Student News

Commons at Bennington College Bennington College Awards the Ben Belitt Prize for Undergraduate Writers

Winston Foundation grant funds $1,000 prizes for three students.

Photo of Lucy Murrell in a black jacket, standing in front of a flowering tree Lucy Murrell Selected as Residential Teaching Fellow at Bennington Writing Seminars

Lucy Murrell, an MFA student in poetry, has been selected to be the fifteenth Residential Teaching Fellow at Bennington Writing Seminars.

Commons at Bennington College How Yasmine Fundi ’25 Combines Dance and Biology to Explore Healing Through Movement

Yasmine Fundi ’25 studies Biology and Dance at Bennington. She reflected upon her Field Work Term at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, a member of Dartmouth Health, in Bennington, VT, and shared her plans for after graduation.

Image of Anu at podium Senior Dance Concert Showcases Personal Vision and Artistic Growth

On the evening of Friday, May 2, 2025, at Martha Hill Dance Theater at Bennington College, Bachelors of Arts students who produced Advanced Work in Dance performed To the Point: Senior Dance Concert.

A Boy Named Salmon A Story of Voice and Vision: A Boy Named Salmon by Rachel McCauley ’26

A Boy Named Salmon, a play by Rachel McCauley ’26, wasn’t just a production—it’s a deeply personal, defiant, and resonant exploration of identity, belonging, and the discomfort of truth-telling in so-called progressive spaces. It was presented in Margot Tenney Theater on Thursday, May 8, and Friday, May 9, 2025.