MIIS Alumni and Faculty Interpret at Milestone Event in Las Vegas
Middlebury Institute alumni and/or faculty collaborated at a milestone conference interpreting event in Las Vegas recently.
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Middlebury Institute alumni and/or faculty collaborated at a milestone conference interpreting event in Las Vegas recently.
Second-year student Samantha Vila MATI ’19 won World Literature Today’s student translation contest with her translation of a short story by Peruvian author Gunter Silva.
Katharina’s summer fellowship will help Amnesty International with its priority campaigns addressing the global refugee crisis, gun violence, and protecting human rights defenders around the world. Her responsibilities will include research, communications, and attending Congressional hearings on behalf of the organization.
Middlebury Institute Professor Netta Avineri has co-edited (with Laura R. Graham, Eric J. Johnson, Robin Conley Riner, Jonathan Rosa) the Routledge Publishers volume Language and Social Justice in Practice.
Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies Dr. William Potter comments on the passing of “one of my heroes,” Sen. Richard Lugar.
| by Masako Toki
The Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies hosted a conference March 29-30 for high school students from Japan, Russia, and the U.S. to address issues of nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament.
Two students and a faculty member from the Middlebury Institute collaborated to create a strategic negotiation toolkit for the Republic of Sudan as it seeks to join the World Trade Organization.
Maureen Sweeney MPA ’94, David Lawrence Chiesa MATESOL ’10, Sean Brownlee MBA ’11, and Shawn Daniel Harris MPA ’13 honored.
| by Jason Warburg
“For decades, our simultaneous interpretation program could not have functioned without Bill Wood’s expertise,” said Laura Burian MATI ’95, dean of the Institute’s Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education.
Middlebury Institute faculty members Jason Martel, Gabriel Guillén, and Claire Eagle presented a workshop highlighting innovative strategies used by faculty in the Summer Intensive Language Program at annual California Language Teachers Association (CLTA) conference.