Provost's Office

Monroe Swing Space: Open Meeting

Attend this student workshop with author, activist, and Lama (Buddhist Teacher) Rod Owens is an author, activist, and Lama (Buddhist Teacher). Stevie Wonder once sang, “Love’s in need of love today.” His words couldn’t be more true as we face a global community struggling with war, poverty, illness, climate instability, and the rise of political authorities and governments who do not seem to be grounded in compassion or kindness.

The Fund for Innovation will be hosting drop in hours! Have questions about the FFI? Want to learn more about the FFI? Need to workshop your FFI proposal? Drop by Service Building 252 from 12-2 PM on Thursday February 22.

Questions? Email us at FundForInnovation@middlebury.edu

The Fund for Innovation will be hosting drop in hours! Have questions about the FFI? Want to learn more about the FFI? Need to workshop your FFI proposal? Drop by Service Building 252 from 2-4 PM on Thursday February 15.

Questions? Email us at FundForInnovation@middlebury.edu

Sarah Henstra is the author of “We Contain Multitudes,” the 2021 Vermont Reads Book of the Year. Henstra is a professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, and the author of two previous novels, Mad Miss Mimic and The Red Word, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award in Canada.

All animals have visual systems that allow them to process relevant visual stimuli to inform their behaviors. In mammalians, these systems are very complex and often show the presence of retinotopy, a mechanism by which specific regions of the retina (the light-sensitive part of the eye) are mapped onto corresponding locations in the brain, helping preserve spatial information about the visual stimulus. But what about fruit flies? How do they process visual stimuli?

Behind the Scenes at the Tokyo Olympics: The View from the Interpreter’s Booth

Dean Laura Burian, Andrea Hofmann-Miller, and Chiyo Mori from Middlebury Institute’s Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education will share their experience of interpreting for the Tokyo 2020+1 Olympics.

Embracing Tradition, Memories, and Reconciliation for Intercultural and Cross-Generational Empowerment

Ata Anzali
How was the Qur’an complied?

Professor Anzali will first share the most commonly accepted view among Muslims regarding the process by which the Qur’an came to be the book that it is now. He will then compare and contrast this view with the latest academic theories that have been developed to shed light on the intricate process that led to the formation of the most sacred source of Islamic faith, the Qur’an.

Emily Bartels, Beverly Moss, and Tom McKenna
Teaching and Learning across Difference: The Bread Loaf Teacher Network (BLTN)