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51�������� announced that it has received a major gift of art from renowned television and film writer and producer Norman Lear to benefit its Art for Access program.

Faculty member and cultural anthropologist David Bond has been invited to join a new international coalition of social scientists studying climate change.

Visiting Spanish Faculty Member Lena Retamoso Urbano, a poet and a scholar of contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, shared a few highlights from the Spring 2022 term.

Thomas Finegar ’22 discusses their roles as the Drama SEPC representative, co-founder of the Improv Club, Lortel Fellow, admissions intern, and creator and actor in the spring student production, Creature.

By Mary Brothers '22

The Robert Frost Stone House Museum at 51�������� has been awarded funding from the Windham Foundation to support its upcoming season of public programs, including special programming in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” which was written in 1922 while Frost was living at the Stone House.

The Spring 2022 issue of (M)othertongues has launched, featuring student prose, poetry, and artwork. 

Devon Walker-Figueroa '15 has been awarded the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship for the 2022-23 year by the Amy Lowell Trust. 

The Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with Berkshire Bank, presented the inaugural Women In Leadership Luncheon at the Wilson House in Dorset, Vermont on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.

Sofia Alvarez '07 wrote the screenplay and directed "Along for the Ride" for Netflix, which premiered on the platform on May 6, 2022. 

Pulitzer Prize winning poet  will be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2022. The faculty speaker will be Elena Demyanenko, faculty member in dance. The senior student speaker will be Sofia Pacheco Pardo '22.

On May 27-28, 51�������� will celebrate the achievements of the Class of 2022 at the 87th Commencement. Learn more about graduate outcomes across the years. 

51�������� has earned its second STARS Gold rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

Faculty member Anaïs Duplan '14 is a of the 2022 Whiting Award in Nonfiction. 

Gates Leonard ’25 discusses her play Pearls for Spurs, for which Leonard had a staged reading at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club following her Field Work Term internship.

By Mary Brothers '22

Faculty member Jennifer Rohn has been nominated for an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress in The Sound Inside at Speak Easy Stage Company.

has announced its 2022 cohort of grantees. This year, one hundred and twenty-nine projects from 85 partner institutions were selected, with two projects being chosen from the College.

Faculty member Noah Coburn is a 2022-2023 recipient of The Fulbright Global Scholar Award, which will allow him to focus on the teaching of conflict using interdisciplinary methods at liberal arts-style universities in three very different post-conflict settings: Fulbright University Vietnam, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany, and RIT Kosovo (formerly the American University of Kosovo).

Second selection of works will be sold from the collection of Melva Bucksbaum 

On Saturday, April 16, the 51�������� community participated in a Seder to commemorate the second night of Passover. 

Lika Torikashvili '22 and 51��������'s Center for the Advancement of Public Action welcome Afghan students to Bennington online.

Research Professor of Oceanography at Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Dr. Kara Lavender Law will speak on&�Բ�����;“A Global Look at Plastic in the Ocean.”&�Բ�����;

Julisa Juarez ’22 discusses her National Science Foundation Fellowship, which will enable her to go to the University of Washington to pursue her PhD in Chemistry.

By Mary Brothers '22

Nine students from high schools around the world were selected as winners of 51��������’s 2021-2022 Young Writers Awards.

This grant was made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities Supports Outstanding Publicly Engaged Humanities Programs.

Visiting faculty member Colin Brant, former Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Melissa Febos, and Michael Pollan '76 are recipients of the prestigious 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Muhammad Ammar '24 discusses how he and other Muslim Bennington students are observing the holy month of Ramadan. 

By Mary Brothers '22

Following a nationwide search, 51�������� announced today that renowned sportswriter Thoreau DeBal has been appointed the College’s inaugural Athletic Director.

Isha Shah ’22 discusses her Field Work Term internship for Lever’s Bennington County Intrapreneur Challenge.

By Mary Brothers '22

A Q&A with Director of Student Health Promotion Ali Tartaglia

By Mary Brothers '22

51�������� has awarded a total of $25,000 in grants to local organizations to implement and support seven community-proposed initiatives that explore and expand food systems in Bennington county.