College News

For their design of Bennington College's biomass heating facility, which heats 85 percent of the campus using renewable wood chips, Centerline Architects and Planners have earned an Excellence in Architecture Award from The American Institute of Architects/Vermont Chapter.

Bennington College is proud to announce that Oceana Wilson, Director of Library and Information Services, has been named winner of the American Library Association's I Love My Librarian Award, an annual prize sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and The New York Times.

The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) has honored Bennington's Quantum Leap program with the Vermont State Merit Award—one of six state merit awards given annually as part of the New England Higher Education Excellence Awards.

The Bennington College community mourns the loss of friend and pioneering dance choreographer Merce Cunningham, who died on Sunday, July 26, at the age of 90 years old.

Bennington's 2009 Senior Art Show opened on Wednesday, May 13, in the College's Usdan Gallery.