Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Stop by for a snack at the Fellowships table to learn about what opportunities are available for you! Visit go/fellowships for more information. 

The Spring Student Symposium is an all-campus event that provides students an opportunity to showcase their academic projects to a campus-wide audience in a professional conference setting. Since 2007, the event has showcased the academic and creative works of students. In addition to presenting, students enjoy attending to support their friends, explore a major, or learn more about undergraduate research topics here at Middlebury.

Join Hannah Benz, Mary Lothrop, and Lisa Gates for a conversation about writing letters of recommendation for different purposes: fellowships, medical school, summer research, and graduate programs. What makes recommendations most effective? How can you tailor letters for different purposes? We will discuss the style, content, and purpose of different letters, point out potential pitfalls and possible remedies, and analyze examples.

Open to all faculty. Register here.

What should we do when we strongly suspect a student of having broken the honor code? What are the best practices for approaching students in such cases? How can we build trust and a spirit of academic integrity, especially when generative A.I. now makes cheating so easy and so tempting? Join us for a discussion organized by the Academic Integrity Committee with faculty and students who have been through the judicial process and come out the other side intact.

Open to all faculty. Register here.

Have you considered applying to graduate school in the UK? Join Dean Lisa Gates for an overview of UK fellowships, what makes an ideal candidate, and a review of the nomination and application process. Registration appreciated.

Scholarship competitions discussed include the Churchill, Gates-Cambridge, Marshall, Rhodes, St. Andrews scholarships. The deadline for the UK-Irish nomination application is April 4, 2025 (midnight). See go.middlebury.edu/uk-irish for detailed information.

Join Dean Lisa Gates to learn about the Fulbright scholarship and Watson Fellowship programs, the application process, and updates for next year. Registration is appreciated.

The Watson Fellowship provides funding for the year following graduation to pursue an international, multi-country independent, self-designed project. Open to all citizenships. go.middlebury.edu/watson

George Thompson brings his Publisher-in-Residence series back to Middlebury in the second week of Winter Term ‘26. Join George for a 75-minute lunch session on Wednesday, 1/14, where he will provide the latest intel and insights about the state of the publishing world. There will also be a limited number of advising sessions on Wednesday, 1/14, and Thursday, 1/15, for faculty to meet individually with George about their scholarly hopes, plans, and questions.

Our teaching doesn’t always go as planned. Join this two-part session for faculty and staff on using Critical Incident Analysis as an approach to unexpected events in teaching.

Facilitated by Netta Avineri (Conflict Transformation).

Open to all staff and faculty. Register here.

Our teaching doesn’t always go as planned. Join this two-part session for faculty and staff on using Critical Incident Analysis as an approach to unexpected events in teaching.

Facilitated by Netta Avineri (Conflict Transformation).

Open to all staff and faculty. Register here.

With new technology creating challenges to current teaching and assessment strategies, how can instructors respond effectively and maintain trust with their students?