Funding for Climate Leaders
Megan Mayhew-Bergman, assistant professor of English and director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, has cofounded a new storytelling agency to help groups fighting the climate crisis.
Stories
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New Perspectives through Graphic Novels
History professor Rebecca Ayako Bennette strongly believes in the importance of studying history today, and the need to adapt her teaching to the times.
Political Dreams
Middlebury Magazine profiled Elsa Alvarado ’18, who at 24 was one of the youngest political appointees to the Pentagon.
How to Tell Green Stories
Megan Mayhew-Bergman, assistant professor of English and director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, has cofounded a new storytelling agency to help groups fighting the climate crisis.
Finding Beauty in an Aging Body
Sara Allen MA English ’87 is exhibiting a series of photographs of her “naturally aging body with its creases, folds and rough textures, its bumps and lines and spots” at the Abington Art Center in Pennsylvania.
Another Language, Another Soul
French lecturer and glass artist Brittney Gehrig, MA French ’22 shared her enthusiasm for language instruction as well as the formative experiences that led her to her present career in an interview with the Language Connects Foundation.
Upcycled Silo
Wyatt Robinson ’24.5 spent this past summer designing and painting a mural on the silo outside the Recycling Center.
New Head Distiller
The founders of the Middlebury-based Appalachian Gap Distillery are handing over the reins to longtime employee Will Drucker ’08.5, who bought a majority stake in the company.
Shades of Twilight
What does it mean that a 19th-century man who passed as white is a modern-day African American icon?