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Middlebury Elects Bourque, Goldsmith to Board of Trustees
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Two new members have taken their seats on the Middlebury Board of Trustees: alumni trustee Zachary Bourque ’01 and term trustee Graham Goldsmith ’89. Both new trustees were elected to...
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Faculty Research Comes to Life for Parents and Students at Annual Forum
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The crowd filing into Axinn 232 on Friday couldn’t help noticing the two students dressed in early-19th-century garb standing off to the side. Two more students—not costumed—were...
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Employment Picture is Strong for Recent Middlebury Graduates
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Seventy percent of the graduates in the Class of 2018 have reported that they are now gainfully employed, with another 13 percent actively searching for jobs and 12 percent continuing...
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ES Faculty Panel Offers Varying Perspectives on Pollutants
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Oddly enough, the Clean Air Act was in force for decades before carbon dioxide – a primary cause of greenhouse gas – was deemed to be a pollutant. That was just one of the facts...
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Ho June (Sean) Rhee ’21 Wins Ward Prize for First-Year Writing
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – A collection of four poems titled "rice burger and banana milk" took the top spot at the 2018 Paul W. Ward ’25 Prize for excellence in first-year writing. Writing Center Director and...
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First-year Seminar Digs into Sophocles
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Thursday afternoon, Room 305, Alexander Twilight Hall. It’s a gray October day, yet light pours in through the room’s immense west-facing windows, so high they overlook the tops of...
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New Exhibit at Kirk Center Highlights Middlebury History from a Student...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury College will open a new exhibit of historical images and text at the Kirk Center on Saturday, October 20, as part of Homecoming. The exhibit, titled “The Continuity of...
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Middlebury Faculty Lecture Throughout Vermont for 1st Wednesdays Humanities...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – From Brattleboro in the south to St. Johnsbury in the north, Middlebury faculty members are giving public lectures across the State of Vermont this year in connection with the “1st...
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Brazilian Environmental Artist Brings Ice Figurine Installation to Middlebury...
Slide ShowOn October 23, 2018, Middlebury hosted the Brazilian environmental artist Néle Azevedo for an installation of her renowned work, Minimum Monument: Art as Emergency. An audience of...
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Student-Designed Habitat for Humanity Houses Move Forward
This is the second installment in ongoing coverage of this Habitat for Humanity project undertaken by Middlebury students. You can find the first part here.MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – “We are going to need that...
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Middlebury Statement on Transgender
President Laurie Patton and Chief Diversity Officer Miguel Fernández emailed the following statement to the Middlebury community on Friday, October 26.You may have heard this week that, according to...
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Students Protest Trump’s Proposed Changes to Definition of Gender
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Less than a week after a leaked memo from the Trump administration mapped out a plan to narrowly define gender under federal law, Middlebury students rallied on Proctor Terrace to...
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Students and Administration Respond to Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – As the campus community joins the rest of the country in trying to reckon with the senseless violence in a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 dead, students and administrators sent...
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Lisa Leopold Shares Her Research on Apologies, Both Good and Bad
The #MeToo movement and appearances before Congress by tech industry leaders such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have put a spotlight on public apologies. Lisa Leopold is an expert on apologies—both...
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Middlebury to Host Conference with Goal of Diversifying Higher Ed
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury College will host the fourth summit for the Creating Connections Consortium (C3), a group that promotes diversity in higher education, November 9–11. This year’s conference...
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Students Navigate the Complex Path to Medical School
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Roger Winters ’17 was backpacking the Appalachian Trail when he got the call of a lifetime.“There was a huge thunderstorm, and I was alone walking through the woods as lightning...
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MiddVote Hopes to Boost Participation in Midterm Elections
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – MiddVote, the nonpartisan student organization that works to register student voters, has had a very active fall, hosting voter registration and absentee ballot request drives...
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Law Professors Debate ‘Courts in the Age of Trump’
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Two distinguished legal scholars debated each other in a lecture titled “The Courts in the Age of Trump” with a focus on the recent confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a...
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Endowment Earnings Strong for Most Recent Fiscal Year
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Strong returns in venture capital investments and private equities and public equity markets helped generate a strong investment return of 9.7 percent for Middlebury’s endowment in...
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