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The Foreign Student
A journalist embarks on a voyage into the unknown. I started studying French two years ago. I was 36, and it had dawned on me that there was something embarrassing about the fact that I was...
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Wild Moose Chase
In search of Vermont’s most mysterious creature I tumbled headlong down the hillside once, twice, three times before landing in a heap of snow beside Ky Koitzsch, a wildlife biologist from in...
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Laurie L. Patton Named Next President of Middlebury
The Middlebury Board of Trustees today named Laurie L. Patton, dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the Robert F. Durden Professor of Religion, as Middlebury’s next...
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Antoinette Rangel Is Having the Time of Her Life
She knows it sounds excessively earnest, but Antoinette Rangel ’09 tells her colleagues, “It’s been a pleasure to serve the American people with you today!” every evening before leaving the White...
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Run to the Roar
Around 300 or so years after the word courage first gained foothold in the lexicon (it was spelled corage in Middle English and curage in Old French), Milton wrote, in Paradise Lost, the words...
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Under Pressure
One year ago, in November 2013, following Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden reversal on a pro-European treaty, thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets to protest his decision and,...
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The Liebowitz Years: Leading with Conviction
How Middlebury’s 16th president shaped the institution. Few things reveal a college president’s values and priorities more visibly than financial hardship. When a global economic recession began in...
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Code Breaker
Geneticist Heidi Rehm ’93 is at the forefront of a genetic revolution in medicine, which may eventually lead to personalized care based on individual DNA. In 1998, Mark Dunning’s daughter was born...
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The Liebowitz Years: A Vision Realized
The special partnership that preserved Bread Loaf for the ages. In 1915, when Joseph Battell died and willed his expanse of lands along the spine of the Green Mountains to Middlebury College, he...
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On the Hunt
For 72 hours in late January, a campus becomes consumed with the unusual. Ten hooded figures crept across West Cemetery, the small graveyard along Route 30 and across from the Mahaney Center for the...
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The Business of Beer
Making a living brewing craft beer requires precision, science, business savvy, and more than a touch of zaniness. It’s Friday evening, right around happy-hour time, but Evan Williams ’08 looks more...
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Modern Love
Increasingly discouraged by her failure to engage in a committed relationship in college, a young woman decided to explore the topic at greater depth in her senior thesis. She found out that she was...
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The Art of Birds
In his natural history courses, Professor Stephen Trombulak has been using a 19th-century ornithological collection ever since he discovered the treasure buried in the far reaches of an overcrowded...
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Cover Essay: Waiting in the Wings
The story of this ornithological teaching collection goes back roughly 130 years to the mid-1880s, when a couple of Addison County teenagers, Chester Parkhill and Albert Mead, became interested in...
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A Tale of Two Writers
Jay Parini owes his friendship with Gore Vidal to a stranger’s hospitality. Planning a sabbatical for the spring of 1986, Parini mentioned to then Italian Professor Ugo Skubikowski that he wanted to...
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We Cannot Afford to Walk Away
I grew up in a one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx with my two sisters and immigrant mother. On our stoop, neighbors socialized and celebrated with barbecues, domino games, and merengue dancing. These...
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The Life and Times of Rick Hodes
A memory Rick Hodes ’75 has from early in his career doesn’t arise often, but when it does, it returns in the same vivid detail. It’s 1985, and he’s standing among hundreds of gaunt, emaciated people...
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What It Means to Be Kelly Brush
A decade removed from a ski-racing accident that left her paralyzed, a young woman navigates a new course. Were this a true celebrity profile, one of those longform pieces you’d read in Vanity Fair...
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Can a Place Like Aspen Go Green?
In a posh resort town where private jets zip in and out, Matthew Hamilton ’95 has an answer for all the skeptics out there. On a February morning at Aspen Highlands, Matthew Hamilton ’95 makes fast...
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The Research Paradigm
In the days following last year’s terrorist attacks in Paris—first in January on the Charlie Hebdo offices and then the horrific events of November 13 that left 130 people dead—many national media...
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