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| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Max Troyer, chair of the Middlebury Institute’s Translation and Localization Management degree program has been appointed the Grover M. Hermann Chair in International Business Management in recognition of his “outstanding scholarship and practice in the area of localization management.”
| by Kira Lemons
MIIS Students in the International Education Management program (IEM) spend their final semester working with organizations in the international education field. We spoke with Aleena Yunuba Hammack ‘20 who is participating in a practicum with Camp Fire, a nonprofit organization with a 110-year history of inclusive youth development.
Middlebury Institute Professor George Henson has been nominated for a Northern California Book Award in the translated fiction category for his translation of Mephisto’s Waltz: Selected Short Stories by Sergio Pitol.
Legacy Society donors Tom and Sarah Pattison have devoted their lives — and their giving — to helping train the next generation of experts in the field of nonproliferation.
Associate Professor of Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Philipp Bleek presented on “Drones and CBRN Terrorism Threats and Responses” as the closing speaker for the June 3-4 “Countering Drones 2020” conference, organized by Defense iQ.
| by Winnie Heh
On graduation day, Lauren Hammer Aguilera MATI ‘20 was hired to be a Spanish Interpreter at the COVID-19 Testing Center in Watsonville and she started working full time the very next day.
International Education Management Professor Anne Campbell and Thi Nguyen MAIEM ‘20 presented research on climate anxiety and international student mobility at the first International Education Climate Action Summit on May 21.
| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Professor John Balcom of Chinese T&I just published a new book of translated poetry by the Taiwan poet Wu Sheng titled My Village: Selected Poems, 1972-2014.
Middlebury Institute Professor George Henson translated an essay by Bolivian author Edmundo Paz Soldán, entitled “Strange Times,” about life in Covid 19 quarantine, which was just published in World Literature Today.
| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Middlebury Institute Professor George Henson presented his translation of Mexican novelist Alberto Chimal’s novel The Most Fragile Objects at the 41st annual Palacion de Minería International Book Fair in Mexico City in February.
