The founder of San Francisco opera company Ars Minerva contacted Middlebury Institute translation professor Joe McClinton for help after finding three “lost” operas in the archives of Venice’s Biblioteca Marciana.
Employers ranging from Facebook to the State Department traveled to Monterey to recruit language students from the Middlebury Institute, with many sending Institute alumni as recruiters.
Professor Victor Friedman of Israel, the first recipient of the Institute’s new Tyler Visiting Fellow in Residence Award, will offer a public lecture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict March 7.
The Middlebury Institute currently has 62 students enrolled through the Peace Corps Fellows and Peace Corps Masters International programs as part of its long partnership with the Corps.
Middlebury Institute experts were featured in coverage by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Guardian (UK), CNN and others of North Korea’s nuclear program and the assassination of Kim Jong Nam.
Experts from the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies partnered with an organization founded by an Institute alumnus to offer nuclear security policy and practice training in Ghana.
Beginning March 1, the Middlebury Institute’s “WorldViews” speaker series will feature faculty experts exploring a range of critical world issues in the context of the Trump Administration’s first 100 days in office.
