MX Indian Club Hosts Cultural Café
Last Friday night, the Middlesex Indian Club held a cultural café for the school community. The cafés, normally held Friday nights after study hours with a coffee-house feel, provide an opportunity for...
View ArticleYoung Alumni Win Loyalty Competition
For the second time in the four years of the February Faceoff competition, Middlesex secured the most young alumni donors during the month of February among the competitors, and the resulting claim of...
View ArticleHaiku Contest 2014
The Middlesex Haiku Contest is our annual way to welcome (or encourage the arrival of) the spring season. This year, though the campus is still covered with many inches of snow in March, we hope that...
View ArticleA New Endeavor – in Public Education
After graduating from Harvard 30 years ago, Tom Strickler ’80 “set out for Hollywood with a toothbrush and a dream,” as his niece Nell ’14 quipped when introducing her uncle to the School. Starting out...
View ArticleCollege Counseling Office Announces Upcoming SAT Changes
The College Board announced on March 5th that the SAT will be dramatically overhauled for the testing cycle in the spring of 2016. David Coleman, the president of the College Board, strongly feels...
View ArticleDormitory Renovations Underway on Campus
Since Frederick Winsor imagined the Middlesex campus over a century ago, many of the original buildings remain virtually unchanged. The original construction has proven itself so sturdy that decades...
View ArticleWilliams Women's Hockey Team Claims NESCAC Championship Title
On Sunday, March 9 the Williams women's hockey team hosted Bowdoin in the 2014 NESCAC Championship game. After 45 minutes of play, the Ephs defeated the Polar Bears by a score of 4-1 to claim their...
View ArticleMiddlesex Runners Among Elite at Nationals Indoor
Senior cross-country and track captain Garrett O'Toole qualified for the one mile championship at New Balance Nationals Indoor, held March 14-16th at The Armory in New York City. It was Garrett's...
View ArticleSpring into Mindfulness
Mindfulness has been getting a lot of press lately - from the Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks practicing mindfulness, to improved test/GRE performance, to the recent cover of Time magazine. Dr....
View ArticleSpring Break Service in South Africa
As one of the two international trips Middlesex offered over Spring Break, five students and three accompanying faculty members traveled over 7,000 miles from Concord to Cape Town, South Africa. Amy...
View ArticlePlace Value
Middlesex School presents Place Value, an art exhibition organized by Meg Alexander, resident of Clay House and wife of John Hirsch, Head of the English Department. The exhibit features the work of...
View ArticleModern Methods Answer Ancient Questions
While historians routinely look to the past to make sense of the present, Professor Ted Lendon demonstrated that the opposite approach can be equally illuminating when trying to understand some aspects...
View ArticlePlaque Project: Interview with Eric Kester '04
As part of their leadership work in the Alumni office, student Alumni Ambassadors have the unique task of looking further at the plaques every student passes in the hallways each day. Senior Max Novick...
View ArticleContemporary Mapping Project
Twenty Middlesex students and faculty are making art to be exhibited in the exhibition Personal Terrain: Contemporary Mapping, opening April 16th at the Concord Art Association. According to Concord...
View ArticleIndependent Study
The Middlesex curriculum offers a great deal of breadth and challenge, but if one of our 140 courses doesn't fulfill your interests, you can undertake an Independent Study Project (ISP). An ISP is a...
View ArticleDesigning from Nature
Pint-size robots that can skitter across the floor like cockroaches, or that can approximate the vertical climbing skills of geckos – these are among the amazing creations developed by Dr. Sangbae Kim,...
View ArticleMiddlesex Parents and Alumni Enjoy Boston Seaport
The Exchange Conference Center on Boston’s historic fish pier provided a perfect evening venue for Boston based Middlesex Parents and Alumni who were eager to enjoy some true spring-like temperatures....
View ArticleO'Toole Runs in Arcadia Invitational
On Saturday, April 12, Middlesex cross-country and track standout, Garrett O'Toole '14, blazed his way to a seventh place finish at the 2014 Arcadia Invitational held in Los Angeles, CA. The Arcadia...
View ArticlePlaque Project: Interview with Erika Ferlins Mills '99
As a graduate of the Class of '99, a 6-year faculty member in English, Admissions, and Marketing, and a dorm parent and Crew coach, Erika Ferlins Mills '99 has seen campus from many angles. Hung on the...
View ArticleSpring Choral Concert
On Friday April 11, Middlesex voices raised up in song at the annual Spring Choral Concert. Featuring performances by all five choral groups, the concert included classic hits by ABBA, The Beatles,...
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