Faculty News
Bennington College Physicist Reveals New Clues to the Shape-Shifting Dance of Dark Matter and Black HolesA new study by physicist and visiting faculty member Dor Ben-Amotz '76, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), sheds new light on what dark matter is made of—and suggests that some of the universe's smallest galaxies may be hiding massive black holes at their centers.
Two Bennington College Faculty Members Awarded Prestigious 2026 Fellowships from the Marion and Jasper Whiting FoundationFaculty members Mariam Rahmani and Sue Rees have been named 2026 Whiting Fellows by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation.
Spray Gun Art from the Swinging SixtiesThrough August 9, former faculty member Jules Olitski is highlighted in Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s at The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, created as a showcase for the brief but highly regarded chapter when the artist was enthralled by the aesthetic possibilities of sprayed color.
Richardson Named 2026 Pulitzer Prize FinalistBennington Writing Seminars faculty member Lance Richardson was named a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (Pantheon, 2025).
Accidental Deep Ocean Discovery Reveals Hidden Carbon SinkFaculty member Tim Schroeder is co-author of the study “Mineral Carbonation of Peridotite Fueled by Magmatic Degassing and Melt Impregnation in an Oceanic Transform Fault,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).