The company Scholar GPS recently named Middlebury’s Dr. Andrew Haig as a “Top Scholar,” noting that his 197 scientific publications received a very high “H-rating” for their influence on other scientists and scholars, and scoring him in the top half-of-1% of all academics in the world. Dr. Haig was rated top 10 in the world in his research area of spinal stenosis — a back pain problem common in older people.