Academic Affairs

Associate Professor Rebecca Kneale Gould of the Program in Environmental Studies will give this week’s Carol Rifelj lecture.

“Rethinking Thoreau: Race, Religion and Renewal.”

Associate Professor Sarah Stroup of Political Science will give this week’s Carol Rifelj lecture.

“The Authority Trap: Strategic Choices of International NGOs.”

Lecture given by Jonathan Miller-Lane, Associate Professor of Education Studies.

Shelby Kimmel, Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Paul Hess, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics will give this week’s Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture.

“Infinity Machines: Will Quantum Computers Live up to the Hype?”

Erica Morrell, Mellon C3 Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology will give this week’s Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture.

“First Food Justice: Why Infant Feeding is a Central Social and Environmental Equity Issue in the United States”

In this talk, Erica will address the emergence of disparities in young children’s access to food and how they shape America today. She will also describe grassroots ‘first food justice’ efforts that seek to dismantle these dynamics towards bringing about more just conditions for all.

David Miranda Hardy, Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media Culture.

“Representing trauma: from Testimony to (Post)memory in my own artistic practice”

Professor of Mathematics, David R. Dorman will give a lecture as part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series.

RIGHT TRIANGLES, ELLIPTIC CURVES, AND THE CONJECTURE OF BIRCH AND SWINNERTON-DYER

Mathematics is often driven by problems with deceptively simple statements that are notoriously difficult to solve or even remain unsolved. The Congruent Number Problem,

This reception scheduled for today has been postponed until Feb. 22, 2017.

Fall Faculty Forum showcases the amazing scholarship and creative work produced by Middlebury faculty.

The forum features 90-minute sessions with parallel panels. Panels will consist of 3–5 faculty presentations, followed by conversation with the audience. Panels are interdisciplinary in scope but linked by theme, and each presentation will be accessible to non-experts, including faculty, staff, and students with a wide range of interests and background.

A detailed schedule can be found here.