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COVID-19 (Disease)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:

2020 senior celebration, May 24, 2020

 File
Identifier: A1.I.5_2020
Scope and Contents

Includes archived content from social media including Twitter and Instagram, as well as image and video files.

Dates: May 24, 2020

Al Khamash, Saher (Class of 2021), April 28, 2020 - July 2, 2020

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Identifier: A20_twilight_2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes participant agreements and approximately 30 diaries written by students and two diaries written by staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most diaries date from May, 2020 to July, 2020, but some extend through September, 2020.

Dates: April 28, 2020 - July 2, 2020

Alone Together episode 1: Dr. Mark Peluso, April 20, 2020

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Identifier: A7_Midd_Moment_Alone_Together_Episode_1_Mark_Peluso_20200420
Scope and Contents

In this special season of Midd Moment, Laurie Patton checks in with members of the Midd community to talk about how they are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this first episode, Dr. Mark Peluso, Middlebury's director of health services, shares the moment he first heard the word “COVID-19,” and when he realized the College would have to take big steps to help flatten the curve.

Dates: April 20, 2020

Alone Together episode 2: Sabine Poux '20, April 27, 2020

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Identifier: A7_Midd_Moment_Alone_Together_Episode_2_Sabine_Poux_20200427
Scope and Contents

In this special season of Midd Moment, Laurie Patton checks in with members of the Midd community to talk about how they are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, Sabine Poux ‘20, Editor in Chief of The Campus, discusses having her senior year cut short and what it's like to remotely manage a vibrant student journalism endeavor.

Dates: April 27, 2020

Alone Together episode 3: Jaewon Oh '13, MIIS ' 20, May 4, 2020

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Identifier: A7_Midd_Moment_Alone_Together_Episode_3_Jaewon_Oh_20200504
Scope and Contents

In this special season of Midd Moment, Laurie Patton checks in with members of the Midd community to talk about how they are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, Jaewon Oh—a 2013 graduate of Middlebury and a master's degree candidate at MIIS—discusses the challenges of leading a student government remotely and explains how she remains motivated will studying in relative isolation.

Dates: May 4, 2020

Alone Together episode 4: Alex Bishop, May 11, 2020

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Identifier: A7_Midd_Moment_Alone_Together_Episode_4_Alex_Bishop_20200511
Scope and Contents

Alex Bishop, a cook at Ross Dining, has worked at the College for the last ten years. Alex shares how dining at Middlebury has evolved to respond to COVID-19, what it's like to be an essential worker on the Vermont campus, and how routine is keeping him grounded.

Dates: May 11, 2020

Alone Together episode 5: Emily Barnard '20, May 18, 2020

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Identifier: A7_Midd_Moment_Alone_Together_Episode_4_Emily_Barnard_20200518
Scope and Contents

In this special season of Midd Moment, Laurie Patton checks in with members of the Midd community to talk about how they are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, Emily Barnard, a senior economics major and cocaptain of the Middlebury women's lacrosse team, shares how she's adjusting to her final season being canceled, how she's finding meaning through the alumni lacrosse community, and gratitude planks.

Dates: May 18, 2020

Alone Together episode 6: Alyssa Limperis '12, May 25, 2020

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Identifier: A7_Midd_Moment_Alone_Together_Episode_6_Alyssa_Limperis_20200525
Scope and Contents

In this episode, we hear from the actor and comedian, Alyssa Limperis '12. Alyssa talks with President Patton about why her shtick has always been "pandemic humor," what it's like to make videos in quarantine, and how joining a Middlebury improv group was her turning point. We also hear from her favorite characters: Mom and an avid Patriots fan.

Dates: May 25, 2020

Alone Together episode 7: Jodie Keith and Jacques Bergevin, Essential workers, June 1, 2020

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Identifier: A7_Midd_Moment_Alone_Together_Episode_7_Keith_Bergevin_20200601
Scope and Contents

Jodie Keith and Jacques Bergevin speak with President Patton about working with custodial services to keep our campus safe and clean. Jodie and Jacques share what campus has been like since the students left: what it's like to schedule hourly sanitation of buildings, how every day feels like an empty Saturday morning, and that the infamous Middlebury squirrels have lost a bit of weight.

Dates: June 1, 2020

Alone Together episode 8: Dick Clay, COVID-19 survivor, June 8, 2020

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Identifier: A7_Midd_Moment_Alone_Together_Episode_8_Dick_Clay_20200608
Scope and Contents

In this episode, Dick Clay, a student at the Bread Loaf School of English, shares his story of recovering from COVID-19. Dick discusses when the seriousness of the virus hit him, the "wilderness path to recovery," and how he will process this experience through writing.

