Arts, Language, Culture

Nuclear Possibilities

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-19T12:44:41-0500

The film House of Dynamite depicts what happens when U.S. leaders have 30 minutes to respond to a nuclear attack.

Century-Old Farm Stories

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-19T12:42:37-0500

After she was given two farmers’ early 20th-century diaries, Kathryn Youngdahl-Stauss, MA ’15, MLitt ’23, decided to make a film about the mother-son pair.

Reproductive Rights in Vermont

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-19T12:42:32-0500

Several Middlebury faculty members are behind and in front of the camera in the documentary Unintended, which explores Vermont’s historic move to enshrine reproductive rights in its constitution in 2022.

Science Writing Award

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-19T12:42:24-0500

Journalist Lois Parshley ’11 has been recognized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for her reporting on the intersection of science, politics, and community in Alaska.

Support for Determined Learners

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-19T12:42:14-0500

In 2023, Taniya Noori ’25.5 founded a remote tutoring service to support Afghan women and girls who are now banned from schools under Taliban rule.

Literature for Peace

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-12T15:27:56-0500

Writer and journalist Lauren Markham ’05 is the nonfiction runner-up of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book A Map of Future Ruins.

Lessons of Cancer and Flame

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-12T15:27:50-0500

In a New York Times essay, Dan O’Brien ’96 draws parallels between the health fallout of the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and of the Palisades fire in Los Angeles.

Art Revelations

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-12T14:26:48-0500

Artist Jordan Nassar ’07 questions the meanings given to ancient relics or historical crafts in a new exhibition at the James Cohan Gallery.

Landscape of Empty Coal Wagons

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-12T14:26:35-0500

Alexandra Fuller ’99 recently opened Abandon, an art installation that explores the relationship between coal mining and the landscape in the American West.

Haunted by History

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-12T14:26:25-0500

The novel Flashlight by Susan Choi has been long-listed for the 2025 Booker Prize.