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.
In the 2025-26 academic year, students working in Middlebury’s Makerspace designed and produced more than a dozen projects.
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
A New York Times Magazine feature included research by Middlebury professors Germán Reyes and Zara Contractor.
Five faculty members will work with researchers from Bennington College, the University of Vermont, and Landmark College to study “forever chemicals” contamination and the potential health effects.
Students, faculty, and college leaders examined the role of open dialogue and intellectual disagreement in a liberal arts education.
The College will honor ‘Coach Mac’ with a formal posthumous appointment as the fifth head coach in the history of the Middlebury women’s hockey program.
Dam removals offer an opportunity for ecological reconnection. And a wild education.
By Tara Lohan ‘99
Illustration by Sally Deng
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.
Dana Hogan joins the Middlebury faculty as assistant professor of history of art and architecture.
Mendel Kranz joins the Middlebury faculty as assistant professor of religion.
Nadia Vossoughi joins the Middlebury faculty as assistant professor of psychology.
How a photographer channels the 19th century to interpret the 21st.
Campus
Join alumni and friends in celebrating 2026 Middlebury Homecoming.
Axinn Center, Room 229
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.