Graduates Celebrate Community and Perseverance at Spring Commencement
| by Jason Warburg
Middlebury Institute students, family, friends, alumni, faculty, and staff gathered Saturday to celebrate the achievements of 219 graduates from 32 homelands.
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As a Localization Project Manager, I’m More Excited Than Scared about AI
| by Claudia Siegenthaler TLM ’23
Alum Claudia Siegenthaler says there’s no doubt that AI is shifting the role of humans in translation and localization management, but she’s seeing a lot of upside as a project manager at a localization company.
Middlebury Institute Will Host First-Ever West Coast Edition of International Cyber Competition
| by Caitlin Fillmore
The Middlebury Institute has partnered with the Atlantic Council to host undergraduate and graduate students in November 2025 for a cyber competition. Participants will analyze and respond to a fictional cyber crisis during the weekend event.
Competition Develops Future Cybersecurity Leaders through Interactive Policymaking Scenarios
| by Caitlin Fillmore
The Middlebury Institute fielded two teams of students who responded to fictional cyber catastrophes during the annual Cyber 9/12 competitions, one in Washington, D.C., and one virtually.
State Department Honors Alum for Project Reaching a Million Egyptian Students
| by Jason Warburg
Jeffrey Mattison MATESOL ’05 received an English Language Specialist Impact Award from the U.S. State Department for his work revising and enhancing English textbooks used by a million students in Egypt.
Field Work: Channeling a Passion for Food into a Career in Sustainability
| by Jason Warburg
Environmental Policy and Management student Leilani Leszkay has put her passion for food into action by helping the campus café craft a healthier menu.
Community Partner Convenings
Deepening community-based partnerships is a central component of conflict transformation-oriented work across Middlebury. As part of these efforts, colleagues and students regularly meet with community partners to reflect on and explore student engagement and broader impacts of their project-based experiential learning, courses, internships, and Practica.
Field Work: Students Localize a New Online Game Through Class Project
| by Jason Warburg
Translation and localization management students Xiaofei Shen and Minting Lu gained valuable professional experience localizing an online game in development as a class project.
In Conversation: Language Education in the Age of Rapid Technological Change
| by Sierra Abukins
We recently caught up with TESOL program chair Jason Martel, the 2024 Faculty Excellence Award winner, to talk about whether it’s still worth learning a language these days and how long-time language teaching paradigms need to shift.
In the News: Can Sea Urchin Ranching Can Become a Viable, Ecosystem-Boosting Business?
| by Caitlin Fillmore
The Center for the Blue Economy’s research on whether sea urchin ranching could become California’s newest sustainable aquaculture venture was featured in an article in Edible Monterey Bay.