While the COVID-19 pandemic upended the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, it also provided a new opportunity for Middlebury Institute students and recent alumni to interpret remotely on a large scale: the Junior Interpreter Program.
Seven Days reviews the first full-length album by the Big Sip, formed in 2016 by Matthew Diener ’20, Jack Cattabiani ’20, Nick Schrope ’20, and Evan Mercer ’20, calling it a “thoughtfully arranged, ambitious batch of well-polished songs.”
NPR chronicles the stories of four students from Shanti Bhavan, a residential school in India dedicated to helping students break the cycle of poverty. Kusuma, 18, is on her way to Middlebury after scoring 91 percent on her board examinations in India.
LeeCharles McNeil ’23 credits Middlebury with exposing him to “viewpoints and belief systems that…I never knew existed.” In this piece, he reflects on how coming to Middlebury has changed him for the better. LeeCharles is a recipient of the Barbara and John Tormondsen ’82 Scholarship.
Olivia Olson ’21.5 shares her summer research about extinct sea minks in Maine, and how her work can help inform preservation practices for other species.
Chloe Levins ’20 is one of the rising stars in the U.S. biathlon program, and she hopes to secure a spot on the team for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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.