Student and Community First Responders Celebrate Achievements
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Students and community members gathered at Atwater Dining Hall last week to celebrate a year of student first-responder service to the community. Sponsored by the student organization...
View ArticleEmmet Norris ’19 Receives National Award for Geology Research
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Geology major Emmet Norris ’19 has been awarded the Council on Undergraduate Research’s (CUR) GeoCUR Award for Excellence in Student Research. This year 15 students will receive the...
View ArticleCollege Honors Student Leaders at Annual Awards Ceremony
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Fourteen Middlebury College undergraduates and the members of five student organizations were honored at the 2018 Student Leadership Awards Ceremony held on May 2 in Atwater Dining...
View ArticleStudent Hopes to Represent Afghanistan at 2020 Olympics
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Farid Noori ’18.5 first grasped the power of sports to inspire a nation when he was a 14-year-old in Kabul, Afghanistan.“The war destroyed everything. So in 2008, we didn’t even have...
View ArticleMiddlebury Sees Record Number of Students Accept Admission
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – A total of 765 students have accepted Middlebury’s offer of admission and will enroll at the College as members of the Class of 2022. As of May 1, the deadline for admitted students...
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 ArticleProfessor, Students Identify Genes Implicated in a Complex Trait
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Joshua Yuan, a Middlebury College senior from Portland, Oregon, is the lead author on a new paper that is shedding light on the genetic mapping of complex traits in mammals. The paper...
View ArticleBread Loaf Conferences for Translators and Environmental Writers Offer...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Middlebury Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference and Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will each offer free lectures and readings to the public when they are in session...
View ArticleBoard Approves Tenure for Eight Faculty Members
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Middlebury College Board of Trustees at its spring meeting approved tenure recommendations for eight faculty members. This spring’s newly tenured group includes Tara Affolter...
View ArticleClass of 2018 Celebrates Commencement
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Middlebury College Class of 2018 gave a standing ovation to author Isabel Wilkerson for her stirring Commencement address on May 27, 2018, calling for radical empathy “in the...
View ArticleMiddlebury Celebrates Sesquicentennial Phi Beta Kappa Induction
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – In a Commencement Weekend ceremony at Robison Concert Hall, 51 Middlebury College students participated in the 150th Middlebury Phi Beta Kappa induction. Phi Beta Kappa is the...
View ArticleStudent Voices on Commencement Day
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – On Commencement morning, just before 9 a.m., families and friends eager for a good view of the stage began to file into the rows of folding chairs lined up on Middlebury’s main quad....
View ArticleVideo: Senior’s Film Explores Pros and Cons of Safe Injection Sites
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – A new film by recent graduate Nate Wiener ’18 tackles the distinctly uncomfortable issue of safe injection sites as a way to mitigate the risks of overdose in Vermont’s opiate crisis....
View ArticleStudents Bring Wide Variety of Experience to Middlebury Language Schools as...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — June marks the beginning of the Middlebury Language Schools, known internationally for their full immersion approach to language teaching. This summer the School of Hebrew–one of a...
View ArticleAn Insider’s Tour of the Mahaney Center
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Capping off a year of celebration for the 25th anniversary of the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury has released a new short video tour of the center that gives viewers a taste...
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