Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of May 13
Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.
Dispatches
Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of May 6
Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.
Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of April 29
Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.
The Enigma of Alan Turing
Mathematics professor Michael Olinick presented the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture about Alan Turing—the scientist who broke Germany's codes during World War II and ushered in the era of computer science, before his early death from cyanide poisoning.
Things That Happened, Things To Do—Week of April 22
Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.
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Brainpower in Action: 2013 Spring Student Symposium
More than 350 students shared the culmination of their research at the seventh annual Spring Student Symposium.
The Conundrum of Jewish Identity
At the Quint Lectureship in Jewish Studies, an historian from Brandeis University traced the American-Jewish experience over the past 70 years.
Things That Happened, Things to Do — Week of April 15
Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon. As always, we hope to call your attention to items that captured ours and alert you to events that you won’t want to miss. If you have a news item that you think we’d be interested in, ... [more]
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Academe: Science on the Brain
Find out what Obama's recently announced Brain Initiative means to some students and faculty.
Things That Happened, Things To Do – Week of April 8
Construction of the Solar Decathlon house, national news coverage, Real Food Week, and two symposia top our summary of Middlebury College activities this week.
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Solar Decathlon ’13 Team Kicks Off Spring Construction
Students, faculty, staff, and the community got a first look at SD13's solar-powered home this week.
Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of April 1
Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon. As always, we hope to call your attention to items that captured ours and alert you to events that you won’t want to miss. If you have a news item that you think we’d be interested in, drop ... [more]
Hope and (Climate) Change
What are the Obama Administration's grades for environmental policy? Middlebury's Stafford Professor in Public Policy has the floor.
Adapting to Life in China
When Associate Professor Hang Du discovered a lack of data about study-abroad programs in China, she went to Hangzhou to observe Middlebury students for a semester.
Street Smarts
What keeps residents driving around town instead of biking or walking to school, work, and errands? What could change those habits? Four seniors have answers.
Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of March 18
Middlebury Magazine's team recaps recent goings-on at the College and looks ahead to events on the horizon.
Eight Minutes. $3,000.
That’s pretty much what it boiled down to last week when MiddChallenge gave 17 student groups a very brief opportunity to explain why their business, outreach, or arts venture deserved one of its six cash awards.
Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of 3/11
Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.
Small Paintings Tell a Big Story
For a European historian like Paul Monod, one of the College Museum's most-recent acquisitions is a treasure trove into the past.
Sights and Sounds of a Championship Day
Wednesday morning marked the start of the 2013 NCAA Championships for both alpine and Nordic skiing, hosted this year by Middlebury.
Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of 3/4
Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.
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Drawing On the Wall
Students in an art history course brought a Sol LeWitt wall drawing to life at the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
Things That Happened, Things To Do: Week of February 25
Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon
Fracking: A Tale of Two Countries
Journalist Dimiter Kenarov '03.5 has covered plenty of difficult stories, but none more complex than the political and environmental dynamics of hydraulic fracturing.
How Students Learn
Faculty members offered insight into how students learn during an open conversation on the future of the liberal arts.

