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A Year in the Makerspace

In the 2025-26 academic year, students working in Middlebury’s Makerspace designed and produced more than a dozen projects.

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Sights and Sounds

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Panther Profile: John Halverson '29

Hockey player John Halverson ‘29 spent the first six years of his life shuffling in and out of hospitals. Which is to say—he’s come a long way to be skating on and off the ice in Kenyon Arena.

Produced by George Madison ‘27

News and Announcements

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Essays and Commentary

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Undamming Hope

Dam removals offer an opportunity for ecological reconnection. And a wild education.
By Tara Lohan ‘99
Illustration by Sally Deng

Common Sense

In a world riven with division and disconnection, a Vermont poet and farmer searches for the ties that bind.
By Lucas Farrell’ 03

The Student Mind

Citing experiences in two of his courses, an associate professor of writing and rhetoric counters public sentiment that today’s college students are not taking the time to contemplate—and are writing less and less. 
By Hector Vila

Vignettes and Portraits

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Meet the New Faculty, Fall 2026

Middlebury College welcomed an impressive group of new faculty members for the 2026–27 academic year, bringing expertise across a broad range of disciplines, including sociology, geology, mathematics and statistics, English, psychology, music, and political science. Meet a few of them below.

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Homecoming

Join alumni and friends in celebrating 2026 Middlebury Homecoming.

Axinn Center, Room 229

The Justice of Being Heard: Acknowledgment, Memory, and the Work of Peace

What do people seek when they seek justice? A judgment may establish responsibility. A truth commission may create a public record. An oral history may give someone the opportunity to tell a story that has long gone unheard. Although these processes have different powers and purposes, each can provide something fundamental: acknowledgment. Drawing on her work as a human rights lawyer and co-founder of Rerooted, Anoush Baghdassarian, along with her co-founder Ani Schug, will explore acknowledgment as the connective tissue among law, memory, storytelling, and peacebuilding.