Events
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Sunday, January 11, 2026
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Before I Die
This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.
Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby
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Open Skate
Join us every Sunday in the Kenyon Arena for Open Skate! Email us at figskate@middlebury.edu with any questions!
Chip Kenyon Arena
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Shape Note Singing
Described as spiritual, joyful, powerful, and raucous, Shape Note (or Sacred Harp) singing is a traditional American style of four-part, a capella, community singing popular in the United States before the Civil War. This style still thrives across the US and in the UK, with strongholds in the American South and New England. It is called Shape Note because the notes of the scale are indicated by distinctive shapes and names.
McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge
Open to the Public
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Football Games at The Grille
Join us every Thursday and Sunday to watch the football games at The Grille and enjoy weekly menu specials!
McCullough Wilson Cafe
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Spencer Prize in Oratory 2026 Qualifying Rounds
In honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former trustee John Spencer, Oratory Now is pleased to present the ninth annual speech competition for first-year students (including sophomore febs!). Qualifying rounds culminate in a Jan 27 Grand Championship event. Details are at go/spencer. FREE and open to the public.
Adirondack Coltrane Lounge
Open to the Public
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Sunday Night Environmental Group
If you’re passionate about climate change and the environment, come join SNEG to get involved in a multitude of environmental campaigns (you can pitch one too)!
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Monday, January 12, 2026
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Before I Die
This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.
Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby
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Ward Prize Celebration
Celebration of Nominees and Winners of the 2025 Ward Prize
The Paul W. Ward ‘25 Memorial Prize competition recognizes annually those first-year students who are judged by the faculty to have produced outstanding writing in writing classes during that academic year. Please join us we celebrate this year’s winners and nominees.
Axinn Center Winter Garden
Open to the Public
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Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy
A comprehensive introduction to traditional Chinese brush calligraphy. We will start from the very basics: how to hold a brush and the basic strokes. Each week will consist of two sessions, with each week focusing on a new style or calligrapher. The leader will give an introduction to each style and demonstrate writing. The participants will then have the opportunity to practice, with the workshop leader giving feedback. During the last session (or two) we will write traditional Spring Couplets on red paper for Spring Festival. No experience necessary.
Sunderland IL1
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Hands-on Help with your Internship Search
This is a time for you to dig in and find something to do this summer! There will be active support from peer career advisors who will be available to assist you in your searching. Come with specific ideas of the type of thing you’re looking for, or just a general idea is fine too. Peer advisors can show you resources and tools to help you navigate the search the best way possible in Handshake, Midd2Midd and more. This is not a lecture, so get ready to be busy and make progress!
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026
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Before I Die
This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.
Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby
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The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI
Higher education stands at a crossroads. Economic, cultural, and technological forces are encouraging and permitting students to cheat in new and more pervasive ways. Generative AI has rendered current assessment regimes obsolete and called traditional pedagogical strategies into question across disciplines. How then, is an instructor to respond in the face of overwhelming change?
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
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Therapy Dog Hour
Come visit with Milo and friends for some dog snuggles or a quick pet, and share stories and pictures of your pets at home. You can find us outside Davis Library when weather is nice, otherwise you will find us across from the info desk.
Davis Family Library
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Find and Fund your Summer Internship
Now is the time to start planning your summer internship! Learn strategies for finding or creating the best summer internship for you.
At this session, we will:
Axinn Center 229