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Axinn Center 229

Axinn Center 229

Old Chapel Road
Middlebury, VT 05753
United States

AXN 229

Bear Island Design Assembly (BIDA) Information Session

Sponsored by:
Center for Careers & Internships
Bear Island Design Assembly (BIDA) is a pro-bono student design-build program led jointly by McLeod Kredell Architects of Middlebury and Marvel Architects of New York. Participants may consider the program an intensive externship with the two firms. For the first week of September, the IDA team lives and works together on a small, rugged island in Maine, designing and building a project to benefit a local community.

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Gender and language ideologies in the Arab world: Moroccan artists 'blacklisted'

Sponsored by:
Arabic and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
Atiqa Hachimi is an Associate Professor at University of Toronto. She is a sociolinguist and Arabic specialist whose teaching contributes to the programs for Women’s and Gender Studies and African Studies. Her research focuses on social and language change in the Arabic-speaking world, particularly in Morocco.

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Free
Open to the Public

The Six Types of Data Journalism Stories

Sponsored by:
Economics, Political Science, and Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Andrew Flowers, former Quantitative Editor and Economics Writer for FiveThirtyEight.com, will profile six types of data journalism stories. Several stories will serve as examples, such as p-hacking in nutrition studies, police officer shootings, Uber’s effect on taxis, and what local characteristics explain Donald Trump’s electoral victory.

Sponsored by: Middlebury Mathematics, Political Science, Economics, and CTLR. 

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Open to the Public

An American Ascent

Sponsored by:
Middlebury Mountain Club
As part of its 100th year anniversary celebrations, the Middlebury Mountain Club will be hosting a screening of An American Ascent, a documentary film about the first African-American expedition to tackle North America’s highest peak, Denali. By taking on the grueling, 20,310 foot peak, the nine African-American climbers set out to shrink the ‘adventure gap’ by building a legacy of inclusion in the outdoor/adventure community.

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Alumni Career Conversation with Jonathan Shepherd, Career Coach & Corporate Relations Dir. at Harvard

Sponsored by:
Center for Careers & Internships
Please join Jonathan Shepherd (Midd class of 1995), Career Coach and Corporate Relations Director at Harvard Business School, to discuss how to begin a job search. The importance of networking will be addressed in detail, including specific tips on alumni outreach communication (e.g. e-mails, phone calls and meetings). The session will begin promptly at 7:30pm

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A Reading by Noy Holland '83

Holland is the author of three widely acclaimed story collections and a novel, Bird. She was described by The New York Times as “a master of the domestic.” Holland teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts. Presented by the Creative Writing Program.

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Open to the Public

Young Alum Panel

Sponsored by:
SGA (Student Government Association)
Come to this fun, light session to learn from these young alumni about things they wish they knew before graduation, what it’s like in the real world and what the transition to work and making friends is like when you’re out of school.

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"Woof! Dog Communication in the Human World" by Deb Helfrich

Sponsored by:
VPAD
This presentation is designed to help people apply a basic awareness of dog behavior to keep themselves and their dogs safe in a variety of situations, including the workplace. Please note that your dogs are not allowed to attend this lecture.

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public