Science and mathematics are a vital and dynamic part of Middlebury’s liberal arts curriculum.
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Students who want the best in STEM education will find it here, as well as a holistic education that fosters a deep and integrative approach to any field of study they choose. Middlebury’s science and math departments blend the high-tech facilities and cutting-edge research typically associated with larger universities with the collaborative learning atmosphere of a liberal arts college. With 11 departments and programs focused on math and both the physical and life sciences, Middlebury not only has a broad range of ways to study the sciences, it gives students the freedom to explore them all.
Recent Middlebury College STEM Annual Report
Forensic Anthropology & The Art of Making the Dead tell their Tales - Solving a 3,000 year old Mystery
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
Open to the Public
Public Lecture: The Fats of Life - The Metabolic Origins of Neurodegeneration
Bio: Dr Corthalis is an associated professor and multidisciplinary researcher with a broad and extensive background in biomedical science and biological/forensic anthropology. This expertise is unique and encompasses a wide range of research areas, with a specific focus on the critical connection between neurodegeneration, cell stressors, and the metabolism of carbohydrates and lipids.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
Open to the Public
Film screening of ECONOCLAST: HERMAN DALY AND THE GOSPEL OF GROWTH, an acclaimed new film by veteran documentary producer John de Graaf.The film profiles the famous economist who challenged his discipline’s focus on economic growth (as unsustainable on a finite planet, and resulting in great inequality) and launched the new field of Ecological Economists.
Axinn Center 232
Open to the Public
“Middlebury School of the Environment: What We Have Learned and What Comes Next” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Curt Gervich, Director, Middlebury School of the Environment and Professor in the Center for Earth and Environmental Science at SUNY Plattsburgh.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
Beyond Individual Bias: Bringing Structural Inequality into Children’s Prejudice-Reduction Research
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104
“The Narratives of Nature” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Bira Vanara, a Mixed Media Artist.
For our entire known history, humans as a species have told stories about how we and nature came to be, and why things happen as they do. This discourse will explore how story still determines the way we perceive our relationship to the natural world through the narrative lens.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
“Desertification Archives: Global Black Ecologies and Anticipating Terror” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Brittany Meché, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Faculty in Science and Technology Studies and Africana Studies, Williams College.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
“Which Side Are You On?” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Garret Keizer, Writer.
The issue of environmental justice assayed from a viewpoint both leftishly biased and locally based. Questions raised: Why has “environmentalist” become a dirty word? What are the limits of environmentalism under capitalism? For whom will you be working ten years from now? Will you be working at all?
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
