Middlebury College News

Last fall, a Middlebury College political scientist gave a talk at UVM on the proliferation of private security contractors - with mention of their growing presence in Afghanistan.

Clean, accessible sources of energy could help solve two huge problems around the world: poverty and pollution.

Half the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and Iraq is made up not of soldiers, marines, and airmen but of private contractors.

If you think high school seniors are lazily waiting until after Christmas to apply to college, think again.

More than a dozen Middlebury College students were issued civil and in a handful of cases criminal citations in an underage drinking party raid on Quarry Road late last week.

The dynamic and youthful string sensation, Pavel Haas Quartet, will perform in the Concert Hall of the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts at Middlebury College on Friday, Nov.

With one Democrat saying he is 99.9 percent sure he will run for governor and four others already in the race, the behind-the-scenes political jockeying begins.

Vermonters have heard the advertisements. Republican Dede Scozzafava is a "typical Albany politician," one ad claims.

Clusters of plump, wine-red Empire apples hang from sagging boughs, yearning to be picked.

I believe in the laws of nature, the power of people and our capacity for innovation and leadership.

Much of the focus this campaign season has been on the mayoral race. But there's also a high-stakes contest on the City Council.

Special guest speaker, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, an alumnus of Middlebury College, will appear at the 2009 Vermont Republican Party Fall Fundraising Dinner, Thursday, Nov.

On Saturday, October 24, activists in more than 170 nations participated in rallies, religious services, concerts, workshops and lectures to raise awareness of climate change.

At least two ferries will now bring people across Lake Champlain for free while Vermont and New York decide what to do about the Champlain Bridge.

The frontrunner in Uruguay's presidential election Sunday is a former guerilla commander who once sought to bring a socialist revolution to this South American nation.

How many human bodies does it take to configure "350" when you're planning on an aerial photograph and you don't have quite that many people? About half worked just fine Saturday afternoon on the second-floor roof-garden lawn at the Davis Center.

Alan Gussow,Ice Brittled Branches, 1978,Oil on canvas,58 1/2 x 66 inches, NEW YORK, NY.- Babcock Galleries presents a much-anticipated exhibition in conjunction with the release of the first monograph of Alan Gussow's work, Alan Gussow: A Painter's Nature.

A A A' In an Oct. 18 story about Middlebury College experimenting with willow as a biomass fuel, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of a nonprofit that promotes biofuels.

The timely book launch of "Wushu Moon Magic" with this year's full harvest moon marks a new author's fiction debut.

Even though Monday's formal grand opening ceremony for Southbridge's Quinsigamond Community College campus was being held in a still-unfinished room, college officials are already predicting they'll need more space next year.