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| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Eleven students in the Middlebury Institute’s International Environmental Policy program are participating in fully funded summer internships through the Center for the Blue Economy.
Middlebury Institute student Christina Lukeman has been awarded the Projects for Peace fellowship and $10,000 to build a business literacy program in Cambodia.
Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet and Congressman Sam Farr joined Middlebury Institute students, faculty, staff and alumni at a September 19 breakfast celebrating the two institutions’ long history of shared values.
The new class of Middlebury Institute Dean’s Fellows includes students from around the world who are passionate about the environment, education, security, intercultural communication and social change, reflecting a commitment to the mission of the Institute.
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.
Major fellowships and scholarships awarded to Middlebury Institute students this year include Fulbright, Boren, California Sea Grants and U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships.
This summer three Middlebury Institute Research Fellows will study the risk copper mines pose to river basins in four countries, Australia, Peru, Chile and Zambia, under the guidance of professor and principal investigator Lyuba Zarsky.
Two Middlebury Institute students hosted a digital storytelling workshop for youth living in a deserted US Naval base in Panama in January as part of a special Institute fellowship. They created a story of their own with the help of a young filmmaker and Middlebury College student.
Recent Middlebury Institute Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies graduate Tom Gray is the first recipient of a new two-year fellowship with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in Vienna, Austria.
Two recent alumnae and one student from the Middlebury Institute’s International Environmental Policy program have been awarded the prestigious California Sea Grant Fellowship.
