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  • Bennington College Receives $1 Million from Devoted Alumna Judith Rosenberg Hoffberger ’54 (December 8, 2006)
    Lifelong philanthropist Judith Rosenberg Hoffberger, a native of Baltimore and an Aspen, CO, resident, recently pledged $1 million to her alma mater, Bennington College. [Read more.]


    Father of World Music Adam Rudolph Brings his Moving Pictures Octet to Bennington College (November 7, 2006)
    Renowned master of world music and ringleader of the transcendental "Moving Pictures" ensemble, Adam Rudolph, brings his octane-laden energetic octet to Bennington College on November 17, 2006. [Read more.]

    At Bennington, Renowned Political Consultants Disclose the Business Behind Democracy (November 6, 2006)
    Glenn Cowan, co-founder and CEO of Democracy International, and international campaign consultant Greg Minjack will discuss their experiences as international and national political strategists—which, for both, include advising U.S. presidential campaigns. [Read more.]

    Beyond the Looking Glass: Break, An Exhibition at Bennington College (November 2, 2006)
    Light, fractured glass, and poetry intertwine in verse-and-bullet-sidled shatterproof glass at Bennington College's latest exhibition. Break, a collaborative tapestry weaving the work of visual artist Katherine Jackson and poet David Weiss opens Wednesday, November 1, 2006 in the College's Usdan Gallery and will be on display until Saturday, December 2, 2006. [Read more.]

    Vermont State Poet Laureate Grace Paley to Close 2006 Frost Program Series at Bennington College (October 25, 2006)
    On Sunday, November 5, 2006, the "Sunday Afternoons with Robert Frost" program series will end at Bennington College with literary luminary Grace Paley, author of poetry, short stories, essays, and articles, as well as Vermont's state poet laureate. [Read more.]

    Iranian Professor of Women's Studies to Speak at Bennington College on the Role of Muslim Women in America (October 19, 2006)
    Distinguished Iranian writer and current Director of Studies in Women and Gender and Professor of Persian and Women Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Farzaneh Milani will present a talk in Bennington College's Barn 100 on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, at 7:00 pm. [Read more.]

    Judge Who Made Landmark Intelligent Design Ruling to Speak at Bennington College (October 16, 2006)
    Judge John E. Jones, named one of this year's 100 most influential people by Time magazine for his landmark ruling against the teaching of "intelligent design" will present Bennington College's Ruth E. Ewing ‘37 Lecture honoring Social Activism. [Read more.]

    Dr. William F. Ruddiman Visits Bennington College as the Robert H. Woodworth Lecturer in the Sciences (October 13, 2006)
    William F. Ruddiman, a paleoclimatologist and author of Plagues, Plows, and Petroleum, visits Bennington College to deliver the Robert H. Woodworth Lecture in the Sciences. [Read more.]

    Bennington College Alumna Kiran Desai ‘93 Wins the Booker Prize for Fiction (October 12, 2006)
    The 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction "one of the most distinguished prizes in literature" went to Bennington College alumna Kiran Desai '93 for her novel The Inheritance of Loss published by Hamish Hamilton. Desai, a graduate of literature from Bennington College, is the youngest recipient to claim such an honor. [Read more.]

