Rediscovering a Forgotten Suffragist
Blanche Ames Ames was a suffragist, activist, and inventor often left out of history books, so William Ames ’66 stepped in to executive produce a documentary about his exceptional family member.
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The Atlas of Disappearing Places
Christina Conklin ’90 created an array of maps from seaweed for this new book that she coauthored with Marina Psaros, each showing locations in our world vulnerable to the ravages of climate change.
Gas Power from Manure
Representatives from around Vermont, including Middlebury College, celebrated the start of gas production at the Northeast’s largest anaerobic digester at a dairy farm in Salisbury, Vermont.
A Gift for Hebrew Education
The Middlebury School of Hebrew has received a $1.17 million donation from the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation.
Alum Startup Wins Accelerator Contest
SheFly Apparel beat out over 100 startups to win one of four spots in the Moosejaw Outdoor Acceleration program.
World Leadership and Digital Dollars
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman ’80 has been named #3 on Fortune’s 2021 World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list for PayPal’s groundbreaking investment in employees and pandemic financial relief efforts.
An Exemplary Educator
Beverly Moss, director of the Bread Loaf Teacher Network, has won the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication Exemplar Award.
Art for the Earth
Bread Loaf student and multimedia artist Himali Singh Soin ’08 is using her art to raise awareness and funds for ecological and community sustainability in the Himalayas.
Fighting for Cultural Survival
Middlebury Institute alumna Danika Robison MPA ’19 documented a story of injustice, unionization, and the hard-fought preservation of a pre-Inca language and culture in Ecuador.