Campus Notes

WIPO Fellows 2019 with Sally Young
Several of the 2019 MIIS WIPO Fellows with alumna Sally Young MATI ‘99 (far right), (from left to right) Naomi Hwang MACI ‘19, Chris Healy MATLM ‘19, Erika Egner MAT ‘19, Megan Ling MATLM ‘20, Ruth Wang MAT ‘19.
 

At least seven Middlebury Institute students have been offered a summer fellowship at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization and the Institute recently renewed their decade old memorandum of understanding (MOU).

Seven Middlebury Institute students have been selected for a fellowship with the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva through a longstanding agreement between the organization and the Institute, a connection made through alumna Sally Young MATI ‘99. Young, who heads the Asian Languages Section within the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) TranslationService at WIPO returns to Monterey regularly to recruit graduates and maintain the important relationship she helps establish well over a decade ago.

The seven Middlebury Institute alumni spending their summer in Geneva are:

Translation:

Reddihi Desai MAT ‘18

Chris Healy MATLM ‘19

Erika Egner MAT ‘19

Megan Lin MATLM ‘20

Naomi Huang MACI ’19

 

Terminology:

Cheng Song MATLM ‘19

Ruth Wang MAT ‘20

 

For More Information

Jason Warburg
jwarburg@middlebury.edu
831-647-3516

Eva Gudbergsdottir
evag@middlebury.edu
831-647-6606