| by Cassandra Mainiero
Using worldwide changes as a creative catalyst, Middlebury College dance professor Laurel Jenkins is re-imagining how dance can transform trauma into resilience. Now, like an ode to her research, Jenkins will share such themes in two original performances.
Dr. Kristina Walowski, Assistant Professor of Geology, and a colleague from the University of Maryland have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled, “How Variable is Magma Decompression Rate during a Single Eruption?”
Middlebury’s Dr. Obie Porteous, Assistant Professor of Economics, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Agricultural Trade and Adaptation to Environmental Change.”
The SNAVE Foundation has awarded Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English and Teacher Network a three-year grant of $100,500.
Middlebury Distinguished College Professor, David Colander, has received a award to complete a project at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
Professor Mez Baker-Médard will lead a study in Madagascar with colleagues from the University of Vermont and University of New Hampshire.
The multiyear initiative, supported by the Rockefeller Family Fund, aims to reimagine food systems and education.
Alexander Handwerger, research scholar in geology, and colleagues from North Carolina State University and Northwestern University have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s PREEVENTS program (Prediction of and Resilience against Extreme Events) for a project titled “Defining precursors of ground failure: a multiscale framework for early landslide prediction through geomechanics and remote sensing.”
The Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs has announced that four Middlebury faculty members were recently awarded fellowships from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation.
