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Society & Culture
June 16, 2017

Unmasking female-centered bullying in schools

An anthropology professor chronicles her multi-year foray into a suburban high school to study female-specific bullying, competition, and aggression, concluding that actions assumed to be benign should be reclassified as violence.

topics: Department of Anthropology, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences, teenagers, violence,

Public Safety leadership requested a review of current policy to consider an amendment allowing supervisors to use their judgement to respond to any campus area when a rapid response is required for life preservation.

topics: announcements, Department of Public Safety, River Campus Libraries,
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June 15, 2017

Our journey to Elmina

Gilda DeDona on the transition from tourist to researcher in her first weeks at a summer field school in Ghana.

topics: Department of Chemical and Sustainability Engineering, Ghana, Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures, Renato Perucchio,
young woman reaching for a paper heart, ignoring a star, money and carrot
Society & Culture
June 14, 2017

What really motivates us

Is it money, power, and fame? Or rather fear and punishment? For nearly 40 years Richard Ryan and Edward Deci, the founders of self-determination theory, have sought to answer the question of human motivation.

topics: Department of Psychology, Edward Deci, QuadCast, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences,
Ignacio Franco
University News
June 9, 2017

Ignacio Franco wins junior faculty award

Ignacio Franco, assistant professor of chemistry and physics, has been selected as a winner of the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for fall 2017 by the American Chemical Society.

topics: announcements, Department of Chemistry, Ignacio Franco, School of Arts and Sciences,
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June 9, 2017

Is it possible to have any more fun?

Tali Flatté ’19 on her first days participating in a summer field school in Ghana, from the University of Ghana campus to the forts, castles, and lighthouses on the coast.

archival image of Bread Loaf conference writers, including poet RObert Frost, sitting outside near a lake

Poet Jennifer Grotz, a professor of English, has been named the next director of the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. She is the first woman to serve as director of the oldest American conference for writers.

topics: announcements, Department of English, Jennifer Grotz, School of Arts and Sciences,
portrait of Jeffry Runner
University News
June 4, 2017

Jeffrey Runner named dean of the College

The professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics succeeds Richard Feldman, who served as dean of the College for the past decade, and will begin his five-year term on July 1, pending approval by the Board of Trustees.

topics: announcements, Jeffrey Runner,