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College Honors Student Leaders

Dean of the College presents 27 honors for leadership and public service to students and organizations.

Ultimate Frisbee National Champs

Underdog men's frisbee team rolls over competition to beat top-seeded Puget Sound in championship game.

Things That Happened, Things To Do
College Readies for Commencement Weekend

Middlebury celebrates Commencement on May 26. Click here for details.

François Clemmons Farewell Concert
Middlebury Trustee News

At their February meeting, the Middlebury Board of Trustees set the 2013-2014 comprehensive fee, and listened to student views on divestment.

Panther Men Win Slalom Title
Vote for Middlebury!

Middlebury is a finalist for Second Nature's Climate Leadership Award. Your vote for Middlebury's video could make the difference!

Spring Student Symposium April 18-19

Actress Cassidy Freeman '05 gave the keynote talk at the annual spring symposium.

Student Panel on Divestment April 28

The event is the second in a series of discussions devoted to the college's endowment management.

Provocative Drama “The Castle” May 2–4
Fracking: A Tale of Two Countries
Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble May 4

Middlebury’s big band will play jazz and classic swing.

College Supports Transportation Center

The College has awarded Addison County Transit Resources a $100,000 grant to help with construction of ACTR's new Community Transportation Center,

Harvard's Eric Nelson to Give Talk May 2
The Biblical Argument Against Kings

For the 2013 Fulton Lecture, Harvard University professor of government Eric Nelson explored the origins of America’s turn to republican government.

Students Earn National Fellowships
The Enigma of Alan Turing

In a Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture, Prof. Michael Olinick discussed the life and work of the brilliant and mistreated World War II code cracker.

TEDxMiddlebury Talks
Scenes from the Symposium
From Arias to Showtunes May 11

Student vocalists offer a taste of opera and Broadway.

Brainpower in Action

More than 350 students shared the culmination of their research at the Spring Student Symposium.

Kathryn W. Davis, 1907-2013

Middlebury remembers the international philanthropist, whose legacy includes the Davis Projects for Peace.

Admitted Students Experience Campus Life
Rajeev Taranath To Perform May 6
Symposium on Feminism in a Global Context

The Gensler Symposium, titled "Body Parts," features speakers and events through April 12.

Undressing Cinderella April 10-13
Jewish Studies Symposium

A symposium celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies will take place Sunday, April 14.

Academe: Science on the Brain
Middlebury Bach Festival

The third annual Bach Festival April 26-28 features guest conductor Martin Pearlman of Boston Baroque.

Taking the Pulse of Vermont

Two Middlebury students traveled the length of Vermont's Route 100 and talked with people from all walks of life. Their reports aired recently on Vermont Public Radio.

Welcoming the Carbon-Neutral Class

How to get the Class of 2016 fired up about the College's goal to be carbon-neutral by the time they graduate? Cue the carbon-shredding sharks!

Center for the Arts Celebrates 20th
Making Change

The first recipients of grants from the Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship told a campus audience what they'd accomplished over the summer.

What's Happening at Old Stone Mill?

At the Old Stone Mill's fall showcase, we found a hub of student-driven activity, where crickets are a nutritional snack and origami makes great jewelry.

The Chemistry of Biodiesel
Monterey Graduates Urged to Keep Learning
Carolyn Kuebler Named Editor of New England Review
Colleges Will Work Together To Control Costs

Middlebury, St. Michael's and Champlain College will form a consortium to reduce costs associated with purchasing supplies and services.

Rikert Nordic Center Launches Snowmaking
Where Is Literary Criticism Headed?

New York Times book critic Dwight Garner '88 talked about the future of criticism, and the future of books, in this year's Robert W. van de Velde Jr. '75 Memorial Lecture.

Panther Skier Top College Racer at Nationals
Center for Blue Economy Celebrates

The Center for the Blue Economy at the Monterey Institute marked its first birthday, and a year of progress, at an event April 12 in Monterey, Calif.

Perkins Award Winner Announced

Reproductive biologist Prof. Catherine Combelles won the 2013 Perkins Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Acclaimed Organist to Perform March 21

In celebration of Bach's birthday, organist Nathan Laube will perform at Mead Chapel.

Cellist, Piano Quartet to Play April 6

Cellist Sophie Shao returns to Middlebury with a piano quartet Saturday April 6, featuring a program of Beethoven, Mahler, and Brahms.

Concert Features Violin, Viola, Electronics
Construction Kick-Off

Watch video highlights from the Solar Decathlon team's spring construction kick-off.

Hope and (Climate) Change

Middlebury environmental policy expert Chris Klyza weighed in on the Obama administration's record.

Small Paintings Tell Big Story
Head of the Class

Middlebury has offered 1,750 students admission to the Class of 2017.

Commencement Speaker: Jonathan Safran Foer
Eight Minutes, $3,000

Students brought their brightest ideas to the 2013 MiddChallenge, hoping to land one of six start-up grants.