  • Bennington College Announces Its Fall Music Performances (October 5, 2006)
    Bennington College invites the public to its fall music performances. All performances are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. [Read more.]
  • Bennington College Presents Vasen: Traditional Swedish Folk Music (September 27, 2006)
    Bennington College invites the public to enjoy the performance of musical pioneers Vasen, an acoustic trio from Uppland, Sweden, on Monday, October 2, 2006, at 8 pm in the College’s Greenwall Auditorium, VAPA. The performance is free and open to the public. [Read more.]
  • Critically Acclaimed Dance Piece Fare Well Performed at Bennington College (September 25, 2006)
    New York Bessie Award-winning dancers Paul Matteson MFA ’07 and Jennifer Nugent return to Bennington College to perform their critically acclaimed hour-long dance piece, Fare Well. The performance, which is free and open to the public, will take place at the College’s Martha Hill Dance Theater, Saturday and Sunday, October 7 and 8, 2006, at 8:00 pm. [Read more.]
  • Modern Still Life Painter, Tracey Miller Speaks at Bennington College (September 25, 2006)
    Brooklyn-based still-life painter Tracy Miller visits Bennington College as part of the Visual Arts Lecture Series on Tuesday, October 17, 2006, at 7:30 pm, in the Tishman Lecture Hall. Miller’s lecture is free and open to the public. [Read more.]
  • Bennington College Presents a Term-Long Series on Hurricane Katrina (September 22, 2006)
    Bennington College’s Social Science Colloquium examines Hurricane Katrina during a term-long lecture series. All lectures, which are free and open to the public, will take place in the College’s Barn 100 at 7:00 pm. [Read more.]
  • Bennington College Announces the 2006 Fall Visual Art Lecture Series (September 12, 2006)
    Bennington College invites the public to its term-long Visual Arts Lecture Series. All lectures and performances are free and open to the public. [Read more.]
  • Walk, Run, Bike to New Bennington College Pathway (September 11, 2006)
    Bennington College invites the public to its newly constructed, three-quarter-mile pedestrian and bike path. The path—designated for runners, walkers, and cyclists—begins at the College’s main entrance on Route 67A and winds through the meadows and woodlands that line College Drive. [Read more.]
  • The Crossett Connection: Celebrating the Photography of Carolyn Crossett Rowland ’37 at Bennington College (August 17, 2006)
    Bennington College celebrates the historic photography of Carolyn Crossett Rowland ’37, beginning Wednesday, September 20, 2006, in the College’s Usdan Gallery. The exhibition, The Crossett Connection, is free and open to the public and will be on display until October 20, 2006. The exhibition will survey a selection of both Carolyn's and her father Edward's photographs that demonstrate their shared passion for the medium and their connection to some of the illustrious personalities who helped support the practice of photography as a fine art.  [Read more.]
  • Bennington College Faculty and Alumni Help Select The New York Times Best American Fiction (August 14, 2006)
    When The New York Times Book Review wanted to identify "the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years," they contacted "prominent writers, critics, editors, and other literary sages" to chose. Among the judges, eight are from the Bennington College community. [Read more.]
  • Time Magazine Identifies Jonathan Lethem '86 and Bret Easton Ellis '86 as "Voices of Their Generation" (July 25, 2006)
    What do Jonathan Lethem '86, Bret Easton Ellis '86, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, J.D. Salinger, and Kurt Vonnegut have in common? All were recognized in the July 10, 2006, issue of Time magazine as "voices of their generation." [Read more.]
  • Bennington College Decade-Long Writer-in-Residence, Donald Hall Named U.S. Poet Laureate (June 15, 2006)
    Donald Hall—distinguished poet and decade-long writer-in-residence at Bennington College's graduate writing program—received poetry's highest and most illustrious honor, having been named the United States Poet Laureate by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. Accordingly, Hall will serve as "the nation's official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans. [He will] seek to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry." [Read more.]
  • Bennington’s MFA in Writing Core Faculty Member Amy Hempel Awes Critics with Newly Released Collection (June 30, 2006)
    Fiction core faculty member in the MFA in Writing program, Amy Hempel released The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, which has inspired a virtual standing ovation from critics, authors, and readers alike. [Read more.]
