Spring 2024 Fellowship Leave Grant and Micro-Grant Award Recipients
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Data Science Across Disciplines Class of 2024
This J-term, midd.data mounted our fourth iteration of Data Science Across Disciplines, and it was another big success! Six instructors—Alex Lyford (Mathematics and Statistics), Bert Johnson (Political Science), Pete Nelson (Geography), Katherine O’Brien (Center for Community Engagement), Conor Stinson (‘06.5) and Michael Czekanski (‘20)—worked with fifty students spanning fourteen different declared majors to solve a range of challenging, data-driven problems, while learning the necessary data science and computational tools along the way!
Fall 2023 Micro-Grant Award Recipients
midd.data’s Fall 2023 microgrants support a variety of activities, from anlayzing maple sap to improving oratory to studying financial crimes.
Data Science Across Disciplines to be taught in January 2024
Find out what’s on tap this January term for our popular Data Science Across Disciplines course!
Joshua Kalla Lecture
On October 9, Yale political scientist Joshua Kalla visited Middlebury to give a talk on “Polarization and persuasion in American Politics,” co-sponsored by midd.data, the Conflict Transformation Collaborative, and the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. Professor Kalla discussed evidence from field experiments demonstrating that under certain conditions, perspective taking and storytelling may shift exclusionary attitudes and policy preferences.
Another great summer Intro to Data course!
This summer midd.data offered our credit-bearing “Introduction to Data” summer course for a second time, following our successful launch last year. This course is designed to provide students from backgrounds that have historically been underrepresented in data science with new opportunities to learn about and participate in the field.
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Leave year fellowships awarded
Midd.data is pleased to announce our faculty research fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. Faculty fellows receive salary replacement or other financial support for digital or data-oriented scholarship pursued during research leaves. For more about these grants and how to apply see midd.data Funding and Support.
Data Science Across Disciplines
midd.data hosted a Lightning Talk on Thursday, 5/4 from 12:45-1:45 PM ET in Lib 105 and on Zoom. Panel speakers include David Allen (Biology), Jessica L’Roe (Geography), Amy Yuen (Political Science), Genie Giaimo (Writing & Rhetoric), and Gyula Zsombok (French/Linguistics).
NOWSPACE
Midd.data held a Lightning Talk by Michelle Leftherist (Studio Art) on Thursday, 4/20 from 12:45-1:45 PM ET in Lib 105 A/B and on Zoom.
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