2019 News / en What’s the Story? VT Awarded Three-year Grant /grants-sponsored-programs/news/whats-story-vt-awarded-three-year-grant The SNAVE Foundation has awarded Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English and Teacher Network a three-year grant of&nbsp;$100,500. 2019-12-01T00:00:00-0500 aarons@middlebury.edu 19304 David Colander Receives Fulbright Specialist Award /grants-sponsored-programs/news/david-colander-receives-fulbright-specialist-award Middlebury Distinguished College Professor, David Colander, has received a&nbsp;<a href="https://exchanges.state.gov/us/program/fulbright-specialist-program">Fulbright Specialist Program</a>&nbsp;award to complete a project at Oxford University in the United&nbsp;Kingdom. 2019-11-01T00:00:00-0400 aarons@middlebury.edu 19307 Major NSF Grant Will Fund Research on Marine Protected Areas /grants-sponsored-programs/news/major-nsf-grant-will-fund-research-marine-protected-areas Professor Mez Baker-Médard will lead a study in Madagascar with colleagues from the University of Vermont and University of New&nbsp;Hampshire. 2019-09-19T00:00:00-0400 aarons@middlebury.edu 19313 Middlebury Receives Grant for New Perennials Project /grants-sponsored-programs/news/middlebury-receives-grant-new-perennials-project The multiyear initiative, supported by the Rockefeller Family Fund, aims to reimagine food systems and&nbsp;education. 2019-09-10T00:00:00-0400 aarons@middlebury.edu 19310 Four Faculty Members Receive Whiting Fellowships /grants-sponsored-programs/news/four-faculty-members-receive-whiting-fellowships The Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs has announced that four Middlebury faculty members were recently awarded fellowships from the Marion and&nbsp;Jasper&nbsp;Whiting&nbsp;Foundation. 2019-07-31T00:00:00-0400 aarons@middlebury.edu 19322 Geology Research Scholar Receives NSF Grant /grants-sponsored-programs/news/geology-research-scholar-receives-nsf-grant 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&nbsp;and&nbsp;remote&nbsp;sensing.” 2019-07-31T00:00:00-0400 aarons@middlebury.edu 19319