  • Distinguished Author and Journalist George Packer Returns to Address the MFA in Writing's Class of 2006 (June 24, 2006)
    George Packer, renowned author, journalist, and former writing faculty member at Bennington College, will return to address the 2006 graduating class of the MFA in Writing Seminars, Saturday, June 24, 2006. [Read more.]
  • Second Fulbright Will Take Drama Faculty Member to Other Side of the Globe (June 23, 2006)
    Michael Giannitti, drama faculty member at Bennington College since 1992, has been awarded his second Fulbright Senior Specialist grant. Having used his first award to teach at the National University of Art, Theater and Cinema in Bucharest, Romania, in fall 2004, Giannitti will use this grant to teach lighting design at the New Zealand Drama School in Wellington, New Zealand, for six weeks this summer. [Read more.]
  • Renowned Bennington College Graduate Writing Faculty Offer Summer Reading Series (June 6, 2006)
    Bennington College’s Graduate Writing program welcomes the public to its summer reading series, which is free and open to the public. All readings will take place at 7:00 pm in the College’s Deane Carriage Barn, Thursday, June 15 through Thursday, June 22, 2006. [Read more.]
  • Mathematics Faculty Member “Graduating” with the Class of 2006 Set to Speak at Commencement (May 31, 2006)
    Bennington College has announced that mathematics faculty member Glen Van Brummelen will address the graduating class of 2006 during the commencement dinner on Friday, June 2, 2006. Van Brummelen, a historian of ancient and medieval mathematics and astronomy who has taught math at the College since 1999, will be leaving Bennington to be part of founding a new institution in his native Canada: Quest University, the first private secular liberal arts college in that country. [Read more.]
  • Science Faculty Member Chosen to Chair ESA's Annual Meeting in '07 (May 23, 2006)
    Ecologist Kerry Woods, member of the science faculty for 20 years, has been invited to chair the 2007 Annual Meeting of the 9,000-member Ecological Society of America (ESA), a position typically held by individuals from large research universities. Woods, who earned his PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University, has studied a range of ecosystems and his current research—which involves many Bennington students—addresses the dynamics of old-growth forests in Michigan and landscape patterns in Vermont and the Taconic Mountains of New York. [Read more.]
  • Author, Scholar, and Alumnus Michael Pollan '76 Examines the Natural History of Four Meals (May 8, 2006)
    The latest book by Michael Pollan '76, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals begins with a simple question: "How did we ever get to a point where we need investigative journalists to tell us where our food comes from and nutritionists to determine the dinner menu?" What follows is anything but simple as Pollan tours readers through the origins of four meals from McDonald's, to Whole Foods, to a self-sustaining farm, and finally a "hunter-gather" entrée. [Read more.]
  • Faculty Member and Former Diplomat Mansour Farhang Installed as the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching (May 8, 2006)
    Former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, author, and current political science and international relations faculty member Mansour Farhang has just been named the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching, an endowed chair established in honor of one of Bennington College’s most esteemed teachers, Catharine “Kit” Osgood Foster, a member of the literature faculty from 1934 until her retirement in 1968. [Read more.]
  • Members of Bennington College Community Receive Almost 20 Percent of the Honors Awarded by Academy of Arts & Letters (May 8, 2006)
    Of the 17 honors it is bestowing this year, the Academy of Arts and Letters is recognizing three members of the Bennington College community for accomplishment in their field. Poet Stephen Sandy, a member of Bennington’s literature faculty from 1969–2002, is being honored with an Academy Award in Literature, one of the highest prizes awarded by the Academy. Sandy is one of eight recipients to receive this prestigious honor. [Read more.]
  • Art Faculty Member Yoko Inoue Honored with 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship (April 24, 2006)
    The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has recognized Yoko Inoue, a visiting art faculty member, by awarding her a fellowship for her innovative work in installation art. She is the 21st Bennington College faculty member to receive this honor. [Read more.]
  • Mass Debuts at Bennington College (April 21, 2006)
