Middlebury’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) and the educational game designer iThrive will collaborate on a new simulation game and curriculum designed to build resilience among adolescents and give them the tools to recognize and reject overtures from violent extremist recruiters.
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.
Peter Nelson, professor of geography at Middlebury College, and Cheryl Morse, associate professor of geography at theUniversity of Vermont, used cell phone data in a new research project to track migration in Vermont.
LeeCharles McNeil ’23 credits Middlebury with exposing him to “viewpoints and belief systems that…I never knew existed.” In this piece, he reflects on how coming to Middlebury has changed him for the better. LeeCharles is a recipient of the Barbara and John Tormondsen ’82 Scholarship.
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.
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.