Middlebury plans to make data science a fundamental part of a liberal arts education. A new initiative, midd.data, will ensure all students understand and can use data and digital tools and techniques to create knowledge, regardless of their majors.
Jay Parini sits for an interview to discuss his years of teaching and writing while at Middlebury College.
The Vermont Statehouse recently unveiled a portrait of Alexander Twilight, Class of 1823, the first person of African descent to serve in a state legislature and to graduate from a U.S. college.
The Middlebury College Museum of Art is doing the best job in the country “after the Met, the National Gallery and RISD Museum” in the repatriation of Benin art to West Africa, reports the Washington Post.
Jody Smith and Joseph Watson found four poisonous books in the College Special Collections that contain arsenic.
Stephen Snyder, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the Language Schools, spoke to the Houston Chronicle about the many benefits of speaking more than one language.
Stephanie Preiss ’11 is an executive producer on The New York Times Presents docuseries, which presents in-depth reporting on such matters as Britney Spears’s conservatorship, the killing of Breonna Taylor, and coronavirus frontline workers.
Sociology professor Chong-suk Han has been named a finalist in the LGBTQ Studies category for a Lambda Literary Award.
Take another look (or a first one) at English professor Jay Parini’s “novelized memoir,” Borges and Me.
