In honor of the endless technological innovations that shape the way the College community communicates, learns and engages, the 2014 Clifford Symposium centered on the theme of “Transforming the Academy in the Digital Age.” On Sept. 18 and 19, distinguished visiting scholars and faculty members ...
On Sept. 18 at the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Dance Theatre, artists brought together by connections to North Carolina and Vermont presented NC Dances VT, an evening of dance works by The Van Dyke Dance Group, the University of Vermont’s Coordinator of Dance Paul Besaw and Assistant ...
In early November, the Rosetta space mission will land on a comet. Arguably as momentous as putting a rover on Mars or a man on the Moon, this space expedition also gets my vote as the coolest to date. I say this because the comet in question, 67P/Cheryumov-Gerasimenko, is moving 85,000 miles per hour ...
As this semester’s new videogame columnist, I will cover games ranging from small indie releases to big name games like Halo and Call of Duty. I want to start the column off with a review of a game I picked up this summer called Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Brothers was released on August 7, 2013 ...
The first weekend of the fall semester started with an artistic bang – at least for music lovers. On Sept. 12 and 13, the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB), in collaboration with WRMC, our college radio station, and Middlebury Music United, a student group focusing exclusively on the college ...
The fall semester is a time of transition for Middlebury’s Dance Program, as three new faculty members begin to make their mark in the wake of the retirement of longtime Professor of Dance Penny Campbell and the imminent retirement of Professor of Dance Andrea Olsen, who is on sabbatical leave this ...
At the end of last semester, the artists behind The Storytold Project were gathering momentum to debut a revitalized and reorganized organization at the start of the fall term. As promised, the program is now taking flight with a new, user-friendly website, faculty advisor and ambitions to expand the ...
The first round of class assignments and some surprisingly brisk weather have ushered in the fall semester more quickly than many of us would have liked. However, before you send a fifth email to that professor who won’t let you into their class or get geared up to find new ways to procrastinate (read: ...
This past summer, I was fortunate enough to be paid to spend exorbitant amounts of time listening to music – along with more logistical responsibilities – here at WRMC, Middlebury College’s student-run radio station. Aside from getting a hold of the biggest releases in the college radio world, ...
Every year, the College’s prestigious and innovative arts programs provide students the opportunity to watch, discuss and create moving works that have the potential to inspire scientists and artists alike. This year, a variety of impressive milestones will be celebrated across many departments, ...
The MiddSummer Play Lab (MSPL), a week-long summer intensive program that fosters relationships between Middlebury College students and alumni in the theatre and film industries, returned to campus for its second season this past week, Sept. 2-6. The program was started by Tara Giordano ’02.5 in 2013 ...
The College is a surprisingly busy place during the summer, with its hodgepodge of researchers, employees, Bread Loaf students, and language learners. This summer, 11 students attending the new Middlebury School of the Environment also joined the mix. The program ran for six weeks, from June 20 to Aug. ...
Dystopias seem to be “in.” The Giver, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Maze Runner and Divergent have all been adapted into films within the past twelve months, and plenty of other novels of similar themes populate the shelves, from 1984 to Clockwork Orange to Oryx and Crake. They often include ...
This past summer has been marked by wild news cycles in the energy industry. From the unleashing of ISIS on the Middle East to the beginning of American crude oil exports, these past three months have witnessed a shakeup in the global energy market. However, throughout all of this, the only constant ...
On May 1-4, the Middlebury Community Players staged John Cariani’s 2004 play Almost, Maine, a series of nine interlocking vignettes about a group in the northern reaches of Maine who haven’t quite yet organized themselves into an official town. The work recently surpassed A Midsummer Night’s Dream ...
This past weekend four seniors shared their senior thesis dance works with the College community in their concert “Reconstructed Notions”. Dance majors Hai Do ’14, Rachel Nuñez ’14, Cameron McKinney ’14 and Jill Moshman ’14 choreographed and performed deeply personal explorations that gave ...
The physicist Richard Feynman once wrote “we are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries… and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.” Although I’m skeptical that science will come to an end ...
Ali Smith’s unusual new novel Artful, published in 2012 by Penguin Books, begins with a poem, a Child Ballad from the early fifteenth century: “The wind doth blow today, my love, / And a few small drops of rain; / I never had but one true-love, / In cold grave she was lain. / I’ll do as much for ...
This is my last column for the Middlebury Campus, so I decided to write something a little bit different than my usual game review. With the arrival of the new console generation, the recent surge of independent game releases, and the ongoing debates about games as an artistic medium, I figured that ...
From April 30-May 3, the Middlebury College Departments of Theatre and Dance are presenting Sarah Ruhl’s Tony Award-nominated play “In the Next Room” (or The Vibrator Play). Associate Professor of Theatre Claudio Medeiros ’90 will direct the work, which stars seven students and serves as the ...