    Bennington College music faculty member and critically acclaimed composer Nick Brooke will have his most recent composition, Mass, performed on Friday, April 28, at 8:00 pm & 10:00 pm, and Saturday, April 29, 2006, at 8:00 pm, in the College’s Margot Tenney Theater located in the Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) center. [Read more.]
  • Bennington College Writer-in-Residence Donald Hall Releases New Collection of Poems to Critical Acclaim (April 20, 2006)
    Donald Hall, writer-in-residence in the Writing Seminars graduate program at Bennington College, received a uniquely audible endorsement from American Public Radio’s Garrison Keillor. Keillor selected Hall’s poem “We Bring Democracy to Fish” as a feature for his April 7, 2006, edition of The Writer’s Almanac, a daily, syndicated five-minute public radio program featuring a single poem each day. Keillor, well known for his breathy, deliberate renditions of poetry, read Hall’s short, provocative work, which was heard on more than 340 stations, nationwide. [Read more.]
  • The New York Times....Bennington, "Home to One of the Nation’s Top Private Colleges" (April 14, 2006)
    North Bennington, described by The New York Times as epitomizing "preserved, picturesque Vermont" and "home to one of the country's top private colleges," was celebrated for offering, "big-city perks, accessible nature and bottomless history" in today’s edition of "Escape", a weekly travel section of The New York Times. [Read more.]
  • Honors for Bennington College Faculty Members Span the Disciplines (April 12, 2006)
    The contributions and achievements of several Bennington College faculty members representing a diverse range of    disciplines were recently recognized in a variety ways. [Read more.]
  • Celebrating the Life of Longtime Faculty Member Gunnar Schonbeck (April 12, 2006)
    Bennington College will host a celebratory service honoring the life and 50-year career of the late Gunnar Schonbeck, a member of the College’s music faculty from 1948 to 1999. [Read more.]
  • Body Wars on Campus: Dr. Margo Maine Takes On Eating Disorders (March 24, 2006)
    Bennington College invites the public to attend a lecture that tackles the difficult topic of eating disorders—conditions that affect nearly 10 million Americans each year. [Read more.]
  • Bennington College Invites Public to Spring Social Science Colloquium (March 14, 2006)
    Bennington College announces its Social Science Colloquium schedule for the spring term. [Read more.]
  • The Emergent Improvisation Project at Bennington College (March 8, 2006)
    Following a residency at Bennington College, dance faculty member Susan Sgorbati ’72, MFA ’86 will present the Emergent Improvisation Project, a series of new performance works that explore the emergent and complex natures of movement and sound improvisation. [Read more.]
  • Bennington College Sets its Spring 2006 Visual Arts Lecture Series (March 8, 2006)
    Bennington College announces the schedule for its Spring Visual Arts Lecture series. [Read more.]
  • The Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages & Cultures at Bennington College Announces a Spring Lecture Series: Perspectives on Democracy (March 7, 2006)
    Bennington College’s Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages & Cultures, a program designed such that language instruction is inseparable from learning about a country and its culture, hosts a spring lecture series, Perspectives on Democracy. These events, which are free and open to the public, will be held at 7:00 pm in Barn 124 on the College’s campus. [Read more.]
  • Award-Winning Artist Lorna Simpson to Lecture at Bennington College (February 28, 2006)
    Noted contemporary visual artist Lorna Simpson has been named Bennington College’s 2006 Adams–Tillim lecturer. [Read more.]
  • Quantum Leap and Pangaea Restaurant Team Up for Benefit Dinner (February 17, 2006)
    Tickets are now available for a special fund-raising dinner to be held at Pangaea Restaurant in North Bennington on Sunday, February 26, 2006, 5:00-7:00 pm. [Read more.]
  • One Alumna Honors Another: Renowned Abstract Expressionist Painter Recognizes Longtime Friend With Pledge (February 14, 2006)
    The distinguished American artist and a graduate of Bennington College, Helen Frankenthaler ’49 has pledged $100,000 to Bennington College in honor of her close friend, Rebecca Stickney, graduate of the class of 1943. [Read more.]
  • Devoted Bennington College Alumna Makes $1 Million Commitment to Alma Mater (January 4, 2006)
    Barbara Ushkow Deane '51 and her husband, Maurice, of New York City have pledged $1 million to Bennington College for the continued renovation of the Deane Carriage Barn, a former stable turned performance and concert space that accommodates concerts, large and small exhibitions, readings, receptions, and additional events. [Read more.]
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