Academic Excellence

6 Items

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   Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences,  Academic Excellence,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Faculty

   Award-Winning Translation

   Jennifer Grotz, director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, has won a PEN America Literary Award for poetry in translation.

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   2020s,  Middlebury College,  Academic Excellence,  Students

   An Incredible Journey

   NPR chronicles the stories of four students from Shanti Bhavan, a residential school in India dedicated to helping students break the cycle of poverty. Kusuma, 18, is on her way to Middlebury after scoring 91 percent on her board examinations in India.

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   2020s,  Middlebury College,  Academic Excellence,  Access,  Experience,  Science & Tech,  Students

   Student Research Spotlight: Sea Minks of Maine

   by Olivia Olson ’21.5

   Olivia Olson ’21.5 shares her summer research about extinct sea minks in Maine, and how her work can help inform preservation practices for other species. 

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   Middlebury College,  Academic Excellence,  Faculty,  Science & Tech

   Demystifying Data

   Middlebury economics professor Caitlin Myers, along with history professor Kathryn Morse, is directing an initiative titled midd.data, with a goal of making digital methods and data science lessons widely available to students, regardless of their intended major.

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   2020s,  Middlebury College,  Language Schools,  Academic Excellence,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Philanthropy

   A Gift for Hebrew Education

   The Middlebury School of Hebrew has received a $1.17 million donation from the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation. 

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   Bread Loaf School of English,  Academic Excellence,  Faculty

   An Exemplary Educator

   Beverly Moss, director of the Bread Loaf Teacher Network, has won the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication Exemplar Award.