Middlebury Evacuated its School in Cameroon. Was it the Right Decision?
By NICK GARBER
May 9, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
Four students studying abroad in Middlebury’s school in Yaoundé, Cameroon, received a cryptic message from the program’s director, asking them to meet for dinner at the home of one of their host families.
‘Let There Be Dance’: Senior Dance Theses Dazzle
By JOHN VAALER
May 9, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
“Chosen Family,” — the senior dance thesis that Caleb Green ’19, Lucy Grinnan ’19.5 and Maggie Phillips ’19 put on at the Dance Theater in the Mahaney Center for the Arts rocketed beyond the gray solar system of human predictability.
‘American Idiot’: Dark and Electrifying
May 9, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
“American Idiot” electrifies, captivates and moves you.
Illimité: Student Start-Up Supports Entrepreneurs with Micro-Loans
May 9, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
Illimité is a clothing and novelty item brand created by Lopez in 2019 as a platform to support entrepreneurs in developing countries across the world.
Film Department Honors Its Founder, Professor Ted Perry
May 9, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
If you have taken a course in the Film & Media Culture Department, enjoyed a movie on the big screen in Dana Auditorium or snuck into Axinn 232 on a Friday night with some friends, you should thank Ted Perry.
Gensler Family Symposium Engages With the ‘Complex and Peculiar Lives of Intersectionality’
May 2, 2019
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“What exactly is intersectionality?” — this was one of many questions posed at last week's Gensler Symposium, which featured talks by several prominent scholars in feminist and queer studies.
Photos: Nocturne Embraces the Night
May 2, 2019
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The Nocturne Arts Festival transformed a variety of locations across campus into art installations and music venues. The second annual Nocturne included music, poetry, food, dance, theater, film, arts and more, from Mead Chapel to the Knoll.
A Conversation With Writer Lore Segal
May 2, 2019
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Lore Segal’s book “The Journal I Didn’t Keep” holds the rare sort of eager silence most often found when reading to awestruck children
Reel Critic: ‘Too Late to Die Young’
May 2, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
“Tarde Para Morir Joven” is set in the summer of 1990, in a newly democratic Chile shortly after the fall of the dictatorship
The Librarian Is In
By BRENDA ELLIS
May 2, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
May is mental health awareness month, so I’ve selected a CD in our collection called “Mental Illness” by my favorite artist, Aimee Mann.
A Peek Into the ‘Coolest Atoms in Vermont’
By APRIL QIAN
April 25, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
Goodsell’s study of the laser-cooling of atoms began as an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College and continued into her graduate and post-doctoral research at Harvard.
Hurricane Sandy Brings Sisters Together in ‘Violet Sisters’ Play
April 25, 2019
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'The Violet Sisters' show relatable circumstances that make us ask ourselves how far we are willing to go and what we are willing to give up to pursue our dreams.
