Helena Independent Record: High-seas adventure for recent Middlebury grads: “About three years ago, two young adventurers who now call Helena home began dreaming of a wild adventure of building a sailboat and setting out to sea from Lopez Island, Wash., to Ketchikan, Alaska.”
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Bill McKibben – Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million – washingtonpost.com: “This month may have been the most important yet in the two-decade history of the fight against global warming,” writes Middlebury’s Bill McKibben in the Washington Post. “Al Gore got his Nobel in Stockholm; international negotiators made real progress on a treaty in Bali; and in Washington, Congress actually worked up the nerve to raise gas mileage standards for cars.”
Middlebury and Monterey host conference on global education January 22-24: “Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies will host a three-day conference on global education, January 22-24, 2008, in Monterey, California. The ConnectEd Conference will focus on the changes in education brought about by globalization and technology: how institutions adapt to change, what changes are anticipated, and how to harness change to promote and improve education throughout the world.”
Architecture Awards Go to KieranTimberlake Associates, Stanley Tigerman – Chronicle.com: “The American Institute of Architects is giving its 2008 Architecture Firm Award to KieranTimberlake Associates, which has designed buildings and planned renovations for a number of colleges,” including the recently completed Atwater residence and dining halls at Middlebury College.
Middlebury one of 71 schools profiled for ‘Making a Difference’ in the world: “Middlebury College is one of 71 colleges and universities profiled in the 2007 edition of Making a Difference Colleges, an annual guidebook that measures colleges on their commitment to healing the Earth and its inhabitants. “
Vermont Edition Interview: Middlebury College Psychology Professor Barbara Hofer on the “Electronic Tether”: “A few years ago Middlebury College Psychology Professor Barbara Hofer noticed that her students were using their cell phones to call their parents … a lot. And she got curious about whether what she calls the ‘electronic tether’ of the cell phone delays adulthood in college kids. So she teamed up with several of her students to create a study looking at how people communicate with their parents during the college years. VPR’s Jane Lindholm stopped by Professor Hofer’s office to talk about the study.”