/institute/ en /institute/advancing-your-career/career-guide/field-work-channeling-passion-food-career-sustainability Environmental Policy and Management student Leilani Leszkay has put her passion for food into action by helping the campus café craft a healthier menu. 2025-05-09T10:03:22-0700 Jason Warburg 45318 /institute/advancing-your-career/career-guide/field-work-students-localize-new-online-game-through-class Translation and localization management students Xiaofei Shen and Minting Lu gained valuable professional experience localizing an online game in development as a class project. 2025-05-06T10:03:56-0700 Jason Warburg 45328 /institute/advancing-your-career/career-guide/field-work-students-develop-workshops-help-community-avoid-scams Students, seniors and veterans learned how to avoid scams through an educational series developed by financial crime intelligence students at the Middlebury Institute. 2025-04-25T10:48:58-0700 Caitlin Fillmore 45291 /institute/advancing-your-career/career-guide/field-work-developing-expertise-nuclear-safeguards-lawrence Student Emma Scherer MANPTS ’25 built her professional connections and credentials through an internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 2025-03-04T15:34:15-0800 Jason Warburg 45178 /institute/advancing-your-career/career-guide/field-work-what-its-intern-nuclear-threat-initiative-nti Middlebury Institute student Shahneela Tariq MANPTS ’24 is building a career as a nuclear security professional before graduation through a fulfilling research internship, professional networking, and initiatives such as launching her own podcast. 2025-03-04T11:29:43-0800 Jason Warburg 45199 /institute/advancing-your-career/career-guide/field-work-students-help-public-learn-love-sharks Through a partnership with several world-class marine labs, environmental policy and management faculty and students are working to enlighten the public on the importance and elegance of apex predators. 2025-01-22T13:54:14-0800 Mark C. Anderson 44879 /institute/advancing-your-career/career-guide/field-work-helping-businesses-and-his-boss-set-shop-asia International trade student and veteran Tom Short navigated the complex and evolving economic dynamics of Vietnam during his practicum semester working for a global regulatory services firm. 2025-01-14T13:35:47-0800 Caitlin Fillmore 44878 /institute/advancing-your-career/career-guide/field-work-student-survey-pajaro-flooding-victims-will-inform Environmental policy students collaborated with nonprofits on research assessing the impact of 2023 floods on the Pajaro community and surfacing their unmet needs. 2024-12-02T13:42:18-0800 Caitlin Fillmore 44602 /institute/news/field-work-exploring-national-identity-culture-and-language-montenegro-state-department First-ever Diplomacy Lab participant Nancy Kwang Johnson delivered a presentation to the State Department on how language drives identity in the tumultuous region of the former Yugoslavia. 2024-11-15T12:16:41-0800 Caitlin Fillmore 44461 /institute/news/student-drafts-first-ever-congressional-bill-marine-carbon-dioxide-removal Environmental policy and management student Allie Chapman will share her experience drafting legislation during a free public event at the Middlebury Institute on October 21. 2024-10-17T14:02:04-0700 Caitlin Fillmore 44631