Three Middlebury Institute faculty members, Netta Avineri, Gabriel Guillen, and Thor Sawin, share their experiences cultivating mobile mindsets in courses designed to rely heavily on personal interactions, partnerships, and travel, but had to be reimagined due to Covid-19.
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.
From June 15th through July 24th, the Middlebury Institute brought together 13 distinguished fellows with 46 leading experts in US-Russia relations for the fourth annual Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia (MSSR).
Middlebury Institute student Matthew Ross successfully defended his thesis translation of “Les Loups” by Eugene Klein, a memoir of a holocaust survivor, from French to English via Zoom.
Two Middlebury Institute students share their research the impact of the global pandemic on their chosen fields of nonproliferation and language services.
On graduation day, Lauren Hammer Aguilera MATI ‘20 was hired to be a Spanish Interpreter at the COVID-19 Testing Center in Watsonville and she started working full time the very next day.
Middlebury Institute Professor Pushpa Iyer shares how, as a response to the Covid pandemic, she recreated an intense storytelling course with personal connections between faculty and students at its heart, to fit the new reality of remote learning.
Middlebury Institute faculty have adjusted syllabi and teaching methods as a response to the global pandemic, at times incorporating the crisis directly into lesson plans.
Middlebury Institute alumnus Ben Cogswell was awarded the Crystal Apple Award for using innovative and creative methods to keep kindergarten class at Bardin Elementary in Salinas engaged and learning during this period of remote schooling.
After transitioning to working from home, Middlebury Institute staff member Naomi Braswell started making masks in her spare time. She has now made over 300 masks, shipping them across the country and even overseas.
