What happens when you get a group of Middlebury students together and tell them to solve an important real-world problem using science? For some, this might seem like an overly daunting, if not impossible, task. But for the seven students taking part in the STEM Innovation Program this J-term, the opportunity ...
The Middlebury College Performing Arts Series is proud to engage the acclaimed Heath Quartet as its first-ever Quartet in Residence to kick off 2016. The U.K.-based ensemble will spend all of Middlebury’s Winter Term on campus. Their first free concert on Jan. 14 is being proclaimed as one of the ...
Before you all freak out about the 14-year-old protagonist in Andrew Smith’s novel Winger, as I did, I should point out that this book is a breath of fresh air in the Young Adult section. Now, I normally stay far away from this genre, as I find the protagonists to be whiny and immature – but it ...
As the last house lights dimmed in the dance theater of the Mahaney Center for the Arts (MCA), the audience quickly hushed their conversation in anticipation of the Fall Dance Concert’s first number. The spectators – a healthy mix of students and community members – waited quietly as the performers ...
Clickshare, a new play by Lucas Kavner ’06.5, premiered this weekend at the Seeler Studio Theatre at the Mahaney Center for the Arts (MCA). Directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Alex Draper and featuring an original company composed entirely of current Middlebury students, Clickshare proved ...
Before the musical began, director Maria Flanders ’18 spoke to the audience crowded inside Hepburn Zoo. Along with a kind reminder to silence our cell phones, she implored us to recognize the ability that seemingly inconsequential chance encounters have to change our lives. The show that followed, ...
If mystery and suspense are your genres of choice, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is a must-read. A tense, unpredictable novel with frightening characters and a crafty plot, this book has become an international sensation. Originally published in Sweden under the title Män som hatar ...
Dartmouth Professor of Biochemistry Jon Lull spoke last Friday, Dec. 4 about his research using fatty acids to treat cholera and other gastrointestinal bacterial diseases, which, combined, kill 100,000 people every year. Cholera is caused by Vibrio cholerae bacteria and is spread through contaminated ...
The College has welcomed seven new science and math professors in the last two years. This year’s new professors are Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Amanda Crocker, Assistant Professor of Biology Jill Mikucki and Assistant Professor of Mathematics Albert Kim. Professors who came to Middlebury ...
For years, the College has been home to a variety of bands, acapella groups, chamber music ensembles, improvisational comedy troupes and more. Wide-ranging as the performance venues are on campus, however, there still remains much to be explored. This semester, the newly formed group Middlebury Discount ...
Signs directed the way to the Bunker in Freeman International Center as audience members made their way to the premiere of Roadkill, the senior work of Tosca Giustini ’15.5 and Leah Sarbib ’15.5. Running from Nov. 19-21, the devised play explores four different friends’ connections to a girl named ...
I am tired of the empty, easy-come-easy-go gratification of most of the things I watch these days. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes all I want is two hours of slack-jawed vegetation, but recently I have been thirsting for more. Middlebury’s event listing describes Clickshare as a play about “a group ...
It takes a certain kind of daring to make the main characters of your novel two of the most gifted writers in history: William Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe (more commonly known to us as Christopher Marlowe). Yet author Elizabeth Bear succeeds in this regard. Like Shakespeare’s plays, The Stratford ...
In 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda read Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton and was inspired deeply by his story. A few months later he read what he called Hamilton Mixtape at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word accompanied by Alex Lacamoire. Miranda was fascinated with ...
Imagine one day you wake up and you are really craving a delicious crepe, so you decide to drive to the Skinny Pancake in Burlington. If, like me, you are not a native Vermonter, you would probably use some sort of GPS to aid you in your journey. However, you might take for granted how much physics ...
Every once in a while, we need a reminder that our progression to a more digital world does not erase the value of analog works. Currently adorning the white walls of the center of Johnson Memorial Building are dozens of mostly black-and-white images of natural scenery, various nooks and crannies on ...
For 19 years, the International Students’ Organization (ISO) has organized their seminal yearly event, a wildly popular celebration of global cultures through music, dance and poetry. This year’s Saturday, Nov. 21 show, “Spectrum: A Celebration of Diversity,” features over 100 student performers ...
We may be past Halloween, but Good Omens is good reading any time of the year. Written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett back before either of them were famous, this novel is a hilarious story about the apocalypse and the eternal battle between heaven and hell. Neil Gaiman is the author of surpassingly ...
Because of our remote location, Middlebury students do not often get to directly interact with organizations that they study, especially for majors who study those who currently hold great power. Members of the Environmental Studies and Food Studies curriculums enjoyed an exception to this last Tuesday, ...
How often do you get the chance to watch one of the best films of the year about one of the most influential people in the last century and listen to a follow-up lecture given by the world’s leading expert on the topic? Not often enough. Frame that within the context of a Nazi invasion, a desperate ...