Events
Monday, January 12, 2026
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Ward Prize Celebration
- Sponsored by:
- Writing and Rhetoric Program
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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WTW: Money Talks: Weekly Wealth Conversations
- Sponsored by:
- Sustainability & Environmental Affairs
Do you ever think about your socioeconomic class at Middlebury, but feel afraid to discuss it with others? What if there was a cozy and open space to chat about these things? Our workshop will provide educational materials and community building examining socioeconomic class at Middlebury. Using materials from organizations like Resource Generation and readings such as The Financial Activist Playbook, we will talk about our family backgrounds and money stories in a relaxed environment with tea and snacks. People of all class backgrounds are encouraged to attend!
26 Blinn Lane (CCE) Conference Room
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Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy
- Sponsored by:
- Winterterm Workshop
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
- Sponsored by:
- Center for Careers & Internships
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
- Sponsored by:
- Mahaney Arts Center and Elizabeth Hackett Robinson ’84 Innovation Hub
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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Living with Genji: The "World's First Novel" in 21st Century Japan
- Sponsored by:
- Japanese and Axinn Center for the Humanities
Davis Family Library, Upper Level Display Cases
The students in JAPN 290 (“Reading the Tale of Genji” in English”) and Prof. Otilia Milutin (Japanese Studies) are cordially inviting you and your students to view their exhibit, “Living with Genji: The World’s First Novel in 21st Century Japan.” The exhibit features a selection of objects, artwork, movies, and manga inspired by the 11th century classic The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Our exhibit aims to showcase a few selected items that speak both of the tale’s enduring legacy in traditional Japanese arts, and, equally important, of its contemporary reiterations, be they manga and movies adaptations or commercial, consumer-oriented products such as mascots, stationary, fabrics, and other everyday objects. Through our exhibit, we hope to demonstrate how a millennium old classic lives and thrives today in contemporary Japan.
Middlebury College
Open to the Public
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Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation
- Sponsored by:
- Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students. No registration required. Drop in any day that works for you!
McCullough Crest Room
Closed to the Public
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Drop-In Hours with the Dean of Spiritual & Religious Life
- Sponsored by:
- Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
Closed to the PublicStop in to chat and enjoy a cup of hot tea with Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life Mark Orten.
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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
- Sponsored by:
- Health and Wellness Education
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
- Sponsored by:
- Center for Careers & Internships
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