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| by Jessie Raymond
Maureen Sweeney MPA ’94, deputy chief of the interpreting staff for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, developed a remote interpreting program to expand language services at the Games while giving MIIS students and recent graduates a chance to test their skills in a high-profile, real-world setting.
| by Jason Warburg
The Government Accountability Office has named the Middlebury Institute a partner school, ensuring targeted outreach and recruiting of Institute students for internships that frequently result in job offers after graduation. The designation came about after extended collaboration with MIIS and Middlebury alumni employed at GAO.
| by Jason Warburg
Welcome Week at the Middlebury Institute saw the school’s fall 2021 class of 330 students from 33 countries get to know the Middlebury Institute both virtually and in-person through a range of sessions and activities designed to give each student the tools they need to be successful at MIIS.
| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
The 2019 Save the Children Global Childhood Report was co-authored by Middlebury Institute Professor Beryl Levinger and alumna Nikki Gillette MPA ‘07/MBA ’08.
| by Jason Warburg
Middlebury Institute environmental policy student Erin Lannon MAIEP ’19 won the student division of Startup Challenge Monterey Bay with her proposal for a venture that would install electric vehicle charging stations in private business’ parking lots across California.
Second-year student Samantha Vila MATI ’19 won World Literature Today’s student translation contest with her translation of a short story by Peruvian author Gunter Silva.
| by Jason Warburg
The 2019 UN MoU Universities Conference brought representatives of translation and interpretation programs and UN staff members from around the world together in Monterey for a two-day gathering on the Institute campus.
Co-founded by faculty members from three local higher education institutions, the Community Solutions Lab partners students with local non-profits and community leaders.
| by Masako Toki
The Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies hosted a conference March 29-30 for high school students from Japan, Russia, and the U.S. to address issues of nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament.
| 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.
