Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

This Event Has Been Cancelled. Please join us for this lunchtime conversation with JuliAnna Ávila on the topic of her latest book project, finding a home in academia. Bring a laptop or smartphone for an interactive activity.  Julianna Ávila is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and author and editor of Critical Digital Literacies as Social Praxis: Intersections & Challenges (Peter Lang Press, winner of the Edward B.

CTLR Pedagogy Series—From Theory to Practice

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Tom Scheinfeldt, Associate Professor of Digital Media and Design, Associate Professor of History, and Director of Digital Humanities in the Digital Media Center at University of Connecticut, will be visiting Monday, December 12th, 12:15-1:30 for a lunch time lecture.

The goal for this workshop is to engage in a discussion about the goals of this contested concept called a liberal arts education and what relevance such an education might have to informing the focus question, “What is the good life and how do we live it together?” We begin with a foundational work in the ‘Western’ tradition that is particularly relevant to liberal arts colleges in the USA and then to modern texts that illuminate unexamined assumptions about teaching and learning at Middlebury.

Forest Jarvis ‘15 will discuss his current experience as a Fulbright Scholar conducting research in the Philippines, and Maddie Gilbert ‘14 will discuss her year as a Fulbright Scholar English Teaching Assistant in Brazil. Lunch provided.

Learn about different summer research opportunities from Middlebury students who have participated in programs. Opportunities available in multiple disciplines. Programs discussed include Amgen, C3, Middlebury, REUs, SURF and application processes. For more info, see go/uro

More than 125 Middlebury students participated in faculty mentored research projects on campus this summer as research assistants. The Middlebury Community is invited to engage with these students to see what they have discovered through poster presentations at the Summer Research Symposium in McCardell Bicentennial Hall.

More than 100 Middlebury students participate in faculty mentored research projects on campus each summer. Our summer research assistants will address the perennial question, “What did you do during your summer vacation?” by giving a poster presentation at the Summer Research Symposium. The Middlebury Community is invited to engage with these students to see what they have discovered and what relevance this new knowledge has on our world.

Welcome Luncheon- Summer research assistants and their mentors are invited to a welcome lunch in the Bicentennial Great Hall and Discovery Court.

Lunch and learn for the Summer Undergraduate Research Program. How to market your research skills and find job or internship opportunities. RSVP by 7/17. Sponsored by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research and the Center for Careers and Internships.