Bossa nova icon Astrud Gilberto, who died recently, was underappreciated in her native Brazil, writes Professor of Luso- Hispanic Studies Mario Higa in the Conversation.
Middlebury has received an anonymous gift of $2 million to expand the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute and to provide financial aid to graduate students.
Geography professor Peter Nelson was a featured guest on a recent episode of the WBUR podcast On Point focusing on big-city dwellers who increasingly leave for small towns and suburbs.
Yardena Gerwin ’22.5 and Hoang Minh Hieu Nguyen ’23 have been awarded the Gates-Cambridge Scholarship, which will fund a one-year master’s degree at the University of Cambridge.
Middlebury is one of 104 colleges and universities to receive a six-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support initiatives that foster more inclusive and equitable introductory education in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math.