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A Year in the Makerspace

In the 2025-26 academic year, students working in Middlebury’s Makerspace designed and produced more than a dozen projects.

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Sights and Sounds

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Remembering Women's Ice Hockey Coach Emily McNamara '07

The true legacy of a coach isn’t recorded in wins or losses—it lives on in the lives they touched along the way.

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.

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Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Weekly Politics Luncheon

Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm EST. in person and by zoom. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. To register for the zoom sessions, please contact Prof. Dickinson at his email: dickinso@middlebury.edu

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Film Screening - Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America

Vanish is described as a “eulogy for a rural way of life that is disappearing, but it also serves a clarion call for all of us to preserve what’s left and what matters.” The screening will be followed by a Q&A and a reception with photographer and producer, Jim Westphalen.