Experience

Middlebury 2023 Thing Captain America Cast

2000s, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience

Doctor-Artist

This summer, CBS News profiled pediatric surgeon Lissie Fishman ’01, who makes art on the casts of her young patients after she finishes operating.

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.

Members of The Grift lie on the floor looking at each other.

1990s, 2000s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience

New Shift for the Grift

A new member officially joins the Grift (Clint Bierman ’97, Jeff Vallone ’97.5, and Peter Day ’01).

2000s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Experience, Identity

Kate Speer Fisher ’09.5 holds nothing back in sharing her mental health journey through misdiagnoses, hospitalizations, friendships, and the help of “fluff-bombing” dogs on the podcast Depresh Mode with John Moe.

2020s, Middlebury College, Experience

New Residence Hall Construction

The College recently broke ground for a 298-bed, 87,000-square-foot residence hall that will begin housing first-year students in fall 2025.

Drew Miller and Kyle Miller face each other on a floating dock with an officiant between them and two witnesses each on the left and right. The boards of the deck are wet in the center and edges.

2000s, Alumni, Experience

Modern Love

For the New York Times’s Tiny Love Stories series, Drew Miller ’03 recounts being nearly swamped, literally and figuratively, while he and his husband exchanged vows at their wedding.

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.

Students dancing to hip hop music in McCullough

2020s, Middlebury College, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience, Identity, Students

Bars, Beats, Moves, Art

Jordan Saint-Louis ’24 created a short documentary featuring the various artists who came to Middlebury’s hip-hop symposium in March.

Students lifting logs and rocks for first annual highland games

2020s, Middlebury College, Experience

Scottish Sports in Middlebury

The College hosted its first official Highland Games, also known to students as the Middland Games, in late April.

Emily Jones ’23 running in Fire Fighter equipment around the Middlebury track

2020s, Middlebury College, Experience, Students

Record-Smashing Run

Emily Jones ’23, a member of the Middlebury Fire Department, ran a mile on the College track in eight minutes and 25 seconds wearing full firefighter gear.