Student News
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Bennington student editors have released the fifth volume of plain china, the first and only literary anthology showcasing the best undergraduate writing from across the country.
![The Spinto Band performing for the reunion](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/TheSpintoBand_All-ClassReunion_2013_600x450.jpg?itok=WcQkK4nH)
Bennington is never more alive than during Reunion and Family Weekend. Enjoy the highlights here.
![Journal of Biological Chemistry logo](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/JPC_JournalOfBiologicalChemistry_logo_600x450.jpg?itok=aoTtj-dd)
Carlos Mendez '15 co-authored a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry based on research he conducted over the summer and during last year's Field Work Term at the University of Southern California. The paper provides insight into “an alternative molecular basis for the initiation events in skin cancer.”
![Skidmore College, Bucknell University](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Skidmore_Bucknell_logo_600x450.jpg?itok=QRWqynRC)
Two Bennington students have been invited to Bucknell University this summer, and two others to Skidmore College, for highly selective, nationally sought-after creative writing fellowships.
![Bennington ACTS Student Volunteers 2012](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/ACTS_Volunteer_2012_600x450.jpg?itok=smfN5L5o)
More than 80 Bennington students and staff members spent a recent Saturday pitching in around town and continuing the College's Hurricane Sandy relief efforts as part of the Bennington ACTS annual day of service.