted to a virtual interviewing and hiring process, and how CS&A’s dedicated placement teams remain at the ready to help you navigate and thrive in these difficult times.

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Using your Language skills at the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Join FBI Recruiter, Arturo Porres and Language Coordinator, Erika N. Cotton to learn about working at the FBI. They will discuss the roles at the FBI, career paths, and potential career opportunities.

For more information or to access the link please visit go/lscareers or email raconnor@middlebury.edu

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Summer Data Workshops: Introduction to text mining in R

Text mining is the process of transforming unstructured texts of all kinds (literary, scholarly, journalistic, scientific, etc.) into a form where the language of the documents can be analyzed. Using tidy data principles can help make these tasks easier, more efficient, and more interoperable with other tools. Luckily, R has packages that make this process work very well inside the R environment.

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Information Session: Middlebury Schools Abroad

Open to undergraduate students at any college or university

Want to continue your language immersion while studying abroad? Middlebury has undergraduate study abroad programs in 16 countries, where you can take courses toward your major, pursue an internship or volunteer work, and engage with the culture of your host community, all under the Language Pledge.

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Bread Loaf Lecture Series: Director's Welcome - Bread Loaf Writers'

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences Director, Jennifer Grotz, welcomes you to the August Lecture Series.

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Bread Loaf Lecture Series: "On the Writing Life" with Carl Phillips

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Bread Loaf Lecture Series: “Friend to Friend in the Endtime: Imagining Solidarity, Writing the Future” with Jess Row

Dystopian or post-apocalyptic novels like Parable of the Sower, Station Eleven, Severance, Fiskadoro, and Dhalgren often imagine relationships of love, companionship, and interdependence across lines of race, gender identification, class, age, and nationality. This lecture raises the question of why these stories seem so attractive in the future, yet impossible in the present, and what we can learn from dystopian narratives about creating better characters in any story.

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Bread Loaf Lecture Series: “The I As Multitudes" with Reginald Dwayne Betts

The ways in which writers engage the I has always been worthy of discussion. But mostly not for what the I says about the writer - and yet, what we imagine the I says about the writer is what frightens so many of becoming multitudes. This class asks questions about the I and what it means to embody multitudes, what it means to be more than ourselves on the page.

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Bread Loaf Lecture Series: “The Art of Describing” with Jane Brox

The most memorable prose descriptions make use not only of word choice but of syntax, context, rhythm, and sound for their effectiveness. In this class, we will discuss examples of exemplary descriptive prose as a means of helping participants enhance their own powers of description.

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