Faculty News

Former Bennington College president Frederick Burkhardt founded The Darwin Correspondence Project in 1974, with the aid of Sydney Smith, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge (U.K.). They originally set out to locate, research, and publish summaries of all letters written by Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century (1809-1882).

Bennington College President Elizabeth Coleman was a featured panelist at the second annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI-U) meeting, a three-day event that challenged college students and officials to tackle pressing global problems.

According to a recent article in The Boston Globe, fewer novels today are being adapted for film, making novelists who have found success in the Hollywood marketplace, such as faculty member Rebecca Godwin, increasingly rare.

Bennington guitar teacher and composer Frederic Hand has earned a 2008 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award from the Classical Recording Foundation for his arrangements and performance on flutist Paula Robison's new album, Places of the Spirit: The Holy Land.

Bennington College President Elizabeth Coleman joined Al Gore, Bill Gates, Herbie Hancock, and other leading innovators in speaking at the 25th annual Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference, a highly anticipated four-day event that challenged some of the world's forward-most thinkers to deliver "the talk of their lives in 18 minutes."