Faculty News
President Coleman Addresses Military Leaders and Strategists in LondonBennington President Elizabeth Coleman delivered a speech this week on effective leadership at The Royal College of Defence Studies in London, an internationally renowned program that attracts senior leaders and strategists from around the world.
Liz Deschenes Opens Photo Exhibition in ParisFaculty member Liz Deschenes' Right/Left photography exhibition was on display last month at the prestigious Sutton Lane art gallery, marking her third solo exhibition of 2009 (and her first-ever in Paris).
Rector Featured on "The Writer's Almanac"A poem by Liam Rector, the late founding director of Bennington's MFA in Writing program, was featured today on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor, a radio program aired daily on public broadcasting stations around the country.
Maharaj Named Special Envoy to South African PresidentRecent faculty member Mac Maharaj, the South African anti-apartheid hero who famously smuggled Nelson Mandela's biography out of prison in 1976, has been named special envoy to South African President Jacob Zuma.
Schroeder Presents Research at National Geology ConferenceGeology faculty member Tim Schroeder was invited to present his research on the "Mesozoic and Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of Northwestern Mexico and the Southwestern United States" at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, this week.