

Many of these grants have been used to either cultivate better perspectives for current subjects/courses or to create entirely new courses at Middlebury College. Throughout the years, Middlebury’s Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs (OG&SP) has helped many Middlebury faculty members develop and submit grant proposals to the M&J Whiting Foundation for a variety of complex subjects-from studying Greek food to exploring how Germany uses psychology to increase sustainability.

The awarded grants allow faculty members to study or conduct a project abroad. The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation (M&J Whiting Foundation) is a private foundation in Boston, Massachusetts that aims to enhance classroom instruction by engaging and broadening the minds of teachers from New England colleges and universities. These are just some of the questions that Middlebury College Professor Mario Higa will pose and explore in his new undergraduate seminar, “Jorge Luis Borges: Chaos and Order.” The seminar was inspired by Higa’s recent summer research on Argentina and Borges, which was funded by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation.

How does the human mind differentiate and make meaning out of these two concepts?
