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Midd Moment: Season One

Podcasts

Midd Moment, Ep. 10 with Roy Heffernan ’78

Roy Heffernan '78 is an Owner-Partner and former Chief Operating Optimist for the apparel and accessory company Life is Good. He joins Laurie Patton to discuss his philosophy as an executive and how that meshed with a company known for its culture of optimism.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
December 16, 2019

Podcasts

Midd Moment, Ep. 9 featuring voices from Reunion Weekend

A mini-episode featuring a collage of voices from Reunion Weekend.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
December 10, 2019

Podcasts

Midd Moment, Ep. 8 with Firas Nasr ’15

Firas Nasr '15, founder of WERK for Peace, joins President Laurie Patton to discuss why they is not trying to change everyone’s mind and the importance of creating space for both anger and joy in activism.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
Photograph by Aaron Hedquist
December 2, 2019

Podcasts

Midd Moment, Ep. 7 with Jill Seaman ’74

Jill Seaman ’74, humanitarian doctor and recipient of the 2019 Alumni Achievement Award, joins President Laurie Patton to discuss her work in Bethel, Alaska, and South Sudan.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
November 18, 2019

Podcasts

Midd Moment, Ep. 6 with Koby Altman ’04

Cleveland Cavaliers General Manager Koby Altman '04 talks hoops, life, and the intersection of the two with Middlebury President Laurie Patton.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
November 11, 2019

Podcasts

Midd Moment, Ep. 5 with Adul Samon and Mr. Punnawit Thepsurin

In 2018 Adul Samon and his boys’ soccer team were rescued from a flooded Thai cave. During the rescue effort, Adul took on an unexpected leadership role as an interpreter. Last spring Adul was the inaugural recipient of Middlebury's Global Citizen's Award, and he and his teacher at the Band Wiang Phan School joined Laurie Patton to discuss, among other things, the power of language.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
November 4, 2019

Podcasts

Midd Moment, Ep. 4 with Bianca Giaever ’12.5

Bianca Giaever ’12.5 is a storyteller. She has produced audio pieces for This American Life and Radiolab; video pieces that have gone viral and won Emmys; and magazine pieces for The Believer and this humble publication. And her conversation—recorded just after Bianca finished her first summer of study at the Bread Loaf School of English—is a story all its own.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
October 28, 2019

Podcasts

Midd Moment, Ep. 3 with Temie Giwa-Tubosun MPA ’10

Temie Giwa-Tubosun, MPA ’10, discusses her work as the founder of LifeBank, a social enterprise that saves lives across Nigeria by efficiently delivering blood to labs and hospitals across the country.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
October 21, 2019

Podcasts

Midd Moment, Ep. 2 with Julia Alvarez ’71

Professor Emerita and Writer in Residence Julia Alvarez '71 joins President Laurie Patton to speak about the chorus of gatekeepers who punctuated her life; the freedom of failure; and the work of writing, in particular how it is a labor, not an identity.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
October 14, 2019
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Features

The Man Who Saw in Technicolor

Two years after his death, remembering Jason Spindler up close.

By Ellen Halle '13
Illustration by Vanessa Lovegrove
January 29, 2021

What’s The Deal?

The story behind the critically acclaimed podcast, hosted by Middlebury Institute professor Jeffrey Lewis, that tells you everything you need to know about the Iranian nuclear deal.

By Rhianna Tyson Kreger
Photo illustration by Paul Dahm
December 16, 2020

Hunger Fight

How two Middlebury alumni are building on the local food economy to help hungry Vermonters.

By Jessie Raymond '90
Photographs courtesy ShiftMeals
December 3, 2020

My COVID Road Trip

With their mother ailing, a writer and his brother hit the road for a cross country trek as a pandemic takes hold across the country.

By Charlie Tercek ’83
September 11, 2020

Dispatches

Whiskey*, with a Twist

What does it mean to create a line of craft spirits that hews tightly to sustainability practices? Will Drucker '08.5 thought he'd try and find out.

By Jessie Raymond '90
February 26, 2021

May I Have a Word?

During the pandemic, as the arts have struggled to stay relevant in a virtual world, one artistic director came up with a brilliant idea to showcase local talent.

By Sara Thurber Marshall
February 12, 2021

Otter Nonsense

Who had giant mutant otters on their 2020 Bingo card?

By Matt Jennings
Photograph by Daniel Houghton '04
December 17, 2020

Marble Works

How recycled stone from a College building has a second life in the local arts world.

By Jessie Raymond '90
Photograph by Todd Balfour
December 16, 2020

Home Schooled

With COVID restrictions temporarily halting normal campus activities such as in-person lectures, a pair of faculty members devised a digital alternative that should have a shelf life for years to come.

