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Spring Student Symposium 2018

We invite all members of the Middlebury College community, guests, and members of the public as we celebrate the academic and creative endeavors of Middlebury students. Friday will feature oral presentations, poster presentations and displays throughout the day in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. Student presenters include all four classes at Middlebury and all fields of academic scholarship.

A full schedule of activities can be found online at http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/resources/ctlr/students/uro/symposi…

McCardell Bicentennial Hall

Open to the Public

Scott Saul, The Berkeley Revolution-Students Develop a Digital Archive of One City's Transformation in the Late-60s/70s

How can digital history projects exist in the college classroom—and share knowledge to the broader public from that space? The Berkeley Revolution: A digital archive of one city’s transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s is a website and collective project that emerged from an honors undergraduate seminar in American Studies at UC-Berkeley, “The Bay Area in the Seventies,” taught by Scott Saul in the spring of 2017.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Closed to the Public

Scott Saul, Chapter & Verse-Podcasting the Digital Public Humanities

Scott Saul, professor of English at University of California-Berkeley, will discuss the development of Chapter & Verse, a books-and-arts podcast he hosts. The podcast is sponsored by UC-Berkeley’s Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. It probes the cultural imagination—what Joan Didion once called the stories we tell ourselves to live—by delving into novels, nonfiction, poems, music, film, and other touchstones of our culture, with an eye to the spells they cast and the questions they raise.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Closed to the Public

Schwarzman Scholars Info Session

Join Christian Tanja from the Schwarzman Scholars Program to learn about this post-graduate fellowship to China. Open to international and US students, the language of instruction is English. The Schwarzman scholarship, inspired by the Rhodes scholarship, is a program designed to help future leaders meet the challenges of the 21st century and beyond by preparing them to better understand China’s culture, economy, governance, and motivations.

Davis Family Library 201- Watson Lecture Hall

Promoting Student STEM Skills Through Inquiry Instruction

Workshop leader Gordon Uno, Professor of Biology at the University of Oklahoma, is a renowned educator and leader in promoting active learning. His training and research are in plant biology, but the workshop topics, examples, and methods span the STEM disciplines. The two sessions (am and pm on Friday) focus on evidence-based, active-learning methods and other high-impact practices appropriate for those just starting out as well as seasoned veterans.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Closed to the Public