Students Spend Winter Break on Silicon Valley ‘Tech Trek’
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – After a weeklong “Tech Trek” to Silicon Valley, 10 Middlebury undergraduates returned to campus for the start of spring semester with a better understanding of what it takes to land a...
View ArticleIsabel Wilkerson to Give Middlebury College Commencement Address
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Isabel Wilkerson, author of the bestselling The Warmth of Other Suns and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will deliver the 2018 Middlebury College Commencement address on Sunday,...
View ArticlePanel Offers Multiple Perspectives on Building a ‘Robust Public Sphere’
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – What does a robust public sphere look like? Why is important? How do we build one?Those were the questions on the minds of three public intellectuals who convened at Middlebury...
View ArticleJoe Flaherty ’15, Former Editor of the Middlebury Campus, Wins Polk Award
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Joe Flaherty ’15, a former editor in chief of the Middlebury Campus, and his colleague Antonia Noori Farzan at the Phoenix New Times have won a Polk Award for immigration coverage....
View ArticleVideo: Cameron McKinney ’14 Returns to Middlebury Classrooms with his Dance...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – “There’s something that’s actually really incredible about creating movement in your own body and then allowing that movement to live in someone else’s” says dancer and choreographer...
View ArticleStudents Study Social Justice and Intercultural Communication on MAlt Trips
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The 63 students who participated in the February alternative break program shared their experiences – from repairing a roof in Appalachia to protecting sea turtles in Costa Rica – at...
View ArticleStudents Design a ‘Relic Chair’ to Preserve Objects and Ideas
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – When is a chair just a chair? And when does it become the emblem of a nation?What objects do we keep—to cherish, to commemorate, to help us remember?How does the experience of making...
View ArticleMiddlebury Honors Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Creative Works
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury College recognized the scholarship and creative works of 70 faculty and staff members, representing 150 distinct works, in a reception at Tormondsen Great Hall in...
View ArticleRohatyn Center Presents Sixth Annual International and Interdisciplinary...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury’s Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs will present its sixth annual international and interdisciplinary conference from March 8-10. Scholars from more than a dozen colleges...
View ArticleCollege Chaplain Laurie Jordan '79 Announces Plan to Step Down
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – After 22 years of service as the College chaplain, Laurel Macaulay Jordan ’79 will retire on June 30, 2018. A religious mentor and spiritual guide, Jordan –known to everyone on campus...
View ArticlePhoto Album: Winter Carnival 2018
Slide ShowCaroline Bartlett ’18 won the giant slalom at Middlebury's Winter Carnival races. Middlebury finished third overall in alpine skiing.MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury College celebrated its 95th...
View ArticlePublic Speaking Meets Phys Ed
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – On a recent Tuesday evening at 5:30 p.m. at Middlebury’s Virtue Field House, 11 students are in an open room overlooking the indoor track. Senior Emma Bliska approaches a screen and...
View ArticleStudent Skipper Sells His Salmon to Dining Services
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – When this year’s February graduates sat down to grilled sockeye salmon, caramelized with a maple mustard glaze, many were surprised to learn that the delicacy on their plates was...
View ArticleFilmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to Speak at Wilson Hall March 21
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Documentary film directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick will speak at Middlebury College on Wednesday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Wilson Hall at McCullough Student Center. Burns and...
View ArticleScholars Examine Significance of 1968 at Annual Rohatyn Conference
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Of all the turbulent years and events that made up the 1960s, one year in particular—1968—stands out for its dizzying degree of social and cultural upheaval. The events of that year...
View ArticleTraditional Korean Music Ensemble to Perform at Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – An ensemble of traditional Korean musicians will perform at Robison Hall at the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Wednesday, March 21, at 4:30 p.m. Chunhogarang, which consists of six...
View ArticleMiddlebury Welcomes New Associate Chaplain and Muslim Advisor
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life has announced that Saifa Hussain has been appointed associate chaplain and Muslim advisor at Middlebury. who starts March 19, will...
View ArticleHundreds of Middlebury Students Join High Schoolers for National ‘Walkout’
Hundreds of Middlebury students, faculty, and staff joined high schoolers and community members at the Cross Street Bridge on March 14 for the #Enough National School Walkout. Photo: Robert...
View ArticleBOLD Scholars Offer Mentoring and Friendship to Rising Generation of Afghan...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – For Middlebury junior M. J. Pascual, it was the embarassing moments that built a bond of trust in mentoring a group of high school girls from Afghanistan.“We went on a hike together,...
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