By Sara Thurber Marshall
Illustration by Harry Campbell
November 5, 2020

Home, Heart

A student-designed affordable home wins major architectural award

By Stephen Diehl
Photographs by Lindsay Selin Photography
October 8, 2020

Catching Up with Elise Morris

Our colleagues in Athletic Communications talk to the women's soccer player about one of higher education's most pressing issues: sexual assault prevention and awareness on college campuses.

By Ali Paquette
Photography by Ali Paquette
October 7, 2020

Since We Last Spoke: Hunter Sykes, MA IEP ’05

The latest in our new series, in which writers and subjects from magazine stories past reconnect, catch up, and reveal how their lives have unfolded . . . since they last spoke.

By Eva Gudbergsdottir
September 24, 2020

The Meaning of Alexander Twilight

We celebrate the 225th anniversary of Alexander Twilight's birth by continuing to examine his complex legacy.

By Matt Jennings
Photograph courtesy Middlebury Special Collections
September 23, 2020
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Pursuits

In the Line of Fire

What it's like to be a firefighter in California, when each emergency is more extreme than the last.

By John Devine
Illustration by Stuart Biers
February 12, 2021

Q&A

On the World Stage

Only a sophomore, Nordic skier Sophia Laukli makes her World Cup debut for the U.S. National team. We catch up with her to talk about the experience.

By Matt Jennings
Photograph by NordicFocus, GMBH
February 12, 2021

Editor’s Note

A Brilliant Fogg

Saying goodbye to a dear colleague and friend.

By Matt Jennings
Illustration by Jody Hewgill
February 25, 2020

Old Chapel

The Magnitude of Systemic Racism

Acknowledging a national scourge and examining the work that must be done at Middlebury— individually and collectively—to combat it.

By Laurie L. Patton
Illustration by Montse Bernal
June 9, 2020

Road Taken

Airlifted into Adulthood

A backcountry accident prepares the writer to stand on her own two feet.

By Krista Karlson ’17.5
Illustration by Jasu Hu
August 24, 2020

Quotation

A summer immersed in a language can do wonders, as veterans of Middlebury College’s famous language-learning program can attest. The lockdown is clearly going to amount to the equivalent of about two summers, and there are mini-Middleburys happening in millions of houses worldwide.”

—John McWhorter, writing “The Coronavirus Generation Will Use Language Differently” in the Atlantic.

Podcasts

Alone Together, Ep. 9 with Jessica St. Clair ’98 and Dan O’Brien ’96

Dan O'Brien ’96, a playwright and poet, and Jessica St. Clair ’98, a comedian and writer, join President Patton for our final check in with the community during COVID-19 self-isolation. Dan and Jessica are a true power couple in the arts that met in a Middlebury improv group. They discuss Dan's magazine essay "Life Shrinks: Lessons from Chemo Quarantine," how reopening the country feels a lot like remission, and how their art is evolving to reflect the pandemic.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
June 15, 2020

Alone Together, Ep. 8 with Dick Clay, Covid-19 Survivor

In this episode, Dick Clay, a student at the Bread Loaf School of English, shares his story of recovering from COVID-19. Dick discusses when the seriousness of the virus hit him, the "wilderness path to recovery," and how he will process this experience through writing.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
June 8, 2020

Alone Together, Ep. 7 with Jodie Keith and Jacque Bergevin, Essential Workers

In this episode, we hear from Jodie Keith and Jacque Bergevin, who have been working with custodial services to keep our Vermont campus safe and clean. Jodie and Jacque share what campus has been like since the students left: what it's like to schedule hourly sanitation of buildings, how every day feels like an empty Saturday morning, and that the infamous Middlebury squirrels have lost a bit of weight.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
Photography by Bob Handelman
June 1, 2020

Review

Lift Off

With her debut novel, Emily Temple '08 takes readers on a soaring, supernatural ride.

By Doug Wilhelm
Illustration by Nicole Xu
February 26, 2021

How Did You Get Here?

Megan Job

By Alexandra Burns '21
February 15, 2021

Leif Taranta

By Alexandra Burns '21
February 15, 2021

Mikayla Haefele

By Alexandra Burns '21
February 15, 2021

Videos

In the Blink of an Eye

Gone in less than a minute—the middle of June 2019 to the middle of June 2020, as viewed from the rooftop of the Mittelman Observatory.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
Video by Jonathan Kemp/Mittelman Observatory
June 10, 2020

All the Feels

Current students, alumni of all ages, parents, faculty, and staff come together to sing Middlebury's alma mater "Walls of Ivy."

By Chris Spencer
May 26, 2020

A (Virtual) Visit with Kenshin Cho ’20

Laurie Patton chats with the political science major and SGA treasurer, who has been unable to return to his native Tokyo.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
April 18, 2020
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