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 us a line at middmag@middlebury.edu .
- The 96th session of Middlebury’s Language Schools concluded last Friday with the conferring of degrees and a speech by NPR President Vivian Schiller, MA Russian ‘85. The week prior, the Bread Loaf School of English held its commencement ceremony up in Ripton.
- Barbara Hofer, an associate professor of psychology at Middlebury, recently appeared on CBS’s The Early Show, where she talked about her new book, The iConnected Parent.
- The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference is in full swing. Readings are held each afternoon and evening and are open to the public. If you can’t make it to the Mountain, you can listen to recordings on Middlebury’s iTunesU channel.
- Thanks to a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Middlebury will be getting a new vessel for student-faculty research on Lake Champlain.
- We recently stumbled on a cool photography site, “Documenting Middlebury,” created by Isaac Sadaqah ‘11.
- Did you know that the College has a plum tree on campus? We didn’t either.