Middlebury College senior Thomas Hand is working on an energy efficiency program in his hometown of Manchester, Vt., that was mentioned on Sept. 19 in the Boston Globe in the "New England in Brief" column. According to Thomas Hand, the program was developed at Green Mountain College and refined in Middlebury's Environmental Studies Class 211 in the fall of 2004. He says the main goal is to get 40,000 energy efficient light bulbs into Manchester homes -- the largest such campaign to date in Vermont and maybe even the country.
The article "The Rise and Fall of Pop Culture" appeared in the Oct. 11 issue of the Boston Globe and quotes Jason Mittell, assistant professor of American civilization and film and media culture and author of ''Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture." Click here for the full story.
Boston Globe: Aug. 20, "Case of the hovering parents:" Associate Professor of Psychology Barbara Hofer is quoted regarding her current research on the involvement of parents in the lives of their children while their children are at college: Click here for text.
Aug. 18, "What's pink and green and worn all over?:" Emily Donnan '05 is quoted in this article about preppy fashion.
The hologram of President Emeritus and College Professor John McCardell was the subject of an item in the Boston Globe column "Campus Insider" on June 5. A photo of the hologram and the artist John Perry accompanied the item in the Globe, which quotes Director of the Museum of Art Richard Saunders. See the text here.
In the July 21 edition of the Boston Globe, on page one of the City & Region section, an article titled "Teaching global understanding" describes Shelby Davis' effort to increase the number of international students at American colleges and the United World College Scholars Program. Middlebury is mentioned several times--as one of the first participating schools in the program, as the new headquarters of the program, and in conjunction with a quote by Allison Stanger. The text of the article is available at Boston.com.
The May 15 edition of the Boston Globe included an article in the Education section, titled "To get in, students must stand out--without overdoing it," which quoted Kathy Lindsay of admissions. The story stated, "At Middlebury College, an applicant from a tropical climate included with his application a coconut with a poem explaining why the school should accept him." Kathy was quoted as saying, "We don't want students to use gimmicks ... Our whole economy has become Madison Avenue market driven....Don't send a coconut -- it hardly every works." In the same section, incoming first-year student Tory Hayes is featured in an article titled "'Dear Parents.'"