Student News

On Saturday, March 14, Linds Leggett ’27, along with facilitators Beatrix Sherry ’26 and Carissa K. Lombardi '26, joined nearly a dozen participants in the Admissions Parlor for a restorative justice circle combined with succulent planting. The event, part of the Restorative Justice Collective’s Pi Day celebration, centered on building community. 

During the fall term, Brennan Eberwine ’27 spent Thursday afternoons in the East Academic Center at Bennington College for Journalism & Democracy. He and his eleven classmates, under the direction of Brian Campion, faculty member in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action, met with journalists, read and reflected on news stories, and, outside of class, contributed as journalists to the Bennington Banner.

This past summer, Willa Donovan ’26 joined Bennington faculty member in Ecology Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie and teams from the University of Maine and the University of Vermont as a research assistant. Donovan contributed to the multi-year project examining how northeastern alpine plant communities are changing as the climate warms.

Projects for Peace has announced its 2025 cohort of grantees. This year, 134 projects from 93 partner institutions were selected, with one project being chosen from Bennington College.

"Catastrophe Theory," a poem by Blu Mehari '26, was selected by poet Matthew Shenoda for the 2025 Green Prize for Poetry by the Academy of American Poets and is featured on their website.