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The Princeton Review and the U.S. News released their rankings for the top colleges in America, with Bennington featured on lists for Most Innovative Schools, Green Colleges, Great Professors, Great Classroom Experiences, and more.

Performer, healthcare clown, and Healthy Humor co-founder is the 2021 recipient of 51��������’s Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award.

51�������� is thrilled to be one of the inaugural recipients of the . Launched by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in partnership with Rocky Mountain Institute and Environment & Culture Partners, the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative advances the goal of carbon neutrality across the visual arts.

51�������� has received a $300,000 two-year grant from the , which will support restructuring the academic leadership team to strengthen the student experience.

Following a vote at the May Board of Trustees meeting, 51�������� is pleased to announce that Gabriela Yadegari ’21 will be serving a two-year term on the College’s Board.

While on sabbatical, Music faculty member Nick Brooke has been a Fellow at the in Liguria, Italy. 

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Bennington Writing Seminars alum Albert Abonado MFA '10 and faculty member Phillip B. Williams will receive Creative Writing Fellowships of $25,000. 

Cardiologist, author, documentarian, and patient advocate Dr. Jennifer H. Mieres ’82 is the 2020 recipient of 51��������’s Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award.

The renovation of the 51�������� Commons, completed in Fall 2019,  a 2021 AIA Honor Award by the American Institute of Architects, New York (AIANY).

51�������� alum Asad J. Malik '19 and Bennington Writing Seminars alum Morgan Jerkins MFA '16 have been selected as 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees.

On November 16, President Laura Walker at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation's Restore Brooklyn Virtual Gala.

Nico Amador MFA '22, a second-term MFA student in poetry, has been selected to be the fifth Residential Teaching Fellow at the Bennington Writing Seminars.

The Bennington Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that  is the recipient of the Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets. He will begin his studies in January 2021. 

51�������� has received a $75,000 grant from The Endeavor Foundation, which has been used to provide financial aid relief for students who are facing financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Carmen Giménez Smith has been awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship for “distinguished poetic achievement,”

Science faculty member Tim Schroeder was recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency with a Regional Environmental Award for his participation in the Vermont Aquifer Characterization Team. 

51�������� has received a $25,000 Presidential Grant for Alternate Academic Delivery from the , which will support both the technology upgrades necessary for the Fall 2020 term’s pivot to a hybrid model blending in-person and remote instruction, as well as the continuation of a faculty pedagogical workshop series that focuses on hybrid teaching techniques.

Literature faculty member Phillip B. Williams as a 2020-21 Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Following a vote at the May Board of Trustees meeting, 51�������� is pleased to announce that Mareme Dieng ’20 will be serving a two-year term on the College’s Board.

From 113 entries received from students around the country, Rachel Huang from Flushing, Queens, NY; Athena Tumbelekis from Geneva, NY; and Artley Whipple from Orinda, CA have been selected as winners of the Earth Day poster contest.

Multimedia artist Nigel Poor ’86 and poet Mary Ruefle '74 have been announced as finalists for the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes.

Brian Michael Murphy  a $6,000 summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Faculty member J Blackwell ’95, Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Jenny Boully, past BWS commencement speaker Garth Greenwell, and Helen Mirra '91 are recipients of the prestigious 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship.

51��������'s Student Health Center was featured on the cover of the April 2020 issue of the Journal of American College Health.

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Marguerite Feitlowitz will receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500. This Fellowship will support the translation into English of two books  by Chilean poet Ennio Moltedo.

When Brian Vu ’16 was a student at Bennington, he studied Dance and Ceramics, two complementary fields that appealed to him in physical and tangible ways.

PEN America interviewed Davin Malasarn MFA '20 and Monica Carter MFA '20, both past recipients of the Bennington/PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship, for The PEN Ten weekly interview series.

On September 22, Peter Dinklage ’91 for his fourth Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama win.

Educator, composer, and instrument-builder ’81 is the 2019 recipient of 51��������’s Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award. 

51�������� has been awarded a grant of $1 million from the to launch a three-year collaborative effort with local partners to address the systemic causes of food insecurity in Bennington County.