2026 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipients Announced
Writer Kim Stanley Robinson selected as speaker.
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Student Documentary on the Knoll Debuts at Yale Film Festival
The film Breaking Ground by Henry Wang ’27 is an official selection of the 2026 EFFY Environmental Film Festival at Yale University, where it will premiere on March 27.
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The Middlebury Campus Named 2025 New England College Newspaper of the Year
The honor marks the first time the newspaper has won the award.
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Midd Scholars Featured in New PBS Thoreau Documentary
Rebecca Gould and Bill McKibben provide expert insight throughout the new Ken Burns–produced film.
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Lucas Nerbonne ’25.5 Awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
The earth and climates sciences major will travel to Scotland, India, Peru, and Norway during his year of independent study.
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In Memoriam: Jim Larrabee
A dedicated mentor, many of Larrabee’s students credited him with inspiring them to enter science-related fields.
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Alone Together
A Middlebury psychology professor flips the script on “the loneliness epidemic.”
By Virginia Thomas
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Vignettes and Portraits
View all Vignettes and PortraitsSunday Night Environmental Group Turns 20
Dozens of alumni who helped launch Middlebury’s Sunday Night Environmental Group (originally known as the “Sunday Night Group”) returned to campus recently for SNEG’s 20-year reunion and a two-day conference exploring the question, “What Works Now?”
We asked a few of them to reflect on their time as Middlebury students and to offer some advice for today’s generation of college climate activists. Here are a few of the voices from that gathering.
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Minna Brown ’07
“Find your niche,” says the director of the Middlebury Climate Action Program.
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Jamie Henn '07
“Come forward with bold ideas,” says the executive director of Fossil Free Media.
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Phil Aroneanu '06.5
“This is such a great time to start something new,” says the chief partnership and strategy advisor for Climate United.
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Hannah Bristol '14.5
“I rely on the skills I learned here every day,” says the political organizer.
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So I've Heard
In a darkened room on campus, an immersive “listening experience” takes the audience on a journey of sounds.
By Jessie Raymond ’90
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Featured Events
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Dana Auditorium
A Conversation with Dan Chiasson, author of “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People's Politician”
Dan Chiasson, biographer of Bernie Sanders, will be in discussion with Professor Megan Mayhew-Bergman. He will read from his new book and take questions from the audience.
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre
Black Queer Dance: How You Movin' (Through the World)?
Dr. Mark Broomfield, Associate Professor of English, Founder and Director of Performance as Social Change™ at SUNY Geneseo, is a London-born, award-winning scholar and artist of Jamaican heritage, with publications in the areas of race, gender, sexuality, dance, and ethnography.
He will deliver a performance and talk on his book Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Economic Sanctions: Lessons Learned from Ukraine and Future Use
The United States has used economic sanctions many times to try to achieve foreign policy goals. Sanctions were used extensively on Russia after it invaded Ukraine. How effective were these sanctions and what can we learn from their use going forward? Elizabeth Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes in the Biden Administration, played a key role in the sanctions effort and will discuss these issues with Q and A afterwards.
Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre
The Maids
The Maids by Jean Genet, translation by Martin Crimp.
Two maids indulge in a delicious game of role-play as they plot the murder of their capricious mistress. As the stakes rise, their performance spirals into a ritual where adoration, hatred, sacrifice, and glory promise a grand spectacle of liberation.
Directed by Professor Claudio Medeiros. Senior work in costume design of Juli Valle. Senior work in acting by Zeph Santiago and Ryan Ulen. Performances April 9-11 at 7:30 PM and April 11 at 2 PM.
Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby
Museum Family Day
Art lovers of all ages are welcome to the Middlebury College Museum of Art for a special day of art talks, crafts, and fun in the museum! Families will join art educators in the lobby of the MCMA for hands-on craft projects inspired by artworks in the collection. Inside the museum, guides will lead looking exercises for all ages. Light refreshments will be served, perfect for ages 6+.