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Sights and Sounds

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Panther Profile: John Halverson '29

Hockey player John Halverson ‘29 spent the first six years of his life shuffling in and out of hospitals. Which is to say—he’s come a long way to be skating on and off the ice in Kenyon Arena.

Produced by George Madison ‘27

News and Announcements

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Essays and Commentary

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Undamming Hope

Dam removals offer an opportunity for ecological reconnection. And a wild education.
By Tara Lohan ‘99
Illustration by Sally Deng

Common Sense

In a world riven with division and disconnection, a Vermont poet and farmer searches for the ties that bind.
By Lucas Farrell’ 03

The Student Mind

Citing experiences in two of his courses, an associate professor of writing and rhetoric counters public sentiment that today’s college students are not taking the time to contemplate—and are writing less and less. 
By Hector Vila

Vignettes and Portraits

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Meet the New Faculty, Fall 2026

Middlebury College welcomed an impressive group of new faculty members for the 2026–27 academic year, bringing expertise across a broad range of disciplines, including sociology, geology, mathematics and statistics, English, psychology, music, and political science. Meet a few of them below.

Self portrait of photographer Emily White

Wilson Hall

Clifford Symposium: The Preconditions of Inquiry

Can the liberal arts still teach us how to disagree well? The conversation begins here.

 


 

Adirondack Circle

Mushroom Walk

Want to find mushrooms in the wild? Go for a walk? Hang out with cool people? Test your identification skills? Then come join MiddMyco on a mushroom walk. Feel free to come regardless of previous knowledge, whether you’re a mycophile or have never heard of mushrooms.