24-Hour DataFest Stretched Students’ Analytical and Creative Thinking Skills
Nearly 150 students working in 32 teams embraced the annual challenge to find and share meaning from a large, complex dataset. Photographs by Daria Bishop
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Slideshow: “If You See Fungus, We Want It!”
Members of the MiddMyco Club explored a stretch of the Trail Around Middlebury, bagging samples for a statewide fungi database.
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Allison Jacobel Receives Perkins Award for Excellence in Teaching
The assistant professor of earth and climates sciences was described as an “exemplar of the individual and collective commitment to education.”
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New Documentary by James Sanchez Premieres on Rolling Stone Films and Documenta…
James Sanchez, associate professor of writing and rhetoric, is the producer of “The Spiritual Advisor,” a short documentary from Rolling Stone Films about the Reverend Jeff Hood, who accompanies men on death row.
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Highlights from the Spring Symposium
More than 250 students from all class years and academic disciplines presented their research and creative works at the annual Spring Symposium at Bicentennial Hall.
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Meg Simon ’26 Wins Hockey Humanitarian Award
The national honor was presented at the Park MGM Ballroom in Las Vegas as part of the NCAA Men’s Frozen Four weekend.
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Is the War in Iran a Sign of the Apocalypse?
In an essay for The Conversation, Shalom Goldman, the Pardon Tillinghast Professor Emeritus of Religion, says that some conservative Christians are interpreting the conflict through Biblical prophesies.
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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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Video: Panther Profile—Caleb Boateng '26
The Middlebury senior talks about his efforts to overcome anxiety and panic attacks on his way to feeling more confident on the squash courts.
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Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble: Return of the Big Band
The Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble, back to its full size and directed by Kyle Saulnier, performs a wide range of big band jazz from timeless classics to contemporary repertoire. This end-of-semester set covers maximum ground, from early Duke Ellington, to titans like Thad Jones and Dizzy Gillespie, to modern works by Phil Wilson and John Fedchock. The band is large—the energy is larger.
This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall
115 Franklin Street main floor, Humanities Center
NER Ulysses Reading Series
Join us on Thursday, April 30 at 7:00 PM for the fourth installment of the NER Ulysses Reading Series! This biannual, in-person reading series is hosted in Middlebury College’s vibrant and accessible Humanities House (115 Franklin Street), and celebrates new work by writers at all stages of their careers.
Featuring a curated mix of New England Review contributors, local authors, and promising Middlebury student writers, the NER Ulysses Reading Series produces a lively and thought-provoking experience that demonstrates the breadth and complexity of our literary moment.Featuring poet and educator Stephen Cramer, writer and Bread Loaf coordinator Jason Lamb, NER contributor Meg Reynolds, and Middlebury student writer Joanne Zhang.
Old Stone Mill (82 Weybridge Street)
Spring Art Market at the Old Stone Mill
The Spring Art Market at the Old Stone Mill is an artisans and craft market run by student vendors who have created products to sell in a variety of mediums, such as ceramics, jewelry, crochet, greeting cards, prints, and crepes! Bring clean, unwanted clothes to participate in a clothing swap. The Old Stone Mill will also be open for viewing M Gallery’s spring ‘26 exhibition, “Tools for the Future.” Individuals can purchase student work using Venmo or cash. Featuring live music from student band, Two Shakes of a Lamb’s Tail. Rain location: Axinn.
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre
Spring Dance Concert
Join us for the Middlebury Dance Department’s Spring Dance Concert, an evening of original choreography, music, and improvisation. The concert features students from Daniel Miramontes’ Choreography and Performance, Lida Winfield’s Advanced Improvisation, and McLean Macionis’ Advanced Electronic Music courses. The performance will also feature live music by Ron Rost and Deborah Felmeth along with original lighting design. $15/10/5. Open to the public.
Chateau 005 (Performance Space) 139 Chateau Road
The German Theater Group presents: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, "Die Physiker"
Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists is a darkly comic thriller set in a psychiatric clinic, where three scientists pretend to be mad. Their hidden identities and inventions trigger a tense battle between ethics and power, revealing how dangerous knowledge can be in the wrong hands.