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On Saturday, June 1, 2024, 122 members of 51成人猎奇鈥檚 Class of 2024 gathered, along with their family members and friends, faculty, staff, and leadership on a green expanse of lawn at the southern end of campus to receive their degrees.
On May 31 and June 1, 51成人猎奇 will celebrate the achievements of the Class of 2024 at the 89th Commencement. Learn more about graduate outcomes across the years.
The Spring 2024 issue of (m)othertongues has launched, featuring student works in prose, poetry, and the visual arts.
Nine stories about the visual arts graduates and their final work in 100 words or less.
On May 17 and 18, Bennington's Prison Education Initiative (PEI) gathered together a small group to engage in conversation around access and opportunities to higher education for people serving life or virtual life sentences in America.
On Monday, May 20, 2024, eight seniors presented their SCT theses.
Those who knew Reginald Shepherd and those who know his work shared their insights at the 2024 Ben Belitt Colloquium on Arts and Literary Culture.
Winston Foundation grant funds $1,000 prizes for three students.
Max Harvey-Wilson 鈥23 had the desire to learn Japanese and study in Japan since high school.
Will Parker '26 studies Acting in Theater at Bennington. During the 2024 Field Work Term, Parker worked at in New York City.
Poet and Memoirist Safiya Sinclair 鈥10, author of the memoir a National Book Critics Circle Award Winner and one of the most notable books of the year according to the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, TIME Magazine, and many others, will address the 89th graduating class at the conferring of degrees on Saturday, June 1. We connected with her to learn more about her time at Bennington and how it influenced her career.
Roberta Martey 鈥25 studies Politics and Psychology at Bennington. She has a particular interest in Black Diasporic Studies and Environmental Advocacy and integrated her academic knowledge into a practical setting during her FWT at .
On Tuesday, April 23, around ninety Jewish and non-Jewish people from every constituency鈥攕tudents, faculty, staff, administration, members of local Jewish congregations, and community members鈥攇athered in the Student Center and took seats around a gigantic ring of white-clothed tables with careful place settings for a Passover Seder.
At Bennington, Jos茅 Rub茅n Ruiz Garrido '26 studies Drama with a focus on Acting and Stage Design. During his Field Work Term experience as a Lucille Lortel Fellow at , he gained a new approach to theater and a different perspective on the arts.
51成人猎奇 documented its observation of 2024 total solar eclipse, including a class about the eclipse with astronomy faculty member Hugh Crowl and a trip north to take students into the center of the path of totality.
Tisa Shrestha '26 studies Architecture at Bennington and supplements her Plan with coursework in Mathematics and Environmental Studies. During the 2024 Field Work Term, Shrestha worked at (LI-BIRD), a Nepal-based NGO that supports the sustainable management of natural resources in support of smallholder farmers.
On a chilly early spring day at Purple Carrot Farm, Lilliana Kelly 鈥25 took a break from the crew repositioning a silage tarp to recount her history with the place.
Mehedi Sizar '25 studies Mathematics and Computer Science at Bennington, but he also has a personal passion for protecting the environment. His experience as a 2024 Endeavor Foundation Environmental Action Fellow allowed him to return to his birthplace of Bagmara, Rajshahi, Bangladesh to work with , the largest environmental group in Bangladesh.
The American writer and political activist Alice Walker said 鈥淎ctivism is my rent for living on the planet.鈥 This could have been the theme for this year鈥檚 Endeavor Environmental Action Fellowship.
BENNINGTON, VT鈥 At 8:00 pm Thursday, May 2, Professor from the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University of Vermont, will give a lecture covering the latest climate change science coming out of the 2023 National Climate Assessment and the implementation of Vermont鈥檚 first ever Climate Action Plan, which was adopted in December 2021. The event, this year鈥檚 Robert H. Woodworth Lecture in the Sciences, is free and open to the public. It is scheduled for the Tishman Lecture Hall, which is labeled #3 on the campus map.
On the second Monday before opening night, rehearsal for this term鈥檚 faculty production鈥Sweat by Lynn Nottage鈥攕tarted with a fight. Student actors executed a choreographed-but-believable series of punches and holds. They threw each other across the barroom set while the assistant stage manager and fight captain Tennyson Perkins 鈥26 took careful notes to deliver to the breathless actors at the end of the scene.
Then they did it again. And again. And again. Each time, they incorporated Perkins鈥檚 tweaks, and each time, the action was clearer and cleaner.
Ananda Zammaron Carbajal '26 studies Dance and Drama at Bennington, with a particular focus on acting and stage management. She spent her 2024 Field Work Term interning at , a film production company founded by Bryn Mooser 鈥01.
As early as their first year at Bennington, acting, music, and creative writing student and Sutton Trust Scholar Miriam Campbell 鈥26 heard people in their classes talking about the Lucille Lortel Fellowship.
Recognizing this urgent moment for American higher education and our democracy, 51成人猎奇 is joining sixty other college presidents of diverse institutions from across the country to advance higher education鈥檚 pivotal role in preparing students to be engaged citizens and to uphold free expression on campus.
Paulo Araujo 鈥26 was home in Mozambique in 2019, the year two powerful cyclones, the most destructive in decades, hit the country within just a few weeks. It was the first time in recorded history two strong tropical cyclones struck in the same season. The storms killed 603 people, injured more than 1,500, and put 2.5 million people in need of humanitarian services.
