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Researchers in Southern California are using lidar to improve scientists’ understanding of the erosional forces that cause bluffs to collapse. Dr. Charles Colgan, Director of Research at the Center for the Blue Economy, weighs in with research findings from a 2018 CBE study.
| by Jason Warburg
Middlebury Institute Professor Leire Carbonell Aguero MACI ’03 called interpreting President Biden’s inaugural address “the highest honor” of her career. She was recruited into the role of lead Spanish interpreter for the Biden campaign by fellow alumna Maureen Sweeney MPA ’94.
In a May podcast, Middlebury Institute career advisor and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) Scott Webb MPA ’07 shared tips for RPCVs looking to break into the field of international development.
| by Matthew Jennings
How recent Middlebury Institute graduate Gustavo Mercado MACI ’19 passed one of the United Nation’s most difficult interpretation examinations.
Do you want to move into project management or team management in the language services industry? Are you already working in localization but you want to level up your technical skills and business acumen to deliver tangible results for your organization, setting up your next promotion?
| by Jason Warburg
Mariah Rust MAT ’22, a first-year translation student, has won the prose category of World Literature Today’s Student Translation Prize for 2021.
In 2008 the United Nations designated June 8 as World Oceans Day, “a day for humanity to celebrate the ocean.” Since then, it’s had about as much to do with the ecological economic and human rights disasters affecting our seas as Arbor Day has to do with global deforestation. Because it’s so vast and poorly regulated, the ocean sector of the global economy has been largely out of sight and out of mind.
| by Jason Warburg
A pair of Middlebury Institute graduates won a prestigious international interpretation competition, citing the support of professors and fellow classmates as key to their win.
Institute Professor Mahabat Baimyrzaeva encourages her students to uncover their deeply seated ideas and assumptions, subject them to critical review, and, when necessary and possible, replace them with a more accurate view of reality.
The Middlebury Institute’s Faculty Excellence Award for 2020/21 has been awarded to Professor Philipp Bleek of the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies program, who met the challenge of adapting his courses to the online learning environment with enthusiasm and innovation.