Dates: June 8, 2020

Alone together episode 9: Jessica St. Clair '98 and Dan O'Brien '96, June 15, 2020

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Identifier: A7_Midd_Moment_Alone_Together_Episode_9_StClair_OBrien_20200615
Scope and Contents From Apple Podcasts description: "Dan O'Brien ’96, a playwright and poet, and Jessica St. Clair ’98, a comedian and writer join president Patton for our final check in with the community during COVID-19 self-isolation. Dan and Jessica are a true power couple in the arts that met in a Middlebury improv group. They discuss Dan's essay Life Shrinks: Lessons from Chemo Quarantine, how reopening the country feels a lot like remission, and how their art is evolving to reflect the pandemic....
Dates: June 15, 2020

Bah, Fatmata (Class of 2020), April 20, 2020 - July 7, 2020

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Identifier: A20_twilight_2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes participant agreements and approximately 30 diaries written by students and two diaries written by staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most diaries date from May, 2020 to July, 2020, but some extend through September, 2020.

Dates: April 20, 2020 - July 7, 2020

Barton, Katie (Class of 2023), November 4, 2020

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Identifier: MOH
Scope and Contents

In this oral history interview, Katie Barton, Class of 2023, discusses the presidential and senate race in North Carolina. Barton also mentions clubs on campus, including the meditation club and a pandemic theater project, that have provided support for students, as well as hopes for the spring semester during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dates: November 4, 2020

Beese, Ben (Class of 2021.5) COVID-19 campus quarantine photographs, August, 2020

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Identifier: S6_Ben_Beese_COVID_campus_quarantine_202008
Scope and Contents Photographs and video submitted to Special Collections by Ben Beese, 2021.5, at the beginning of the Fall, 2020 semester during the COVID-19 pandemic. Includes one music video featuring Residential Life (ResLife) CAs (Community Assistants) about wearing masks and social distancing. Photographs in the collection include crowds of students gathered for a Student Government Association (SGA) delivery of baked goods from Haymaker Bun Company and Otter Creek Bakery, to-go food containers provided...
Dates: August, 2020

Benjy Renton photographs

 Collection
Identifier: C-184
Scope and Contents This collection contains over 10,000 photographs taken by Benjy Renton during his time at Middlebury. Renton's photographs include on-campus events such as the Justice for Breonna Taylor protest, MiddView Orientation, scenes from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Evolution Dance Crew performances, the Winter Carnival Ice Show, the International Students' Organization (ISO) Food Festival, Winter Carnival, the Blackout Protest in support of higher wages for staff, the M...
Dates: 2018-

Bhalla, Ayesha (Class of 2020), April 24, 2020 - July 26, 2020

 Item
Identifier: A20_twilight_2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes participant agreements and approximately 30 diaries written by students and two diaries written by staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most diaries date from May, 2020 to July, 2020, but some extend through September, 2020.

Dates: April 24, 2020 - July 26, 2020

Brown, Alyssa (Class of 2020), 2020 May-July

 Item — Box 8: Series A20.II, Folder: 1
Identifier: A20
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes participant agreements and approximately 30 diaries written by students and two diaries written by staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most diaries date from May, 2020 to July, 2020, but some extend through September, 2020.

Dates: 2020 May-July

Brown, Emma (Class of 2021), 2020 April-July

 Item — Box 8: Series A20.II, Folder: 2
Identifier: A20
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes participant agreements and approximately 30 diaries written by students and two diaries written by staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most diaries date from May, 2020 to July, 2020, but some extend through September, 2020.

Dates: 2020 April-July

Buerge, Kaitlin (Class of 2013; staff), April 4, 2020 - July 1, 2020

 Item
Identifier: A20_twilight_2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes participant agreements and approximately 30 diaries written by students and two diaries written by staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most diaries date from May, 2020 to July, 2020, but some extend through September, 2020.

Dates: April 4, 2020 - July 1, 2020

Communications SmugMug photographs, 2018-

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Identifier: A7
Scope and Contents Photographs taken and used by the Office of Communications and Marketing, dating from 2018 onward. Subjects include Middlebury College students, faculty, and staff; portraits; McCullough murals; Makerspace; lectures and talks; Interfaith House; Ward Prize; Phi Beta Kappa ceremonies; Quadball (formerly Quidditch); Student symposia; campus construction; the Knoll; awards ceremonies; faculty authors receptions; student protests; campus scenes; International Students' Organization...
Dates: 2018-

COVID-19, March 2020-

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Identifier: s6_covid
Scope and Contents

Includes born-digital Web content created by Middlebury students and collected by Special Collections during the COVID-19 pandemic. Also includes photographs taken by Ben Beese, Class of 2021.5, at the beginning of the Fall 2020 semester during the pandemic.

