Student News

Want to Combat Climate Change? Students Learn from Coffee Farmers in Rural Colombia

Sierra Abukins — 2023-04-25T10:59:52-0700

In a small town in the mountains of Colombia students explored sustainable coffee-growing practices, biodiversity, and rural revitalization.

Professional Service Semester Spotlight

Ian Driscoll — 2023-03-29T15:07:59-0700

Three MIIS students discuss their experiences completing the Institute’s Professional Service Semester. Their stories illustrate how experiential learning positively impacts MIIS students in developing their professional careers.

Environmental Policy Student Wins Boren Award to Study in Vietnam

Jason Warburg — 2022-10-25T11:20:19-0700

Middlebury Institute student Noemi Agagianian MAIEP ’22 has won a $25,000 Boren Award to support Vietnamese language study while working with a local wildlife conservation organization in Hanoi.

CBE Waves Newsletter: Summer 2022

Rachel Christopherson — 2022-09-06T10:55:43-0700

A “How-To” Guide for Non-Economists to establish the Blue Economy in their National Income Accounts; Research from our Alumni and Students; Victory on the Policy Front for Ocean Climate Action

Ice Plant=Climate Change: Kamryn You Mak is a Planet Forward StoryFest Finalist

Rachel Christopherson — 2022-03-31T11:58:10-0700

The story of climate change is not a simple one, not easy to tell. Middlebury student Kamryn You Mak weaves a readable, light, yet profound tale, as she connects the deep threads and through lines of a changing planet to her own experience in her article “Ice Plant = Climate Change,” a Planet Forward StoryFest 2022 finalist.

CBE Waves Newsletter January 2022

Rachel Christopherson — 2022-01-26T10:00:00-0800

Stories include: The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary Needs Your Support; The Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, Volume 8, Issue 2, published; The Middlebury Climate Change Semester: Inaugural Program Begins; The Ocean Needs Our Help-Now.

The Middlebury Climate Change Semester: Inaugural Program Begins

Rachel Christopherson — 2022-01-24T14:01:18-0800

January 2022 marked the start of the first-ever Middlebury Climate Change Semester program, a unique and much-anticipated collaboration between Middlebury College in Vermont, and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) at Monterey. Undergraduate students from Middlebury College have joined graduate students at MIIS to study place-based examples of climate change, environmental history, and environmental justice.

CBE Waves Newsletter December 2021

Rachel Christopherson — 2021-12-14T14:00:00-0800

Stories include: New reports from the Center for the Blue Economy on the Economic Value of America’s Estuaries and Recreation on the California Coast; Contributions to the Economist Group’s World Ocean Initiative, Wilson Center’s Transatlantic Blue Economy Initiative, COP26, WWF articles, NOAA publication Visualizing the Three-Dimensional Footprint of Ocean Uses, and Virtual Reality DIVE-An Inspiring Journey through California’s Marine Protected Areas; CBE Celebrates its Ten Year Anniversary.

Alice McGown, International Environmental Policy Student, Attends COP26 to Present Her Work on Fossil Fuels

Clara Clymer — 2021-11-15T12:14:22-0800

Alice McGown, a second-year master’s candidate pursuing International Environmental Policy, attends COP26 to present her work on the overlap of fossil fuels and protected areas.

Student Alice McGown at COP26: Leave It In The Ground

Rachel Christopherson — 2021-10-25T10:53:22-0700

The Center for the Blue Economy celebrates Alice McGown, a master’s candidate pursuing International Environmental Policy, who will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow next week. She will bring one simple message to the nations of the world: leave fossil fuels in the ground.