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Students Appreciate College Charter on Founder's Day
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – On the 215th anniversary of the College’s founding, the Special Collections staff in Davis Family Library placed Middlebury’s original, hand-written charter on display for all to...
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A Yurt of One’s Own
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Milo Stanley ’17.5 was daydreaming of a room of his own — and a dorm room wasn’t going to cut it. The lanky junior Feb jokes that he grew up “mostly alone in the woods of Maine,” a...
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Sociologist Speaks to the Issue of 'Black Lives Matter'
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – In the wake of President Barack Obama’s election in 2008, Michael Jeffries found himself swept up in the optimism washing over the country. The Wellesley College associate professor...
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Editor Extols the Virtues of Good Reporting
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – “A disappearing art” is how Ryan D’Agostino characterized reporting, the skill he’s made his life’s work as a writer and now editor at some of the country’s best magazines.The 1997...
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Athletics Hall of Fame Inducts 10 New Members
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Middlebury Athletics Hall of Fame, now in its second year of existence, inducted 10 former student-athletes and coaches into its ranks at a gala ceremony held on November 7 in...
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Math Professors Blog about Active Learning
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – A Middlebury College mathematics professor is co-editing a math education blog that has just posted a six-part series on the topic of active learning in mathematics.Priscilla Bremser,...
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Update on Students Studying at Middlebury School in France
November 14, 2015The following message was sent in an all-campus email from Jeff Cason, dean of international programs, and Katy Smith Abbott, vice president for student affairs and dean of the...
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Film and Lecture: The Imitation Game and Alan Turing
MIDDLEBURY – What’s fact and what’s fiction in the recent Oscar-winning film The Imitation Game about Alan Turing and the effort to crack German codes in World War II? Why was the real Turing an even...
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Dance and the Digital Liberal Arts: Website Presents New Model for Movement...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Middlebury College Professor of Dance Andea Olsen’s work has long been rooted in physical space; deeply interested in the connection between the body and earth, the dancer and...
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Faculty Put ISIS Attacks in Context [video]
Watch the full panel discussion.MIDDLEBURY, Vt – Professor Erik Bleich was in France on sabbatical when terrorists struck the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris last January. A scholar of race and...
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Nancy Cott Delivers the Annual Grant Lecture in American History
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Harvard historian Nancy F. Cott said the Founding Fathers’ views on citizenship and marriage laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges– the...
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Middlebury Signs White House Climate Pledge
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Joining more than 200 colleges and universities across the country, Middlebury signed the American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge, an effort announced by the White House as part of...
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Faculty Voice: The Countries that Gave me a Second Chance as a Refugee
The following piece by Professor Michael Kraus was published on the web site Open Society Foundations on November 23, 2015.By Michael KrausThe horrific attacks in Paris occurred in the midst of...
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Three Perspectives on Paris
Erik Bleich, professor of political science, studies race and ethnicity in Western Europe and was living in Lyon, France during the Charlie Hebdo attacks. He interviewed numerous French Muslims...
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The Politics of Values in Today's Europe
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The conference room at Robert A. Jones ’59 House was filled to near capacity on November 20 to hear political scientist Erik Bleich’s lecture on “Ethnic Diversity and the Politics of...
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On ‘Discover the Brain’ Day Students Offer an Introduction to Neuroscience
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Biology, chemistry, physics — all are run-of-the-mill classes for most high school students. Neuroscience, on the other hand?“High schools don’t offer much in the way of...
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Two Leading Universities Join C3’s Effort to Diversify Higher Education
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Two of the nation’s top research universities — the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago — have joined C3, a consortium aimed at promoting diversity and full...
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Quoted: This is How Middlebury College Responded After the Paris Terror Attacks
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- The November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris posed an immediate challenge for Middlebury. With 50 students enrolled in the College's School in France, headquartered in Paris, the staff...
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