Faculty News
Coleman Discusses Plans for CAPA on VPRBennington President Elizabeth Coleman was a guest on Vermont Public Radio's Vermont Edition on February 12 to discuss plans for the Center for the Advancement of Public Action, a building that will embody Bennington's new curricular initiative. Construction on the project is expected to begin this spring.
Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!Former Bennington College president Frederick Burkhardt founded The Darwin Correspondence Project in 1974, with the aid of Sydney Smith, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge (U.K.). They originally set out to locate, research, and publish summaries of all letters written by Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century (1809-1882).
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.