While students go home for the summer armed with their summer reading requirements, and the entire Middlesex community will complete the All-School Read, The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities, by Will Allen, members of the Middlesex faculty have their own personal summer reading lists that are as interesting and diverse as our faculty themselves. Fiction The Narrow…
Seniors in the Psychology elective presented their research at the third annual Psychology Poster Session this week. By examining psychological theories and research, reading case studies, and observing their own experiences over the course of the semester, students explored who they are and how they relate to the world around them. In their final assessment for the term, students presented…
The Middlesex Forensics class, MX:CSI, was very fortunate to be visited by two distinguished local law enforcement professionals recently. Twice-decorated (FBI Latent Fingerprint Hit of the Year) State Trooper Christopher Dolan lectured the class on crime scene processing and fingerprint dusting and analysis. Massachusetts Prosecutor of the Year and cold case specialist Attorney Laurel Brandt gave her perspective on correct…
Congratulations to the Middlesex Varsity and JV Physics teams for representing the school well in our annual Physics Bowl competition. The test was particularly challenging this year, with a national average score of just 14/40 for first year students and 13/40 on a harder test for advanced students. Over 7500 students took the test at more than 500 schools across…
Ned Herter ’73 first came to Middlesex as a student in 1969; after graduating in 1973, Ned earned a B.A. in math and classics at Bowdoin College, returning to Middlesex in 1979 to teach math. In the years since, Ned has served at various times as a head of house, head football coach, and dean of students. Still assisting with…
Science teacher Sara Kate May has taught at Middlesex for 10 years, having worked as a physics teacher at Riverdale Country School in the Bronx. A magna cum laude graduate of Williams College, Ms. May earned a B.A. in astrophysics and holds a M.A. in physics from City College. In addition to teaching physics and astronomy at all levels at…
After each semester at Middlesex, we gather to celebrate the academic achievements of our students at the Academic Awards Assembly. At this week’s assembly, we acknowledged work done in the 2014 fall semester. For a full list of students receiving honors, please click here. To open the assembly, history teacher Dr. Munro discussed the philosophies of two educators: Frederick…
In 2013, Concord, Massachusetts (home of Middlesex School) became one of the first communities in the nation to ban the sale of single-serve plastic water bottles. Campaigns against plastic water bottles argue that bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year (see www.banthebottle.net). Proponents of bottled water bans…
Born in England and raised in Sweden, Ashok Pillai was educated at Canadian Academy in Kobe, Japan. Following graduation, he earned a B.A. in computer science with honors in mathematics at Williams College, where he was elected to Sigma Xi. He joined the Middlesex faculty in 2007. You have a very interesting background. How do you think these experiences have…
Born and raised in Taiwan, where her Beijing-born father and Shanghai-born mother moved after the Chinese Civil War, Annie Ku came to the United States in 1986. She began teaching in 1989, first at Philips Andover, then Concord Academy, and finally Concord-Carlisle High School before arriving at Middlesex in 2000. Her daughter Frances ’07 and her son Yih-Jen ’12 both…