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Providing a lens into rewarding summer experiences, six students shared images from their adventures gaining valuable professional experience in Thailand, Costa Rica, Minnesota, China, South Korea and Brazil by taking over the Middlebury Institute’s Instagram feed.
For Middlebury Institute student Tom Stagg MPA ’16, one small aspect of living and working in Patagonia in southern Chile ultimately loomed large: sharing a warm cup of yerba mate with his colleagues.
Twenty-two Middlebury Institute students took the opportunity to work on projects for international organizations in six countries while completing their degree requirements as part of this year’s International Professional Service Semester (IPSS) program.
Students from summer Intensive English Programs at the Middlebury Institute presented research on topics ranging from rising right-wing violence in Germany to educational inequality in Chile at the annual student symposium.
Middlebury Institute alumna Molly McKeon will study the links between microfinance and entrepreneurship in Mongolia as the inaugural research fellow with the Institute’s Center for Social Impact Learning.
Extensive collaboration between faculty and students at the Middlebury Institute and Middlebury College yielded a uniquely valuable practicum course focused on trade and development in China.
One of the most successful years of fundraising in the Middlebury Institute’s 61-year history generated more than $4.2 million to support student scholarships, immersive learning opportunities, and other institutional priorities.
Middlebury Institute student Melissa Hewitt’s 10,000-mile journey to Malawi began with a phone call home to Mom—a call that started her down a path of alumni connections that led all the way to Southeast Africa.
Faculty from the Middlebury Institute, Language Schools, Bread Loaf School of English, Schools Abroad, and the undergraduate college examined immersive learning in the digital age at a recent Envisioning Middlebury panel.
Analysts at the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies have concluded that images Russia provided as evidence in the effort to determine who shot down Malaysia Air 17 over Ukraine two years ago were “significantly modified or altered.”
