The Social Science Research Modules project continues to make progress in its efforts to create shareable modules for learning how to conduct research in the social sciences. They completed a module on surveys, are developing a module on interviews that will be beta tested this spring, and have plans for creating two additional modules on the fundamentals of research and data analysis. You can learn more about this effort, and gain access to these modules at the project’s website.
The midd.data steering committee has approved four new micro-grants for colleagues at the college and institute, and one leave grant for the 2022-23 academic year.
Jeff Sawyer from The Center for Careers and Internships (CCI) shares information about career opportunities in the technology and data, and how to work with CCI to explore.
Midd.data chats with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the epochal changes wrought by the rise of AI and the ways in which liberal arts institutions can and should adapt to prepare students for this new age.
Lighting Talk by Alex Newhouse, Middlebury Institute Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, on Open-Source Intelligence and Operational Security for Researching the Far Right.
Dr. Hang Du of Middlebury’s Chinese Department has for over a decade been building and analyzing a database of spoken Chinese to understand how student’s studying abroad learn Chinese. We checked in with her to see how she is doing this work, what she has learned, and what advice she has for others embarking on this type of study.
