Middlebury Magazine

A Year in the Makerspace

In the 2025-26 academic year, students working in Middlebury's Makerspace designed and produced more than a dozen projects.

By Jessie Raymond '90
October 1, 2026

37 Minutes with Erin Quinn ’86

Few people, if any, have had a greater impact on Middlebury athletics than this former football captain, men’s lacrosse coach, and retiring director of athletics.

By Matt Jennings
Photograph by Oliver PariniJuly 28, 2026

Undamming Hope

Dam removals offer an opportunity for ecological reconnection. And a wild education.

By Tara Lohan ’99
Illustration by Sally DengJuly 22, 2026

The Memorial Trees

Finding beauty—and deeper meaning—on Middlebury's campus.

By Ruby Salisbury '27
Illustrations by Owen GentJuly 21, 2026

How Reunions Change

I haven’t always wanted to go. Now I do.

By Alison Osius ’80
Illustration by Aron LeahJuly 21, 2026

Em White Slows Down

How a photographer channels the 19th century to interpret the 21st.

By Matthew Jennings
Self portrait by Em White '13July 20, 2026

Common Sense

In a world riven with division and disconnection, a Vermont poet and farmer searches for the ties that bind.

By Lucas Farrell '03
Illustration by OyowJuly 19, 2026

Where the Toad Still Sings

In search of an endangered species, the last of its kind.

By Connor Wood '11
Illustration by Armando Veve/Photographs by Christian PondellaJuly 7, 2026

To Market

A student art market radiates joy, come rain or shine.

By Sara Thurber Marshall
Photograph by Sara Thurber MarshallMay 13, 2026

Fiddlin’ Around

American folk song traditions get a special spotlight in a Vermont Symphony Orchestra performance and archival display.

By Sara Thurber Marshall
April 8, 2026