Lucky sevens: Rugby women are regional D2 champs in spring style of play

The Saint Michael’s women’s rugby club team became champions of the Rugby Northeast Division II “sevens” tournament on April 9 at Stonehill College, beating Colby College for the title after […]

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Campus springs to life with multiple May tree-planting events

“We’ve been putting in some serious trees this week,” said biology Professor Declan McCabe Wednesday about a recent happy flurry of planting events — mostly in the College Natural Area […]

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Heidi St. Peter ’96 named as College’s first director of purposeful learning

“I think this position really came out of re-imagining everything we’ve always been good at here at St. Mike’s,” said Heidi St. Peter ‘96 shortly after the College chose her […]

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Community love animates fundraiser to fight childhood cancer

In a time when returning to in-person events on campus has yielded sparse student turnout, the St. Baldrick’s event in Ross gym rallied hundreds of Saint Michael’s students to show […]

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Mentored summer research now embedded in campus culture

Each year at Saint Michael’s College, students apply to conduct mentored summer research in a wide variety of fields. Successful applicants selected by the Undergraduate Consortium and Vice President for […]

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Alpine Racing Club lets avid, skilled skiers do what they love, outside varsity

Members of the Saint Michael’s College Alpine Racing Club (ARC) often can be found loading their gear up into a College van early in the morning before making the 45- […]

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Ultimate Frisbee Club goes undefeated at tournament, but members stay chill

The Saint Michael’s College Ultimate Frisbee Club is celebrating recent success at a tournament in Worcester, MA, at the College of the Holy Cross. The team won all four games […]

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Common Text for incoming first-years: ‘The Office of Historical Corrections’

The Common Text for incoming first-year Saint Michael’s students in 2022-2023 is the final novella included in the collection The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans, an American fiction […]

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Symposium sampler: Student writers take in a range of presentations

Interesting student presentations continued Friday and Saturday (April 22-23) as Saint Michael’s College welcomed back its annual Academic Symposium after a two-year pandemic hiatus. Students of all disciplines and graduation […]

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Academic Symposium: Back live on campus, off to strong start

View a photo gallery of early Academic Symposium presentations>> Students and their faculty mentors were excited to be back with live presentations for the annual Academic Symposium at Saint Michel’s […]

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Marginal social standing impacts HIV/AIDS suffering, speaker says

Kofi Avusuglo, PhD, spoke to attendees Wednesday night at his lecture “HIV/AIDS and Human Rights” about how people suffer more from HIV/AIDS due to marginal social standings, be it gender, […]

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Freeman grant to fund 14 students for South Korea internships

Saint Michael’s College soon will be sending students abroad to participate in the College’s Global Citizenship International Internship Program, made possible by a grant from the Freeman Foundation. This year’s […]

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Academic Honor Societies hold April induction ceremonies

Spring is the season for induction ceremonies among the many Saint Michel’s academic honor societies. Here are the ceremonies that took place or are (in one case) upcoming this spring, […]

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Both ‘gut feelings’ and practical factors weigh into transfer decisions

Beth Syverson ’23, a student writer in the Marketing & Communication Office, interviewed Anna Duffy ’23 and Benoit Fumeux ’22 about their transfer student experiences before writing a first-person account […]

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Popovich webinar for Romanians draws on St. Mike’s pandemic adjustments

Karen Popovich of the Saint Michael’s College business administration and accounting faculty is active with the American Councils for International Education (ACIE). Recently she presented a three-hour webinar for Romanian […]

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Imam Abdullah Antepli shares vision of Jewish-Muslim reconciliation in Rabbi Wall lecture

Much as Rabbi Max Wall’s outreach to Saint Michael’s College, emblematic of heroic initiatives globally, brought unimaginable strides toward reconciliation between Jews and Christians in the 20th Century given such […]

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Panel weighs how times, standards change on critiquing Black art themes

Panelists discussing the 2006 film Dream Girls Wednesday in the Roy Room seemed to suggest that critiques of Black representation in film and videography must take care to avoid the […]

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Students learn and grow in NYC with professor at psychology convention

Ari Kirshenbaum, professor of psychology at Saint Michael’s College, recently brought five students to the Eastern Psychological Association’s annual convention in New York City in early March. Two students were […]

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Keynoter launches MLK Week exploration of racial understanding through art

The power of language and other artistic expressions in telling Black America’s story of pain, joy and sense of self, all amid complex tensions with white America through our history, […]

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Clinical Psychology master’s graduates value what they learned

Two 2016 graduates of the Saint Michael’s College Clinical Psychology Master’s Program have only grown in appreciation for their mentors and strong professional preparation in the program now that they […]

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Agents urge students of all backgrounds to weigh FBI careers

Two FBI agents came to the Saint Michael’s College campus Thursday morning and led an investigation by their student audience into possible career paths within the federal law enforcement agency. […]

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Leahy ’61 directs federal funds to Institute for Global Engagement

A new Institute for Global Engagement at Saint Michael’s College is set to receive $400,000 in federal funding from the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, signed on March 15. The support, championed by Sen. Patrick […]

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Private investigator intrigues students with career tales

Susan Randall, a licensed private investigator for over 23 years in both Vermont and New York, visited Saint Michael’s College to discuss her circuitous career path and offer advice for […]

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Speaker explores intersection of Indigenous, Christian traditions

This year’s common text for Saint Michael’s College first year students, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, helped Wednesday’s campus guest speaker Damian Costello come to better terms with the […]

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Good memories inspire Don Dion’s generosity with his time, resources

Though life as a Saint Michael’s College student in the 1970s was vastly different from the experiences of students today, alumni of both eras can find meaningful ways to support […]

