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Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series - Mike Dash: "Patterned Brain Activity is the Basis for Brain Function"

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Academic Affairs

Presenter: Mike Dash

“Patterned Brain Activity is the Basis for Brain Function”

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Fall Faculty Forum

11:00 AM ET

Sponsored by:: Academic Affairs

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

The forum features 60-minute sessions with parallel panels. Panels will consist of 3 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.

Middlebury College

Open to the Public

Scholars of Finance Speaker Series - Michael Wiebolt

6:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Academic Affairs

Axinn Center 219

Closed to the Public

Scholars of Finance Speaker Series - Ross Overline

6:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Academic Affairs

Axinn Center 229

Closed to the Public

Humanities Lunch Exchange - "Academic Priorities: The Role of the Humanities"

12:15 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Academic Affairs

Sponsored by the Humanities Steering Committee.

Blended Learning Brown-Bag Lunch Discussion

12:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Academic Affairs

Pedagogy Brown Bag: Blending online and classroom learning at Middlebury College How has online instruction changed the ways that students can learn at Middlebury? How has it changed the ways that teachers can teach here? How does one produce online instructional materials? How can the effects of blended learning be evaluated? In this brown bag, current practitioners of blended learning at Middlebury will draw from their experiences and begin to discuss these questions.

Munroe 409

Free

Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series - Sunhee Choi: "Tales of Two Basic Research Projects"

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Academic Affairs

Sunhee Choi, Chemistry Department Emerita

“Tales of Two Basic Research Projects Leading to the Development of Drugs against Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease”

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

Open to the Public

Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series - David Stoll: "Accusations too Believable to be False"

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Academic Affairs

David Stoll, Professor of Anthropology

“Accusations too Believable to be False: How We Talk About the Abenakis and Eugenics”

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series - Ellery Foutch: "The Art & Science of History Collections at Middlebury College"

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Academic Affairs

Ellery Foutch, Associate Professor of American Studies, and Alexis Mychajliw, Assistant Professor of Biology/Environmental Studies
“The Art and Science of Natural History Collections at Middlebury College”

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series - Mark Saltveit: "Recovering Ninth-Century Palindromes and Epigrams"

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Academic Affairs

Mark Saltveit, College Libraries
“Recovering Ninth-Century Palindromes and Epigrams”

A 9th century manuscript (BL Harley MS 2735) has a fly-leaf (fol. 1r) covered with mostly illegible epigrams. Mark Saltveit has been using modern technology to recover several of them.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public