Kelson Foundation Gift
Middlebury has received a gift of $5 million from the Kelson Foundation to support the future of the Innovation Hub, home to Middlebury’s programs on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Stories
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Economic Legacy
Legacy National Economic Council Director Brian Deese ’00 will be making a preplanned departure from the Biden administration this month after two years as the president’s top economic advisor.
Art: Voyage, Studio: Ship
Step inside the artist’s studio with this Apollo magazine profile of Bread Loaf School of English participant and College alumna Himali Singh Soin ’08.
Caring For the Land
In a new memoir, A Little Bit of Land, poet and farmer Jessica Gigot ’01 discusses food systems, women farmers, and her path from suburbia to agriculture.
Cannabis Trailblazer
Michael Sims ’00 is the co-owner of Middlebury-based FLORA, one of three stores in Vermont to welcome long lines of customers on October 1, the first day of legal recreational cannabis sales.
A Boost for Adaptive Sports
In September 2022, the 17th annual Kelly Brush Ride raised more than $1 million to help people with spinal cord injuries afford cost-prohibitive adaptive sports equipment.
Sharing the journey to recovery
Clay Moorhead ’02 shares his motivation for giving back to Middlebury. Sober for nearly six years, Moorhead wants to help others who face addiction. “There is a better way of life,” he says.
Mister Miss America
Neil D’Astolfo ’07.5 portrays Derek Tyler Taylor, the first male contestant in his small-town beauty pageant, in the off-Broadway solo show Mister Miss America at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
The Adele of Audiobooks
Julia Whelan ’08 has established herself as the voice narrating hundreds of audiobooks, including Gillian Flynn’s thriller Gone Girl and Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated.