Upcoming Events

Join journalist Devon O’Neil ’01 for a presentation on reporting, writing, and following a non-linear career path as he discusses his award-winning 2025 book The Way Out: A true story of survival in the Heart of the Rockies. O’Neil, a psychology major at Middlebury, has been a daily newspaperman, a staff writer at ESPN, and a correspondent at Outside Magazine — as well as a construction worker, counterterrorism analyst, and backcountry hutmaster. He’ll detail how his time at Middlebury led to a life at 10,200 feet in Colorado and beyond. 

“Which Side Are You On?” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Garret Keizer, Writer.

The issue of environmental justice assayed from a viewpoint both leftishly biased and locally based. Questions raised: Why has “environmentalist” become a dirty word? What are the limits of environmentalism under capitalism? For whom will you be working ten years from now? Will you be working at all?

Senior English majors will read excerpts from their critical and creative writing senior theses.