The Other Side of the Ice
Former Team USA figure skater Ting Cui ’25.5 reflects on going to the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics not as a competitor, but as a member of the NBC Sports crew.
Stories
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Hockey and Service
Throughout the fall, the men’s hockey team has been helping the Charter House Coalition, which provides shelter and meals to people struggling with homelessness in Addison County.
A Mayor’s Wordsmith
The Guardian profiled Julian Gerson ’18, the speechwriter for New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, and how Gerson constructed the victory speech on election night.
Support for Determined Learners
In 2023, Taniya Noori ’25.5 founded a remote tutoring service to support Afghan women and girls who are now banned from schools under Taliban rule.
Century-Old Farm Stories
After she was given two farmers’ early 20th-century diaries, Kathryn Youngdahl-Stauss, MA ’15, MLitt ’23, decided to make a film about the mother-son pair.
Reproductive Rights in Vermont
Several Middlebury faculty members are behind and in front of the camera in the documentary Unintended, which explores Vermont’s historic move to enshrine reproductive rights in its constitution in 2022.
Nuclear Possibilities
The film House of Dynamite depicts what happens when U.S. leaders have 30 minutes to respond to a nuclear attack.
Lessons of Cancer and Flame
In a New York Times essay, Dan O’Brien ’96 draws parallels between the health fallout of the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and of the Palisades fire in Los Angeles.
Visionary New Yorker
Rana Abdelhamid ’15 has won a David Prize as the founder of an anti-violence organization and community center in Queens, New York.