Alumni News
Gaffney ’10 Analyzes Romney, Obama Twitter Activity When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gained more than 100,000 Twitter followers over a single weekend, many in the social media world did a double take. Devin Gaffney ’10, a master's candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and founder of 140kit.com, did a full-blown statistical analysis. The surprising results of his study can be found in a recent article he co-authored in The Atlantic.
Fridley ’97 Receives Young Scientists AwardThe New York Academy of Sciences has awarded Dr. Jason Fridley ’97 a 2012 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in support of his research on the impact of climate change and invasive species on terrestrial ecological communities.
Dinklage ’91, Tucker ’89 Earn Back-to-Back Emmy NominationsActor Peter Dinklage ’91 and casting director Julie Tucker ’89 have been nominated for Emmy Awards for outstanding work in primetime television for the second straight year.
Stratton's Album ‘One of Year’s Best’PopMatters magazine wasn’t short on accolades in a recent profile of singer/songwriter Will Stratton ’09, proclaiming: “this Bennington graduate’s fourth full-length [album], Post-Empire, just so happens to be one of the best albums released so far this year."
Peter Dinklage '91 "These are the shiny, more important people." -Peter Dinklage '91
Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Peter Dinklage '91 returned to campus on June 1, 2012 to deliver the year's Commencement address.