When the Biomass plant, a lynchpin of Middlebury College’s carbon neutrality goal, shuts down, it is a massive undertaking. Starting the night of Thursday, Oct. 10, the plant’s input of wood chips was stalled, the burners died down and steam pumping through the College’s pipes was heated by oil ...
Patrick McConathy is an entrepreneur of diverse interests and accomplishments. From Colorado, he joined the Middlebury College Board of Trustees in 2005. McConathy brings to the table a Western-U.S. perspective, enthusiasm for the institution, decades of experience and networks in the energy industry ...
Instead of the steady hum of steam and woodchips moving through pipes, on Monday, Oct. 14, the biomass plant was a hive of activity. Power-washers sprayed water onto the machinery, large vacuum tubes crisscrossed the plant, and staffers clad in white protective suits and masks cleaned the gasifier ...
Most people on campus can tell you that the old yellow and green houses you pass on your way to the Snow Bowl are home to the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. But not as many people can tell you that across the street from Alexander Twilight Hall, in a converted pediatrician’s office stands the headquarters ...
Movies seem to tell us that any form of connectedness seems possible when “all you need is love.” But somehow this kind of idealism doesn’t seem to exist in reality, like love at first sight. Differences in culture create rifts between people. It’s harder to approach someone of another cultural ...
Eight contestants had four minutes each to compete for the chance to be a speaker at TedxMiddlebury next month. After four minutes, an alarm rang, but most students talked through it. The competition, held last Thursday on Oct. 10 at Crossroads Café, was the preliminary step towards the conference ...
InSite, the College’s entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, finished eighth overall in the 2013 competition. Nineteen collegiate teams were selected to compete in the challenge, which required two years of planning, designing and building, culminating in Irvine, Calif. on Oct. ...
This year, the College’s numerous student organizations focusing on food consciousness have joined forces to create a Food Cluster group. Led by College Food and Farm Educator Sophie Esser Calvi ’03, the Food Cluster is a coalition that seeks to promote cooperation among groups such as EatReal, ...
As the College works to bring the Biomass Plant back up and running after it ran for 16 straight weeks — the longest, consecutive period to date — increased questions have been raised over the viability of carbon neutrality as the College races towards its 2016 goal. In 2007, the College Board ...
The College’s focus on local and sustainable food continues this month with “Eating Forward,” a campaign organized by Olivia French ’14 and Jake Nonweiler ’14. The series, which runs through October, features environmentalists in various areas of the American food industry, including farmers, ...
Nine professors at the College are currently piloting a trial run of turnitin.com, an Internet-based plagiarism prevention service and electronic grading system. The implementation of the pilot program comes on the heels of recommendations made by the Honor Code Review Committee (HCRC) last spring. Last ...
The Department of Public Safety has recently added two new officers to its staff in order to bring personnel levels up to full strength. But the move also accompanies a long-term discussion between Public Safety and Old Chapel regarding a permanent increase in the size of Public Safety. The new employees, ...
As per annual tradition, various Swedish and Norwegian academies and committees awarded the Nobel Prizes last week in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics. The first category of prizes to be awarded was Medicine. Last Monday, the Karolinska Institute bestowed ...
Student Suspended for Removal of Sept. 11 Memorial Anna Shireman-Grabowski ‘14.5, the student accused of pulling nearly 3,000 American flags from the ground that had been placed on the lawn in front of Mead Chapel to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, was handed a one-year suspension ...
The Community Council met on Monday, Oct. 14 for its third meeting of the year to discuss a report written by the Honor Code Review Committee at the end of last year. A Community Council meeting the previous week consisted of a discussion on the hard alcohol policy at the College, a conversation that ...
After many months of planning, Erik Andrus and his barge, “Ceres,” are on their way to New York City with 12 tons of goods to sell along the way. Andrus, the owner and operator of the Bound Brook Farm and the Good Companion Bakery in Ferrisburgh, Vermont, conceived the idea of building a 39-foot ...
Less than a month after more than 500 Addison County residents raised concerns about Phase 1 of the proposed 43-mile pipeline from Colchester to Middlebury, Vermont Gas Systems announced its plans for the implementation of “Phase 2.” Phase 2 would extend the pipeline from Middlebury to the International ...
What does it mean to be an adult? At what age do you turn old? How are we supposed to deal with the passage of time? Twenty-three Middlebury first-year and sophomores spent the weekend exploring these questions in this year’s first-year show, “Life Under 30.” This weekend’s performance marked ...
Student organizers of the Middlebury MothUP have partnered with the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts to produce a high-caliber, curated storytelling event geared towards the larger College community. “Cocoon: Stories of Metamorphosis” will take place at the MCA Concert Hall on Friday, ...
If you walk onto the stage in Wright Theater between now and late November, you will see black and gray floor panels attached in a grid-like pattern to form the foundation for the upcoming production of “Pentecost.” What you may not realize is that the exact same flooring travelled to Atlantic Stage ...