Beijing-Bound Olympians
Alpine skier Michel Macedo ’22.5 will represent Brazil at the Beijing Olympics in February 2020.
Alpine skier Michel Macedo ’22.5 will represent Brazil at the Beijing Olympics in February 2020.
Gabriela Muñoz MACI ’23, of This American Life, is pursuing a degree in interpretation from the Middlebury Institue.
Real-life quidditch, inspired by the magical game in Harry Potter, is changing its name, citing author J. K. Rowling’s “anti-trans positions in recent years.”
Rana Abdelhamid ’15 was recently featured in Harper’s BAZAAR.
NPR chronicles the stories of four students from Shanti Bhavan, a residential school in India dedicated to helping students break the cycle of poverty. Kusuma, 18, is on her way to Middlebury after scoring 91 percent on her board examinations in India.
Each year, Barbie selects extraordinary women as official role models and makes dolls in the women’s likenesses.
The U.S. troop withdrawal and Taliban takeover in Afghanistan are more than a distant news story for Afghan alumni of Middlebury. Some of them have shared their experiences recently.
Cheswayo Mphanza ’16 recently released a book of poetry, The Rinehart Frames, which won the African Poetry Book Foundation’s 2020 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.
Middlebury Institute alumna Danika Robison MPA ’19 documented a story of injustice, unionization, and the hard-fought preservation of a pre-Inca language and culture in Ecuador.