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Panthers start fast with three home wins

Posted on April 9, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — The defending NESCAC West and league champion Middlebury College softball team swept three 8-0 games from visiting Hamilton this past weekend to earn a share of first place in the league.

The Panthers (13-7 overall, 3-0 in NESCAC West) have now won five straight games and nine of their last 10, and are tied with Amherst (21-1, 3-0) atop the league standings. Williams and Wesleyan each stand at 3-3 in NESCAC West; Amherst swept three games from Williams, and Williams took a three-game set from Wesleyan.

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Panther women's lax remains undefeated

Posted on April 2, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — On Saturday the Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team faced arguably its toughest test to date, a home game after a day of travel back from Colorado against Bowdoin, which reached the 2011 NCAA Division III final four.

The Polar Bears entered the contest at just 4-2, but were also getting back their best player from injury, center midfielder Katie Stewart.

The Panthers, who last week were ranked No. 7 in NCAA Division III, still won by six, 16-10, to improve to 8-0 overall, 5-0 in NESCAC play.

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Professor urges college to reform sports spending

Posted on March 29, 2012 |
By Christian Woodard



MIDDLEBURY — College sports is a big deal in Middlebury. Not big enough, says Charles T. Clotfelter.

The Duke University economics professor will deliver a lecture titled “What?! You Don’t Take College Sports Seriously?” on Thursday, April 5, at 4:30 p.m. in Twilight Auditorium on the Middlebury campus.

“The cost of big time athletics is growing faster than anything else that universities do,” Clotfelter said.

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Middlebury women's lax still perfect after three wins

Posted on March 26, 2012 |
By Addy Indy Staff



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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team romped to three wins in the latter half of last week to improve to 5-0, 4-0 in NESCAC. The Panthers were ranked No. 7 in last week’s NCAA Division III poll.

On Wednesday, the Panthers topped host Skidmore, 16-5, dropping the Thoroughbreds to 3-1.

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Men's hockey holds on for 2-1 win

Posted on February 27, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — Late in the third period of Saturday’s NESCAC quarterfinal, the Middlebury College men’s hockey team had a couple monkeys on its back despite the Panthers’ much-improved play of late.

The Panthers (now 13-9-3 overall) had shrugged off a midseason slump with a 5-1-1 surge to seize the No. 3 seed in the NESCAC playoffs with an 11-6-1 league mark. That seed earned them the right to host No. 6 Wesleyan on Saturday.

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College plans $46 million replacement for 'Bubble'

Posted on February 23, 2012 |
By Christian Woodard



MIDDLEBURY — After almost a decade in a temporary structure, the Middlebury College Field House will get a permanent home. The field house has been housed in an inflatable dome — the “Bubble” — off South Main Street since 2003, but last weekend the college board of trustees gave the green light for a permanent replacement.

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Middlebury College team invents hydrogen tractor

Posted on February 9, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



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MIDDLEBURY — French inventor François Isaac de Rivaz created one of the first internal combustion engines at the beginning of the 19th century. It ran on hydrogen gas. Around that same time, a nascent Middlebury College hired its first mathematics professor, expanding its offerings into the sciences. Now, more than 200 years after the onset of these seemingly unrelated events, their historic ripples have collided.

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Stomach flu hits college, nursing home

Posted on February 6, 2012 |
By Kyle Finck



MIDDLEBURY — A bout of gastroenteritis, commonly known as stomach flu, has swept through Middlebury College and the surrounding community over the past two weeks.

Students were first advised about the flu in an email to all students, faculty and staff on Jan. 22.

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Middlebury College nets second Solar Decathlon nod

Posted on January 30, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



MIDDLEBURY — It seems like just yesterday that Middlebury College’s “Self-Reliance” solar-powered house headed down to Washington, D.C., to compete in the biennial Solar Decathlon competition. The Middlebury students last fall claimed fourth place overall in an international field of entries.

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New organization at college will tackle world problems

Posted on January 30, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



MIDDLEBURY — The newest department at Middlebury College isn’t academic.

Instead, it aims to extend the skills and resources students learn within the academic institution to solve problems throughout the world.

The Center for Social Entrepreneurship, which launched with a three-day symposium last week, will coordinate skills, resources and networks at Middlebury College to help budding social entrepreneurs target the problems they see in the world.

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