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Portrait of professor Rebecca Ayako Bennette

2020s, Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Faculty

Scrutinizing the Third Reich

History professor Rebecca Ayako Bennette is one of the experts featured in the National Geographic documentary series Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich.

Middlebury 2023 Place Otter Creek Flooded With Mother and Child

2020s, Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Environment, Experience, Faculty, Science & Tech

Flooded Summer

For Vermonters, this has been a summer of heavy rains and destructive floods, including August flash floods in Middlebury.

2020s, Academic Excellence, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Science & Tech

Portrait of Young Artists

This Middlebury Magazine dispatch by Alexandra Jhamb Burns ’21.5 follows Maia Sauer ’22, Cheryl Engmann ’22, C Green ’19.5, and Sam Kann ’21 as they navigate art-making as recent grads.

2020s, Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Staff

Transformed Trash

Watch this WCAX report on “Tossed,” the Middlebury art museum’s exhibition featuring nearly 20 works that incorporate discarded materials.

Astrud Gilberto performing in the mid 1990s; she holds a microphone close to her face and has a wide patterned headband over her hair.

2020s, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty

Hometown Non-Hero

Bossa nova icon Astrud Gilberto, who died recently, was underappreciated in her native Brazil, writes Professor of Luso- Hispanic Studies Mario Higa in the Conversation.

Elie Wiesel, Professor of the Humanities, Boston University, USA speaks during the session ‘A New Agenda: Combining Efficiency and Human Dignity’ at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos/Switzerland, January 28, 2003

2000s, Academic Excellence, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture

Healing with Elie Wiesel

Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel spoke at Middlebury in 2002.

Word bubble with text CO2 on a red background

2020s, Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Environment, Students

Climate Change Consultants

A College student group proposed a road map for the town of Middlebury to cut its emission of carbon dioxide by 80 percent by the end of this decade.

CTEC illustration students working on computers with illuminated network above them_Midjourney-generated

Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Academic Excellence, Philanthropy, Politics & Government

Middlebury has received an anonymous gift of $2 million to expand the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute and to provide financial aid to graduate students.

A graduate embraces their relative at the WLAX graduation 2023 celebration

2020s, Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Alumni, Athletics, Experience, Students

Victory in Threes

The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team captured its third-straight NCAA championship, defeating Gettysburg College.

Vermont dirst road at sunset with mountains

Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty, Identity

After Moving to the Country

Geography professor Peter Nelson was a featured guest on a recent episode of the WBUR podcast On Point focusing on big-city dwellers who increasingly leave for small towns and suburbs.