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New England Review Celebrates its 40th Anniversary Year
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – New England Review (NER) turns forty in this year, and the first issue of the anniversary volume presents fourteen poets—among them Alison Hawthorne Deming, Marilyn Hacker, Terrance...
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Three Middlebury Students Earn Watson Fellowships
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Three Middlebury College students have been named Thomas J. Watson Fellows and will embark on a year of travel study after graduation. The Watson Foundation recently announced its...
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Student Earns Outstanding Research Award from American Camp Association
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Joey LaLiberte, a senior from Needham, Massachusetts, received the Marge Scanlin Outstanding Student Research Award from the American Camp Association at its recent national...
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Students Design Affordable Housing for Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY, VT. – Architecture students from Middlebury College are partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Addison County to design a residence that will be constructed for two families in the town of...
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Roman Kent, Chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors,...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – In the week leading up to Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12—Middlebury College will welcome Roman Kent to campus. In a conversation with his son Jeffrey, Mr. Kent will...
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Faculty Collaborate on Canadian Premiere of Opera ‘Lotus Lives’
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – On a late afternoon at Robison Concert Hall, Professor Claudio Medeiros stands at center stage, demonstrating a way of gesturing to Stéphanie Pothier, a mezzo soprano with Opéra de...
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Middlebury Offers Admission to 1,297 to the Class of 2022
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury College has offered admission to 1,297 students who applied as regular decision candidates for the Class of 2022. They join the 399 accepted through Middlebury’s early...
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Rebecca Tiger Finds Teaching Prison Inmates Comes with Rewards, Surprises
Associate Professor of Sociology Rebecca Tiger taught a course, Sociological Imagination, during January term this year to 16 male inmates at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility in...
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Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Discuss their PBS Series ‘The Vietnam War’
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Emmy Award–winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick decided more than a decade ago to make the 2017 PBS documentary The Vietnam War because “it was unfinished business, a...
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Large Mural Coming to McCullough Student Center
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – On April 8, four professional mural artists and a group of Middlebury College students will embark on a weeklong project to bring a large-scale mural to McCullough Student Center. The...
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Choir Will Tour Baltic States This Spring
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Middlebury College Choir will tour the Baltic states later this spring for a concert tour of several venues. Under the direction of Jeffrey Buettner, associate professor of music,...
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Civil Rights Leader Diane Nash Speaks at Mead Chapel
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – When Diane Nash moved to Tennessee as a college student in the late 1950s, the Chicago native encountered segregation as she’d never experienced it before. She bristled at signs that...
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Richard Sander Speaks on the Challenges of Discussing Affirmative Action
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Colleges and universities should be more transparent with admissions and student outcomes data to permit researchers to better understand the value and impact of preferences used in...
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Students Harness the Power of Light in Biomedical Optics Lab
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Hang out in one of Michael Durst’s physics classes for a little while and you’ll hear two key phrases: “Now you get to use all the math you’ve ever known” and “That’s a great...
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Student Research Journal Celebrates 2018 Edition
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Students engaging with major global challenges was the focus of a special event at Atwater Dining Hall on Tuesday evening when the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs released the 2018...
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Laurie Essig Asks: Why are fewer and fewer Americans getting nose jobs?
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – In a story Laurie Essig wrote for The Conversation, “Why are fewer and fewer Americans fixing their noses?,” the associate professor of sociology notes that she was recently surprised...
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Street Artists Discuss the Power of Art to Build Community
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Five street artists hailing from cities located between Vermont and Mexico came together on April 10 at the McCullough Student Center for a conversation about how murals can build...
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Faculty and Staff Authors of Books Recognized at Reception
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury College honored 24 faculty and staff authors of new books at a reception in the Special Collections Room of the Davis Family Library on April 12.With all of the books...
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Film Professor’s Series Nominated for Peabody Award
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Peabody Award Board of Jurors has nominated the political thriller Bala Loca, created by Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture David Miranda Hardy, for a 2018 Peabody...
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Middlebury Joins Initiative with Aim to Educate More High-achieving Low- and...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury College has joined the American Talent Initiative (ATI) and its partner colleges and universities that share a goal of enrolling a total of 50,000 additional talented, low-...
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