Faculty News
President Coleman Discusses Sustainability at Clinton Global Initiative EventBennington College President Elizabeth Coleman was a featured panelist at the second annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI-U) meeting, a three-day event that challenged college students and officials to tackle pressing global problems.
Godwin a Rare Talent, The Boston Globe saysAccording to a recent article in The Boston Globe, fewer novels today are being adapted for film, making novelists who have found success in the Hollywood marketplace, such as faculty member Rebecca Godwin, increasingly rare.
Hand Honored with Classical Music AwardBennington guitar teacher and composer Frederic Hand has earned a 2008 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award from the Classical Recording Foundation for his arrangements and performance on flutist Paula Robison's new album, Places of the Spirit: The Holy Land.
President Coleman Speaks at TED2009 ConferenceBennington College President Elizabeth Coleman joined Al Gore, Bill Gates, Herbie Hancock, and other leading innovators in speaking at the 25th annual Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference, a highly anticipated four-day event that challenged some of the world's forward-most thinkers to deliver "the talk of their lives in 18 minutes."
MFA Faculty Member, Alumna Receive Literary AwardsMFA faculty member Amy Hempel and Fiona Maazel MFA '02 have both received $30,000 literary prizes for their contributions to fiction.