To Learn Is to Remember
Jesse Bowman Bruchac, director of the School of Abenaki, writes about the role of memory in learning and teaching a language, as well as different strategies for strengthening language memory.
Stories
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Show Some Love to Sharks
The new Monterey Bay White Sharks website is part of a larger mission to demystify, conserve, and spotlight how majestic—and central to the ocean ecosystem—white sharks are.
Newly Discovered Frost Poem
“Nothing New,” which Robert Frost wrote in 1918, has been published for the first time in The New Yorker.
Too Busy Blurbing Books
For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job.
Highlighting Hidden History
A team of Middlebury undergraduate and graduate students published an article in Sea History that highlighted the little-known history of the Japanese-American abalone fishery in Monterey Bay.
Energy and the Planet
The University of Alaska Fairbanks highlighted one of its arctic energy research fellows, Kristen Watkins ’23.5.
Highest-Scoring Panther
Earlier in January, basketball player Alexa Mustafaj ’25 became the first Panther regardless of gender to eclipse the 2,000 career-point mark.
New Tricks for Your Mind
Research indicates that approaching your regular day with a new mindset can transform the daily grind, writes philosophy professor Lorraine Besser in The Conversation.
When Poetry Is Code
The Middlebury library acquired its first book of AI-generated poetry, I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks.