Alumni News

Image of students building cupola A Next Chapter in Historic Hospitality

Rafe Churchill '91 discusses his latest venture, Place in Mind, a hotelier dedicated to resurrecting historically unique properties that recall a life well lived in a place well loved.

Amanda Bacon '19 with a dichroicon, a Winston-style light concentrator built out of dichroic filters, which could allow large-scale neutrino detectors to sort photons by wavelength with small overall light loss. Small Classes, Big Research: Amanda Bacon ’19’s Bennington Education Fuels a Career in Particle Physics

Amanda Bacon ’19 came to Bennington from Riverside, California, knowing that she wanted to be an astrophysicist. But more than that, she knew physics and astronomy classes at large universities could have hundreds of students. I wanted to be able to take my education into my own hands and not be a number,” she said on March 27 during a return visit to Bennington to share her current research as a PhD candidate in particle physics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Image of Caro Claire Burke Wading into the Tradwife Conversation

The New York Times highlighted Caro Claire Burke MFA '20 and her debut novel Yesteryear (Alfred A. Knopf, 2026).

Image of Bennington commons April Alumni Perspectives: Shay Totten '91

Learn more about how to reconnect with fellow alumni in the Bay Area and in North Bennington this spring.

Image of Michael Pollan Michael Pollan Discusses Consciousness on The Ezra Klein Show

Michael Pollan '76 joined The Ezra Klein Show to discuss his most recent book, A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness.