Environmental Policy and Management

Field Work: Channeling a Passion for Food into a Career in Sustainability

Jason Warburg — 2025-05-09T10:03:22-0700

Environmental Policy and Management student Leilani Leszkay has put her passion for food into action by helping the campus café craft a healthier menu.

A Leadership Journey in the National Parks & the Urgent Need for a Unified Vision of Conservation

rchristopherson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-17T09:57:26-0700

Conservation would be more successful, sustainable, and equitable if the work were more collaborative, embracing and partnering with organizations that focus on, for example, environmental justice, science, history, and human health. Now that America is facing another anti-environmental administration, more prepared (and vengeful) than the last, that call for collective action may again be urgent.

Plant-Based Food Expo

rchristopherson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-13T13:21:20-0700

Try delicious plant-based foods, get samples, coupons, giveaways, recipes and more!

Global Climate Justice in the Age of Adaptation

rchristopherson@middlebury.edu — 2025-02-28T15:38:11-0800

Because the world has been unwilling and unable to respond to the threat of global climate change in time with appropriate measures of mitigation, we are now condemned to live in the “Age of Adaptation.”

Environmental Writing Workshop

rchristopherson@middlebury.edu — 2025-02-12T13:44:19-0800

This is an in-person only workshop to build practical skills in environmental writing. The session will include micro lectures, generative writing time, small group sharing, self-editing practice, and how to pitch stories.

Integrating Climate and Nature: A Dual Approach to Business Resilience

rchristopherson@middlebury.edu — 2025-02-07T10:21:34-0800

Solving the climate crisis requires a holistic understanding of nature’s critical role. The most productive way forward is to use integrated strategies and take a dual approach to climate change and nature.

Student Researchers Sharpen Their Skills at the Center for the Blue Economy

Caitlin Fillmore — 2025-02-06T16:02:06-0800

Students put their skills to work and get a career head start in innovative roles in ocean research at the center based at the Middlebury Institute.

Field Work: Students Help the Public Learn to Love Sharks

Mark C. Anderson — 2025-01-22T13:54:14-0800

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.

Graduates Celebrate with Loved Ones at Winter Commencement 2024

Jason Warburg — 2024-12-16T06:38:32-0800

Thirty-seven Middlebury Institute graduates from 12 homelands were feted by family, friends, faculty, staff, and alumni at winter Commencement 2024.

How I Got Hired: Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State

Flynn Pollard — 2024-12-12T10:08:00-0800

Alum Flynn Pollard shares how his education at the Middlebury Institute and diverse experiences prepared him for a dynamic career as a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State.