Our regular recap of goings on at the College and a look ahead to events on the horizon.

As always, we hope to call your attention to items that captured ours and alert you to events that you won’t want to miss. If you have a news item that you think we’d be interested in, drop us a line at middmag@middlebury.edu .

• Sociology professor Peggy Nelson penned a provocative opinion piece for the Washington Post, which ran the essay in its Sunday Outlook section. The author of the recently published book Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times, Nelson used the Post essay to address the “Helicopter Parents” phenomenon. The piece has gotten quite a bit of attention; the New York Times’s parenting blog, “Motherlode,” called Nelson’s essay “the talk of the parenting blogosphere” this week.

• Also in the Times, one of its higher ed bloggers recently visited Middlebury—as the parent of a prospective student.

• Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies—having been affiliated since 2005—are now officially integrated.

• This weekend, the curtain rises on The Potomac Theatre Project’s fourth season in New York City. Co-founded (and co-directed) by Middlebury professors Cheryl Faraone and Richard Romagnoli 23 years ago, PTP is supported, in part, by the College, and has employed more than 200 Middlebury students as PTP company members.

• If you were listening to NPR’s “Morning Edition” last week, you might have heard Middlebury political science professor Matt Dickinson in a story about crises and the presidency.

• If you’re visiting—or even just passing through—Middlebury this summer, you’ll want to swing by the Mahaney Center for the Arts. On view until August 15 is an exhibition dedicated to the concept of “Celebrity.” Among the can’t-miss pieces: Warhol’s iconic Marilyn.