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Spring break service trips serve Hartford, Long Island and New Orleans

Three groups of Saint Michael’s students, sent forth by the service arm of Edmundite Campus Ministry called MOVE, resumed a longstanding tradition of trips focused on helping others during spring […]

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Lecture brings intimate view of Ukraine music, culture to campus

“We won’t care about something we don’t know about,” said Middlebury music scholar Jeffrey Buettner, whose lecture Thursday at Saint Michael’s College on “Choral Music of Ukraine and Ukrainian Roma” […]

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Lew of faculty says Ukraine benefit concert a ‘smashing success’

Nat Lew, Saint Michael’s professor of music and director of the Honors Program, presided over a large-scale fundraiser for Ukraine at the Elley-Long Music Center on the North Campus of […]

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Over 30 years, women’s rugby club has been about camaraderie, fun

As women’s rugby this year celebrates 30 years as an official club sport at Saint Michael’s College, team members, coaches and alumni are celebrating the program’s longevity and success by […]

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Vermont State Representative Taylor Small visits Saint Michael’s

Vermont State Rep. Taylor Small (Progressive/Democrat-Chittenden-6-7), one of seven openly transgender state legislators in the U.S., spoke to Saint Michael’s students in the Roy Room of the Dion Student Center […]

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Saint Michael’s volleyball: Growing a sport while growing a program

As the Saint Michael’s College Women’s Volleyball program works at growing and achieving wider recognition, coaches and team members say they also feel a special responsibility to grow the sport […]

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Phi Beta Kappa speaker Lopez tells of ‘A Jesuit in Tibet’

Donald S. Lopez, professor of Buddhism and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan, came to Saint Michael’s College Tuesday night and gave a lecture titled “A Jesuit Missionary in […]

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Theologian tells story of diversity on religious college campuses

During a late-afternoon talk Wednesday in the Dion Student Center Roy Room, a Fordham University theologian explored how college campuses in the United States have and have not fostered diversity, […]

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Zoe Feehan ’22 changes career course toward veterinary medicine

Zoe Feehan ’22 plans to head to Atlantic Veterinary College at University of Prince Edward Island in Canada after graduating this spring even though initially she planned to pursue human […]

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Resident Assistant’s ‘Murals’ project brightens Alumni basement

Kelechi “KC” Onuoha, a junior biology and philosophy major from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, has been a Resident Assistant (RA) at Saint Michael’s College since her sophomore year in Alumni Hall, a […]

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Student eyes optometry career after job shadow

Camie Rediker ’22, a neuroscience major with a double minor in chemistry and philosophy from Hartland, VT, plans to head to Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences to acquire […]

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Three Saint Michael’s students share about adventures abroad

The study abroad experience at Saint Michael’s College is one of the most sought-after aspects of a Saint Michael’s education by current and prospective students. The College’s Study Abroad website […]

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As father and son, Dennis men bring living civil rights history to campus

Watch video of the entire Sutherland Lecture event>> David Dennis Sr. as a young college student already had been one of the first brave “Freedom Riders” in the early 1960s […]

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Catholic education leader: Clear purpose illuminates college life

Considering the time and money Americans spend on higher education, they had best not deprive themselves of a good answer to the question of why they go to school, a […]

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Faculty experts share insights with community on Ukraine crisis

A Saint Michael’s community Zoom conversation about the crisis in Ukraine Tuesday evening sponsored by the College’s new Institute for Global Engagement illustrated the important practical utility of such a […]

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Alumni from beer and cider industry share career tips

Nearly 100 students and business faculty gathered in the Roy Room late Monday afternoon to hear the perspectives of four Saint Michael’s alumni who work in the craft beer and […]

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Campus Ministry observes Lent with reflections

Each year, a group of Edmundite Campus Ministry staff, faculty and students study the Sunday readings of Lent to extract a focus statement to center our prayer during this season […]

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James Fallon ’69: Do what you love, learn from failures

Although he might not have realized it at the time, Dr. James Fallon ’69 H’02, an award-winning scientist, scholar and internationally known expert on psychopaths and killers among countless other […]

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Brizard of physics faculty has key role in ‘building a star on Earth’

Watch Alain Brizard’s TV interview with WCAX anchor>> Fusion energy – the deeply challenging science of “building a star on earth” to possibly save the planet one day with safe […]

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Music, social justice animate life outside work for Maria Rinaldi ’00

Maria Rinaldi ’00, a Saint Michael’s web support specialist in the Office of Admission, has enjoyed singing recreationally and with her liturgical choirs for as long as she remembers. During […]

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Goldsworthy ’93 finds his calling in print & mail

George Goldsworthy, a 1993 Saint Michael’s graduate, joined the College staff as his first job upon earning his degree to become the unsung backbone of the College’s advertisement both on […]

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Leandre Waldo is new chief of staff for Saint Michael’s President Sterritt

Leandre Waldo brings a wealth of relevant experience in communications and higher education as she starts work this week at Saint Michael’s College as chief of staff for President Lorraine […]

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Original Freedom Rider, son to offer Sutherland Lecture at Saint Michael’s

One of the original “Freedom Riders” will join his son in a visit to the Saint Michael’s campus at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, 2022 in the McCarthy Arts […]

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Fr. Myhalyk shares history, legacy of Edmundite missions

Fr. Richard “Dick” Myhalyk, S.S.E. ’66 spoke on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, in the McCarthy Arts Center at Saint Michael’s College about the history of Edmundite missions in Selma and […]

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Spring play places Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in 1960s

Elvis Presley and the Beatles find their way into Saint Michael’s College’s spring Main Stage production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, with socially aware, playful and innovative direction from adjunct acting […]

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