Science and mathematics are a vital and dynamic part of Middlebury’s liberal arts curriculum.

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Students who want the best in STEM education will find it here, as well as a holistic education that fosters a deep and integrative approach to any field of study they choose. Middlebury’s science and math departments blend the high-tech facilities and cutting-edge research typically associated with larger universities with the collaborative learning atmosphere of a liberal arts college. With 11 departments and programs focused on math and both the physical and life sciences, Middlebury not only has a broad range of ways to study the sciences, it gives students the freedom to explore them all.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall
McCardell Bicentennial Hall

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Events Calendar

  • Northeastern Old Growth Conference 2025

    The 2025 Northeastern Old Growth Conference: Wildlands and Old-Growth Forests, co-hosted by Middlebury College and the University of Vermont, will be held September 17–20, 2025, at Middlebury’s scenic Bread Loaf Campus in Ripton, Vermont. Scientists, conservationists, policymakers, health professionals, writers, and artists will gather to share knowledge and inspire a future with more wildlands and old-growth forests in the Northeast. This year’s themes include The Future of Old Growth, Healthy Forests, Healthy People, and Old Growth Ecology.

    Bread Loaf Campus

  • Northeastern Old Growth Conference 2025

    The 2025 Northeastern Old Growth Conference: Wildlands and Old-Growth Forests, co-hosted by Middlebury College and the University of Vermont, will be held September 17–20, 2025, at Middlebury’s scenic Bread Loaf Campus in Ripton, Vermont. Scientists, conservationists, policymakers, health professionals, writers, and artists will gather to share knowledge and inspire a future with more wildlands and old-growth forests in the Northeast. This year’s themes include The Future of Old Growth, Healthy Forests, Healthy People, and Old Growth Ecology.

    Bread Loaf Campus

  • Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

    “AI and Climate: Superpowers for Good or Drivers of Destruction?” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Tim Profeta, Professor of the Practice, Middlebury College, and Senior Fellow, Duke Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability and Vee Syengo ‘25.5, Computer Science and English double major at Middlebury College.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public

  • Northeastern Old Growth Conference 2025

    The 2025 Northeastern Old Growth Conference: Wildlands and Old-Growth Forests, co-hosted by Middlebury College and the University of Vermont, will be held September 17–20, 2025, at Middlebury’s scenic Bread Loaf Campus in Ripton, Vermont. Scientists, conservationists, policymakers, health professionals, writers, and artists will gather to share knowledge and inspire a future with more wildlands and old-growth forests in the Northeast. This year’s themes include The Future of Old Growth, Healthy Forests, Healthy People, and Old Growth Ecology.

    Bread Loaf Campus

  • Northeastern Old Growth Conference 2025

    The 2025 Northeastern Old Growth Conference: Wildlands and Old-Growth Forests, co-hosted by Middlebury College and the University of Vermont, will be held September 17–20, 2025, at Middlebury’s scenic Bread Loaf Campus in Ripton, Vermont. Scientists, conservationists, policymakers, health professionals, writers, and artists will gather to share knowledge and inspire a future with more wildlands and old-growth forests in the Northeast. This year’s themes include The Future of Old Growth, Healthy Forests, Healthy People, and Old Growth Ecology.

    Bread Loaf Campus

  • Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

    “Forest Recovery from Human Land-Use: Implications for Streams and Carbon Storage” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Stephen Peters-Collaer, PhD student in forest ecology in the Carbon Dynamics Lab at the University of Vermont.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public

  • “Where the tree ends and your head begins” – Listening to Gloria Anzaldúa’s Multi-Species Meditations

    This practice-based activity is open to anyone on campus, but especially those interested in thinking about ecology beyond traditional Western disciplinary lenses. We will use drawings and sound to consider the boundaries between more-than-human nature and embodied experience that Gloria Anzaldúa set out in her mediations, which proposed a feminist approach to the spaces and places at the U.S-Mexico border.

    Axinn Center 229

    Open to the Public

    Free

  • Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

    Environmental Studies Core Conversations: Time
    Daniel Brayton, Julian W. Abernethy Professor of Literature and member of the Environmental Studies Program
    Joseph Holler
    , Associate Professor of Geography
    Christopher Klyza, Stafford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies
    Monica Przyperhart, Visiting Laboratory Instructor in Environmental Studies

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public

  • Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

    “Regional Trash, Urban Harm: Environmental Justice Dialogue in Greater Hartford, CT” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Abigail Fisher Williamson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Law at Trinity College.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public

  • Women in Data Science Conference 2025

    Women in Data Science (WiDS) Middlebury aims to celebrate the participation of women in data science and to feature outstanding women doing outstanding work in the field. Come listen to mini research talks by Middlebury professors, and be inspired by our keynote speaker Professor Kaitlyn Cook, a biostatistician from Smith College. All students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend! Lights snacks and refreshments will be provided.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Closed to the Public