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The Middlebury Social Impact Corps combines undergraduate and graduate collaboration, mentorship and immersive learning, with client projects benefitting local non-profit partners. This year, the 8-week summer program also included lessons in remote community building and virtual problem solving.
On April 27th, Professor Netta Avineri presented at the CATESOL Steinbeck Chapter event “Education and the Creation of Just Societies”, on “Language and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy”.
| by Jason Warburg
A group of Middlebury Institute students and faculty recently traveled to Cuba recently to meet with government officials, diplomats, educators, writers, artists, and everyday citizens.
The Middlebury Institute’s eight-week summer language course helped 102 students significantly advance their proficiency in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.
The recent one-on-one meeting between the U.S. and Russian presidents turned the spotlight on the role of “the only other American in the room”—the president’s interpreter.
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The program recently welcomed 108 students for eight weeks of intensive study of Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.
| by Jason Warburg
Student Theresa Waldhäusl traveled to Geneva last week to accept the First Place award in the United Nations’ annual St. Jerome Translation Contest, in the German category.
| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Middlebury Institute student Bella Wan won silver in the highly competitive 7th Cross-Strait Interpreting Contest in Hong Kong.
Policy and language students collaborate for a multilingual conversation on climate change.
Middlebury Institute alumna Linda Childs Hothem found the perfect person to help make her dream for a foundation to support arts education come true in recent graduate Natalia Weinberger.