Dates: March 2020-

COVID-19 campus visitor policy sign, 2022-04

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Identifier: A11
Scope and Contents

1 sign entitled "Campus Visitor Policy," detailing the policy for visitors to the Davis Family Library in April 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dates: 2022-04

COVID-19 hand-sewn cotton/flannel masks, 2020

 Item — Bottom Shelf, Box: 48
Identifier: real.0624
Scope and Contents

COVID-19 cotton and flannel fabric masks hand-sewn by the Middlebury College Theatre Department Costume Shop. Three fabric designs sewn in a pattern suggested by Dartmouth/Hitchcock. One cotton string ties, two elastic ear loops. The article "Behind the Masks" by Jesse Raymond '90 accompanies the masks.

Dates: 2020

COVID-19 pandemic, March, 2020 -

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Identifier: a13.I.2020
Scope and Contents Includes social media harvests from Instagram and Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic. Also includes photographs taken of signs posted by local businesses in Middlebury, Vermont during the COVID-19 pandemic. One polyester backpack distributed in September 2020 at the Virtue testing center as students arrived on campus for mandatory COVID tests. The backpack included a Middlebury t-shirt with a masked Panther, bottle of hand sanitizer, and two face masks. In January 2020,...
Dates: March; 2020 -

COVID-19 update: working safely on Campus staff training videos, February 15, 2021

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Identifier: a14_ehs_covid_training_videos
Scope and Contents

Three staff training videos created by Jen Kazmierczak of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety. Staff members were required to complete a training course on the Safe Colleges website prior to returning to work on campus for the Spring 2021 semester during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics discussed in the videos include: masks and face coverings, social distancing, events on campus, hand washing, and more.

Dates: February 15, 2021

Cuatlatl, Brandon (Class of 2023) and Damaris Neaves (Class of 2024), 2023

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Identifier: c181_Cuatlatl_Brandon_Neaves_Damaris_Vasquez-Mitra_Ambar_2023
Scope and Contents 1 .wav file containing oral history interview with Brandon Cuatlatl, Class of 2023, and Damaris Neaves, Class of 2024, conducted by Special Collections Oral History Intern, Ambar Vasquez-Mitra, Class of 2025.Introduction. (0:20); Juntos Org. Student-Migrant Solidarity Network. Local spanish speaking migrant community. COMPANEROS Program. English Language tutoring. Community Branch. External connections. Open Door Clinic. Migrant Justice. Milk With Dignity. Promoting local...
Dates: 2023

Cutting, Rajan (Class of 2020), May 6, 2020 - July 6, 2020

 Item
Identifier: A20_twilight_2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes participant agreements and approximately 30 diaries written by students and two diaries written by staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most diaries date from May, 2020 to July, 2020, but some extend through September, 2020.

Dates: May 6, 2020 - July 6, 2020

Dickinson and Her Influence / FYSE 1540, Spring 2020

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Identifier: S7_FYSE1540
Scope and Contents Six digital files containing letters written by students in Karin Gottshall's First Year Seminar to Emily Dickinson during the COVID-19 pandemic, and one file containing the text of Gottshall's email to Special Collections. The letters were written by Kate Sadoff, William Reed, Beck Barsanti, Lance Zhang, Emma Johnson, and Joe Hanlon, all of the Class of 2023.5. The assignment prompt reads: "I’d like you each to write a letter addressed to Emily Dickinson. In your letter, see if...
Dates: Spring 2020

End of semester - Fall 2020 student training videos, October 30, 2020

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Identifier: a14_hwe_end_of_semester_course_fall_2020
Scope and Contents Includes 10 videos produced by the Office of Health and Wellness Education in preparation for the end of the Fall, 2020 semester. The titles of the videos are as follows: "End of Semester Course Fall 2020," "Preparing for Transitions," "Preparing for Departure," "Travel Safety," "How to Continue Reducing Your Exposure," "Know Your Resources," "What to Expect for Remote Finals," "Tending to Social and Emotional Health," "Emergency and Illness Planning," and "Looking Back and Moving...
Dates: October 30, 2020

Episode 5: Liza Humes (Class of 2007), May 6, 2020

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Identifier: A28_Hot_Seat_Episode_5_Liza_Humes_20200507
Scope and Contents

Head Coach Kate Livesay (Class of 2003) interview Liza Humes (Class of 2007). Humes discusses her time at Middlebury College and her current position as a Physician's Assistant in neurosurgery at the University of Colorado Hospital. Humes speaks about helping on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) floor at her hospital during COVID-19.

Dates: May 6, 2020