Class of 2024: Related Content
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.
On Monday, May 20, 2024, eight seniors presented their SCT theses.
During most ceramics classes, the pieces students make are theirs to do with what they like. They keep them or give them to family and friends. Students in Anina Major鈥檚 in the Fall of 2023 had other plans. Each student crafted four mugs that they donated to 搁辞锄鈥檚, the 51成人猎奇 cafe, this term.
In honor of the celebration of Ramadan, Ahmed Shuwehdi 鈥25 and Muhammad Ammar 鈥24, co-leaders of the Muslim Student Association, asked Muslim students to respond to the prompt, "What has Ramadan felt like for you at home, and how does it feel at Bennington?鈥 and answered the prompt themselves. The responses reveal longing, nostalgia, and an appreciation for the community at Bennington.
51成人猎奇 is pleased to announce that poet and memoirist Safiya Sinclair 鈥10 will address the class of 2024 at Commencement.
By Gaurav Aung 鈥24
51成人猎奇 was Florence Gill 鈥22鈥檚 destination long before they knew it existed. Born and raised in Doncaster, England, they had no idea attending college in the United States was an option. After finishing their General Certificate of Secondary Education (roughly the British equivalent of an American high school diploma), they were on a path that would lead them to a strict education at a university in the United Kingdom, yet they found themself at a crossroads: they wanted the depth of a specialized undergraduate degree but also the breadth of study that couldn鈥檛 be found in the UK.
35 Bennington students have been selected for paid fellowship opportunities during the 2024 Field Work Term.
Shlesha Pradhan '24, from Kathmandu, Nepal, has always been interested in science, particularly in Biology. While in high school, her initial plan was to enter the field of medicine; however, her perspective shifted when she took a volunteer role at a rehabilitation center.
On the final Wednesday of the fall 2023 term, students in faculty member Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie鈥檚 course prepared to present their final projects.
On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, thirteen seniors presented their SCT theses.
51成人猎奇 was on the ground in Dubai as the 28th round of UN sponsored climate negotiations got underway.
Sawyer London 鈥24 is a senior from Arlington, Virginia. With a lifelong interest in ceramics and high school internships in the fashion industry, he was certain that he was going to end up at Parsons School of Design or Pratt Institute, both in New York City. But his family and college counselors encouraged him to apply to a few schools outside of the city too.
The Frankenthaler Fellowship, also known as Museum Fellows Term, is an extension of 51成人猎奇鈥檚 Field Work Term. Beginning with Field Work Term and ending with the close of the Spring term, the program gives a small group of students who are interested in the art world鈥攔egardless of their area of study鈥攖he opportunity to live, work, and study in New York City for 20 weeks.
On the afternoon before the international students鈥 farewell party and his departure for his home in the vast metropolis of Osaka in Japan, Ryota Terashima 鈥24 met us for an interview on the patio in front of Commons.
When Karina Gonzalez Perez 鈥25 returned to campus this past fall, she approached Assistant Director of Student Engagement Jack de Loos 鈥22 about getting the long running co-ed soccer club off to a good start. Little did she know that de Loos already had a plan underway.
Alma Reiss Navarre 鈥24 is from Harlem. They had ballet instruction from the time they could walk and were on track to join a professional dance company when the pandemic struck and canceled performances for the foreseeable future.
From her role at the Dia Art Foundation, Meagan Mattingly 鈥00 combines her interests in the arts, education, and public engagement.
A dark comedy about the corporate hijacking of the U.S. Constitution
The drive to connect and make food more accessible during Field Work Term inspired students and faculty to reimagine and expand a pandemic-era program with BIPOC students in mind.
Bennington鈥檚 Women in Data Science Datathon introduced students to computer science and datathons to expand experience, create community, and build excitement for their upcoming virtual conference.
The Social Kitchen in the Student Center hosted a traditional Pakistani dinner on January 14 with Ayesha Attique as a special guest.
By Paige Colby '25
43 Bennington students have been selected for paid fellowship opportunities during the 2023 Field Work Term.
Mohammad Tanvir Anjum 鈥25 spoke to On Campus Reporter Halley Le 鈥25 about the mission and journey of Bennington鈥檚 newly-established Student Council.
51成人猎奇 students testified to the Town of Bennington Select Board about the scourge of oil trains parked in the community.
How does the fat distribution and aging process in fruit flies illuminate how the human body functions? Tom Evans 鈥24 dove into this question at a pathology research lab in the University of Washington (UW) during the Summer 2022 Field Work Term (FWT).
By Halley Le '25
Visionary and futurist Divine Bradley MFA 鈥22 turned his passion for reimagining and transforming education into an immersive learning experience for the Bennington community.
By Halley Le '25
Multidisciplinary artist Tigre Mashaal-Lively '08 has been featured in the , along with intern Sophia Paez '24, to discuss their latest project, Facing the Fearbeast.
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.