Interpreting the Mahabharata [video]
Watch the full panel discussion.MIDDLEBURY, Vermont -- To a backdrop of exquisitely colorful illustrations, President Laurie Patton and illustrator and fine artist Abhishek Singh helped bring meaning...
View ArticleMiddlebury Announces Fiscal 2015 Endowment Results
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury’s endowment generated an investment return of 6.9 percent in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2015. The annualized return over the past 10 years is 8.7 percent. Both...
View ArticleMiddlebury to Open School in Morocco
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad will add a 17th country in the fall of 2016 when it opens a new School in Morocco. The program, approved by the Board of Trustees at their...
View ArticleMiddlebury Inducts Newest Members to Phi Beta Kappa
The Middlebury College Phi Beta Kappa chapter inducted 10 students as new members at a ceremony at Kirk Alumni Center on Saturday, Oct. 3. The ceremony and reception took place over the College’s Fall...
View ArticleCommunity Invited to Celebratory Inauguration Concert, Fireworks
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury invites the community to join the presidential inauguration celebration with a free family-friendly concert on the quad, Saturday evening, October 10, at 7 p.m. followed by...
View ArticlePresident Patton Points to Middlebury's 'Determined, Engaged Optimism' in...
Slide ShowStudent marshals Kate Hamilton '16 and Hyeon-Seok Yu '16 lead Middlebury's faculty in the academic procession.MIDDLEBURY – Middlebury opened a new chapter in its 215-year history today,...
View ArticleEnvironmental Luminaries Help Mark 50th Anniversary of ES Program
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- “You have a tremendous opportunity to make change.” That was CNN correspondent, bestselling author and founder and president of Dream Corps Van Jones’s message to students, faculty,...
View ArticlePTP/NYC Explained: Students and Professional Actors in an Off-Broadway...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- For nearly 30 summers, Middlebury students have joined their faculty mentors and professional equity actors for a taste of the professional theatre life during a five-week repertory...
View ArticleFederal Reserve Official Delivers D.K. Smith Lecture
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Julie Hotchkiss, a senior policy analyst with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, used data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to disprove headlines in the mainstream media at...
View ArticleAlumni Return to Campus for a Joyous Homecoming
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury alumni flocked to campus October 16–18 for a Homecoming weekend that will long be remembered for its peak foliage, variable weather, and conversations with the new...
View ArticleStudents Nurture Young Entrepreneurs, Storytelling with Summer Grants
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – From Tanzania to Afghanistan, from a cross-country road trip to the small towns of the American south, Middlebury students spent last summer diving into social entrepreneurship...
View ArticleNobel Peace Prize "Romanticizes" What Really Happened in Tunisia
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. –Eleven days after the National Dialogue Quartet of Tunisia received the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, a former elected representative to the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly (NCA)...
View ArticleHart, Morse explore alternative forms of historical scholarship
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Breaking the mold for traditional classroom learning, William Hart and Kathryn Morse — professors in history, and history and environmental studies, respectively — led groups of...
View ArticleBaishakhi Taylor Joins Middlebury as New Dean of Students
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Fostering inclusivity, resilience, and engagement among students — those are among the goals Dean of Students Baishakhi Taylor brings to her new position. Taylor joined the Middlebury...
View ArticleHarvard Historian To Speak on "The Rei(g)n of Marriage," November 12
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Nancy F. Cott, the Jonathan Trumbull professor of American history at Harvard University, will deliver the 2015 Charles S. Grant Memorial Lecture on Thursday, November 12, at 7:30...
View ArticleGore Vidal Is the Subject of a New Biography by Jay Parini
Jay Parini, the D.E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing, has never shied away from literary challenges — novels about Melville and Tolstoy, definitive biographies of Frost, Steinbeck, and...
View ArticleRecent Graduate Is Both Scientist and Entrepreneur
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – A Middlebury alumnus who matriculated during the heyday of the Sunday Night Group and the rise of 350.org said he was torn between two career paths after graduation.“The question was,...
View ArticlePanel at Rohatyn Center Analyzes the Refugee Crisis in Europe
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – As cold weather creeps in and the seas grow stormy, the refugee crisis at Europe’s borders is entering “a perilous and uncharted phase” – that’s according to the New York Times on...
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