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Willa Donovan '26 “Islands in the Sky”: Willa Donovan ’26 and Alpine Biodiversity

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.

Image of people dancing Projects for Peace: Rhythms of Peace

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.

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Image of Academy of American Poets logo Mehari Wins 2025 Green Prize for Poetry

"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.

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Image of Sofia Mirenda building snowman with student Exploring the Intersection of Art and Education

Sofia Mirenda '28 spent her six-week winter Field Work Term working at Red Fox Community School, an experiential K-5 school in Manchester, VT.

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Fig. 1. Drosophila species with expanded F elements. a) Karyotypes of the four expanded F element species. Muller elements A to F correspond to D. melanogaster chromosomes X, 2L, 2R, 3L, 3R, and 4, respectively. The X chromosomes (Muller A) and F elements of D. ananassae and D. bipectinata are both metacentric. Both telocentric (dark red arm only) and metacentric (both dark and light red arms) F elements have been reported in D. kikkawai (Baimai and Chumchong 1980). Students Earn Coauthorship on Published Genomics Research

Work propels students toward promising careers in bioinformatics and genetics.