Feb Celebration Honors Class of 2016.5
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. –In one of Middlebury’s most spirited annual events, 117 seniors celebrated the completion of their undergraduate careers on February 3-4. The weekend honored the achievements of a...
View ArticlePresident’s House Wins Award for Energy Efficiency
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Middlebury College president’s house at 3 South Street has won Efficiency Vermont’s top award for a major renovation of a commercial building. Efficiency Vermont, an energy...
View ArticleClass of 2020.5 Arrives on Campus
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – On Wednesday, February 8, as much of the campus was taking a post-winter term breather, 99 new students arrived in Middlebury, excited to begin their college careers.The new cohort of...
View ArticleMiddlebury's 94th Winter Carnival, February 16-19
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – With more than a foot of freshly-fallen snow on the ground and favorable weather in the forecast, Middlebury’s 94nd annual Winter Carnival, February 16-19, promises to be a weekend...
View ArticleStudent-Designed Rover Could Improve Safety for Facilities Staff [video]
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – With its Xbox controller and dune buggy wheels, the new RIVIR vehicle could easily be mistaken for a toy rather than the result of weeks of mental and physical laboring by a team of...
View ArticleNew ‘President’s Course’ Will Focus on Water
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – A new course that will connect classrooms in Middlebury and Monterey begins this week with the launch of “Water In An Insecure World: Symbol, Resource, or Commodity?” Each week of the...
View ArticleStudents Travel to Atlanta to Experience the Struggles of Refugee Resettlement
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The harsh reality of refugee resettlement became apparent to the 12 Middlebury students who volunteered to work side-by-side with refugee families in Atlanta during the week between...
View ArticleMiddlebury a Top Producer of Fulbright Students and Scholars
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury College has been noted as a top producer of Fulbright students and scholars for the 2016-17 academic year – one of just 16 U.S. bachelor’s institutions to appear on both...
View ArticleVisiting PBK Scholar to Discuss Artificial Intelligence Design and Impacts
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – For centuries, people have imagined smart machines inhabiting the earth in fictional stories. As these “intelligent” machines cross over from the realm of fiction into reality, the...
View ArticleMellon Choreographer-in-Residence Invites Movement Across the Curriculum
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – On a cold January afternoon in the Middlebury College dance theater, students stepped onto the dance floor in stocking feet.These weren’t veterans of the dance program — rather, they...
View ArticleArchaeologist Will Lecture on the "Parthenon Enigma," March 2
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Joan Connelly – archaeologist, art historian, author, and recipient of a 1996 MacArthur “genius grant” – will offer her interpretation of the famed Parthenon frieze in an illustrated...
View ArticleCollege Celebrates Articles and Creative Works
The 2017 Faculty and staff articles and creative works reception at Bicentennial Hall featured the work of 62 faculty and staff members and 27 student co-authors. MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury...
View ArticleUpdates from the Board of Trustees
The Middlebury Board of Trustees held its winter meeting January 27–28 at the campus of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. It was the board’s first regular...
View ArticlePilot Project: Students Go to L.A. to Explore Careers in Entertainment Industry
MIDDLEBURY – Alumni in the entertainment industry opened doors for a group of Middlebury undergraduates who traveled to Los Angeles during the February break to explore career opportunities and observe...
View ArticleNonproliferation Experts Parse North Korea's Nuclear Program
MIDDLEBURY – Two of the most widely recognized experts about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, Jeffrey Lewis and Melissa Hanham from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey,...
View ArticleVideo Recording of Charles Murray and Prof. Allison Stanger
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – On March 2, 2017, Charles Murray attempted to give a talk, which was to have been followed by a question and answer session, in Wilson Hall on the Middlebury College campus. When...
View ArticleMarch 6 Statement from President Laurie Patton
Middlebury President Laurie L. Patton sent the following statement in an all-campus email on Monday, March 6, 2017.Dear Middlebury Community Members,This is the first of what is likely to be a series...
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