Winner of Beucher Solo Competition to Perform
INSPIRIT Dance Company to Perform March 15-16
The Politics of Freshwater, March 14-16

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs hosts an international conference titled "The Politics of Freshwater: Access and Identity in a Changing Environment." All talks will be live streamed.

Ambassador Dennis Ross to Speak at Middlebury
Escher String Quartet to Perform March 8

For their Middlebury debut, these rising stars in chamber music present a free concert, featuring Beethoven, Britten, and Mendelssohn.

TEDx Middlebury Coming March 9

This year's event at the Mahaney Center for the Arts features 12 presenters with the theme, "The Road Not Taken."

Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya

Mountaineer & filmmaker David Breashears and Orville Schell of the Asia Society will give a talk in Dana Auditorium on Thursday, March 7.

Drawing On the Wall
Student Symposium Deadline is March 5

The 2013 Spring Student Symposium is coming! More information, including videos and application forms here.

Race & Ethnicity Symposium 2/28-3/1

MacArthur Fellow and author Dinaw Mengestu will give the keynote at the 3-day symposium, "No Place Like Home? Imagining Race, Ethnicity, and Migration."

Nature Conservancy President & CEO to Speak
How Students Learn

Faculty members offered insight into how students learn during an open conversation on the future of the liberal arts.

Burtynsky Exhibition Opens at Museum
Mining Black Gold

Maintaining Middlebury College's extensive composting operation is not for the faint of heart.

New Option for Study at Oxford

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, based at Oxford's Keble College, offers fall and spring semester programs for undergraduates.

Think Globally, Heat Locally

The biomass plant will help the College achieve carbon neutrality.

What's Next for Your Computer?

Middlebury College owns about 3,000 computers, and we wondered where they go when their days are done.

Tales from the Crypt

Visit a campus landmark, Middlebury's West Cemetery, with History Professor Jim Ralph '82 as your guide.

In a League of Her Own

Bread Loaf alumna Martha Ackmann writes about baseball player Toni Stone, the first woman to play professionally in the Negro League.

Tree Tour

Middlebury has recently been designated a 'Tree Campus' by the Arbor Day Foundation. Take a tour and meet a few of the reasons.

What's the Story?

What's up with those little orange decals you're seeing around the Middlebury campus? They're part of Murmur, a place-based storytelling project that's now on the Web.

Middlebury Joins 'Green Challenge'
Ars Brevis

On October 31, Patrick Dougherty's 2007 temporary installation, So Inclined, ended a four-year run in front of the Mahaney Center for the Arts.

Small House, Big Reach

Middlebury celebrates the accomplishments of the Solar Decathlon team in the 2011 competition, and the addition to the campus of their award-winning house, Self-Reliance.

Exam-Week Essentials

We caught up with a few students in Bicentennial Hall and The Grille and asked them to tell us one thing they had to remember as finals week wound down.

Middlebury's Survivor
A Voice Heard 'Round the World

Junior Abigail Borah spoke out on behalf of young activists at the UN climate talks last month in South Africa. Now back on campus, she talks about why.

The Job Market for Midd Grads

We talk with two experts from Career Services, part of Middlebury's Center for Education in Action, about employment prospects for recent graduates.

What's So Special About Being a Feb?

During the ski-down celebration at the Snow Bowl on February 4, we asked students to tell us one thing special about being a Feb. Here's what they had to say.

OMG! Midd Alum Captivates Chinese Audience

Jessica Beinecke, alum of the summer Language School and the School in China, uses her social media and language skills to reach out for Voice of America.

Tractor of the Future?

In one winter term class students converted a farm tractor to run on hydrogen.

Parks and Rec

Addison DiSesa '12 spent a summer testing out a career path in public service, interning as assistant to Adrian Benepe '78, New York City's parks commissioner.

Trivial Matters

Thursday night at 9 is trivia time in McCullough, featuring music, food, and competition, often fierce, among teams of students. We sent a former champ to capture the action.

The Avocado Windfall

What do you do when 10,000 pounds of avocados arrive at your door? Ask the chefs in Middlebury's Dining Services.

Missy Foote Named to Lacrosse Hall of Fame

Missy Foote, who just completed her 31st season as head women's coach with a trip to the final four, has been named to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

Commencement 2012

CEO, community leader, and visionary Bill Strickland tells graduates to think creatively about big challenges. See the story, photos, and videos, and read the speeches.

MIIS Nonproliferation Students Profiled

'Next Gen Nonproliferation,' a story in the Carnegie Foundation's flagship publication, portrays Monterey Institute students as future leaders in the global effort to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

Advice from the Class of 2012
Midd Alum Takes Fourth in Olympic Triathlon
Midd Grad Bikes at London Olympics
Bread Loaf School of English Commencement

2012 commencement exercises took place on the mountain at Bread Loaf and at three other campuses.