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2010s, Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Equity & Justice, Identity
Former Bread Loaf Fellow Cleyvis Natera’s debut novel, Neruda on the Park, is a portrait of how gentrification impacts a Dominican family in New York City.
2000s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Identity
Neil D’Astolfo ’07.5 portrays Derek Tyler Taylor, the first male contestant in his small-town beauty pageant, in the off-Broadway solo show Mister Miss America at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
2000s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience
Julia Whelan ’08 has established herself as the voice narrating hundreds of audiobooks, including Gillian Flynn’s thriller Gone Girl and Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated.
Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty, Identity
Visual artist, graffiti scholar, and educator Will Kasso Condry has been selected for the first Vermont Prize, a new endeavor aimed at celebrating and supporting the best visual art being made in Vermont.
2000s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Identity
A film by Jude Dry ’09 won “Best New England Short” at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival.
Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience, Identity
The Vermont Statehouse recently unveiled a portrait of Alexander Twilight, Class of 1823, the first person of African descent to serve in a state legislature and to graduate from a U.S. college.
2020s, Language Schools, Access, Arts, Language, Culture, Equity & Justice, Science & Tech
Scientist Ross McIntosh has been working to overcome antivaccination beliefs in communities experiencing polio outbreaks in Africa. Fluency in French—gained through a fellowship at the Language Schools—has helped him to overcome vaccine hesitancy.
2020s, Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Access, Arts, Language, Culture, Science & Tech
Middlebury plans to make data science a fundamental part of a liberal arts education. A new initiative, midd.data, will ensure all students understand and can use data and digital tools and techniques to create knowledge, regardless of their majors.
Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience, Faculty
What began as an attempt by Assistant Professor Matthew Evan Taylor to collaborate with fellow musicians during the isolation of the pandemic ended up being a yearlong project that culminated in an evening performance at the Met.
Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience, Faculty
Jay Parini sits for an interview to discuss his years of teaching and writing while at Middlebury College.
