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Newly appointed Drama faculty member Shawtane Bowen shares his journey coming to Bennington and his experience of life on campus.

By Halley Le '25

Located just three hours from Boston and New York, 51�������� is not only surrounded by the beautiful Green Mountains, but also by a vibrant arts scene. Whether you’re living on campus or visiting for a tour, if you feel like taking a short, scenic drive to one of the region’s vibrant art galleries, here’s a roundup to get you started.

Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Eula Biss has been selected as a 2023 New America National Fellow.

Lika Torikashvili '22, a former UN Youth Representative of Georgia, has co-organized a series of roundtable discussions with UNFPA and UNESCO in Afghanistan on Online Education through her non-profit,

How can parents of infants notice the early markers for autism? Can early identification lead to better care down the road? 

By Halley Le '25

Visionary and futurist Divine Bradley MFA ’22 turned his passion for reimagining and transforming education into an immersive learning experience for the Bennington community.

By Halley Le '25

Environmentalist, educator, and founder and CEO of ECO City Farms, Margaret Morgan-Hubbard ’67 has been named the 2022 recipient of 51��������’s Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award.

U.S. News and The Princeton Review 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.

51�������� announced today that it has been recognized as a top performer in sustainability by the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), ranked number three in energy on their (SCI). 

51�������� welcomed a robust and diverse class of 234 new first-year and transfer students this fall.

The College is pleased to announce that Jane Burkhardt ’62 has made a gift to establish two endowed scholarships in Literature and Philosophy.

The Robert Frost Stone House Museum has been featured in several publications highlighting the best things to do while in Vermont.

For HuffPost, Vermont State Sen. Brian Campion and CAPA Director of Public Policy Programs, shares how he helped guarantee that Vermont schoolchildren all have access to local, fresh foods for the 2022-23 school year.

On August 18, 51�������� President Laura Walker sent the following message to the Bennington community:

a short story by Bruna Dantas Lobato '15, has been published in the The New Yorker. 

On August 10, President Laura Walker shared the following message with the Bennington Community:

For the 25th anniversary of the  (NBOSS), Technical Instructor in Visual Arts John Umphlett MFA '99 will do a live performance, Flipping One Over a Bush, first performed 22 years ago at the third NBOSS in 2000.

Kim Cooper, an MFA student in fiction, has been selected to be the ninth Residential Teaching Fellow at . 

Devon Walker-Figueroa '15 is the recipient of the 25th Annual for her poetry collection Philomath.

This fall, Bennington welcomes nine new full-time faculty members to the College.

For The New Yorker, Luke Mogelson '05 covers the tragic stories of ordinary people caught in the front lines of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. 

Faculty member and cultural anthropologist David Bond has just published a new book, Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment (University of California Press). 

Recording engineer Bella Blasko '11 in Tape Op to discuss her influences, recording on tour, and being a positive force in the music industry.

William Neale '17 is among the first Peace Corps volunteers to return to overseas service since the agency’s unprecedented global evacuation in March 2020.

The has been awarded the 2022 Whiting Foundation’s Literary Magazine Prize.

Senior fellow and visiting faculty member Beyond Plastics president Judith Enck has been featured in Forbes to discuss , shifting the waste reduction burden from the consumer to the producers, and the crucial need to hold companies accountable.

Faculty member Marguerite Feitlowitz has just published a of "Four Poems from Night" by Chilean poet Ennio Moltedo for Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature. 

Faculty member Noah Coburn, along with Abdul Khabir Saber and Malvika Dang '24, shared what they learned about teaching students from and about Afghanistan despite Taliban restrictions that have stifled education in the country.

Brooklyn Poets Dabin Jeong '21 as their Poet of the Week for July 4–10, 2022.

Music faculty member Allen Shawn has been featured on The Jewish Lives Podcast to discuss the music and artistic life of Leonard Bernstein.