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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.

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.

Graphic of lines in an interconnected web on a purple background

2020s, Middlebury College, Faculty, Politics & Government, Science & Tech

Hone Your AI Know-How

Content created by artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential for spreading disinformation, writes Barbara Hofer, psychology professor emerita.

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.

Buckingham Palace during the 2023 coronation

Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty, Politics & Government

British National Anthem

If you followed the coronation of King Charles III, you may be interested in the history behind “God Save the King.”

Photo of Former Bread Loaf Faculty member Marjorie Ryerson in front of green shrubbery

Bread Loaf School of English, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty

Poetry as Medicine

Former Bread Loaf faculty member Marjorie Ryerson has published her first book of poetry, The Views from Mount Hunger.

Illustration of a woman looking into the review mirrior of her car as the drives by a statue of a gorrilla holding a car with one arm

Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences, Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty

In Praise of Roadside Americana

Megan Mayhew Bergman delights in driving past scrap metal dinosaurs, a giant gorilla holding a Volkswagen aloft, and other roadside attractions.

Deirdre Heekin ’89 holding a crate of grapes

1980s, Alumni, Environment, Faculty

Deirdre Heekin ’89 has been recognized as one of the 2023 Drinks Innovators of the Year by Food & Wine. Meanwhile, earth and climate science professor Jeff Munroe is expanding the science of terroir by using a new analytical framework to pinpoint how environmental factors affect the resulting wine.

2020s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty

Musicals to Unite Town and Gown

Seven Days reports on the role of the annual J-term musical in town and College community relations, featuring Town Hall Theater artistic director Doug Anderson, economics and environmental studies professor Jon Isham, and Zack Maluccio ’22.5.