Energy competition educates, inspires good habits

A fun and educational energy competition between two Saint Michael’s College first-year residence halls, organized by junior environmental studies/political science double major Anna Beach ’22, recently kicked into high gear […]

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Nearly 120 hear author Carr’s virtual Sutherland talk

This year’s 2020 Sutherland Lecture, presented Thursday afternoon, October 22, by author Nicholas Carr to a virtual audience of about 120 people via Zoom because of the pandemic, was titled […]

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Virtual panelists describe varied paths into law

Five alumni with distinct, interesting paths in the field of law came together in a Zoom presentation through the Saint Michael’s College Career Education & Alumni Engagement Center on the […]

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Serving the community six feet apart

A group of 10 senior capstone students at Saint Michael’s College have harnessed the spirit of community and togetherness in the midst of an isolating pandemic this fall semester. Led […]

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St. Mike’s featured in Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges 2021 Edition

Saint Michael’s College is one of the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company features Saint Michael’s in The Princeton Review Guide to […]

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Internships, job guidance still vibrant in pandemic

For colleges as for individuals, long-term relationships can offer critical sustenance through hard times. So it has been professionally for Ingrid Peterson, veteran director of the Saint Michael’s Career Education […]

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Professor Griffith elected national ACLU officer at crucial time

“So many people are looking at ways to make a difference today, and this is mine,” says media law expert and civil rights activist Traci Griffith of the Saint Michael’s […]

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Alumni pals and wives launch promising fish business

Steve Flynn and Sean McDaniel (both Class of ’93) have been friends for more than 30 years. This Saturday, October 10, the two friends and their wives, Amy Flynn and […]

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PowerVine: SMC’s Energy Newsletter – Autumn 2020

The Institute for the Environment released the second edition of Power Vine: SMC’s Energy Newsletter, focusing on the unconventional reopening of campus and state to the Fall 2020 semester. Read […]

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MOVE student leaders pivot nimbly to keep serving

More people ought to know about and be inspired by “the incredible work MOVE Core Team leaders and student employees are doing to keep their peers engaged and the larger […]

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New partner Chicago Scholars boosts access, opportunity

Saint Michael’s College has signed a memo of understanding with Chicago Scholars, a seven-year college access and leadership development program. The organization works with students in Chicago who are rising […]

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St. Mike’s, Canadian students analyze COVID differences

A Saint Michael’s College political science class spoke by Zoom last Monday afternoon with a counterpart group from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada – Americans and Canadians trying […]

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Virtual Academic Convocation honors faculty scholars

Because of the pandemic, this year’s annual Academic Convocation on Friday, Sept. 25, was a “virtual” event via Zoom rather than in the McCarthy Arts Center as most years. During […]

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Making it Work: Creativity perseveres in a pandemic

We invited the community to share inspiring and interesting initiatives this semester in the “new normal” to make learning and campus life work well in spite of the considerable challenges […]

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Staff Awards during virtual assembly buoy spirits

A virtual Staff Assembly Thursday morning was a chance to celebrate community achievements among Saint Michael’s employees with the annual Staff Awards, while first offering an update from leaders on […]

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Activities keeping students busy, happy, safe

The College’s Student Life team has been doing whatever it takes to provide Saint Michael’s students with safe fun during the pandemic through an increasingly popular, re-imagined approach to activities […]

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St. Mike’s alumnus leads a town’s COVID-19 response

When Lou Botta ’75 retired to New London, New Hampshire, there was never a question of whether he would weave himself into the fabric of the town, located in the […]

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Path to elite ‘green MBA’ studies started at St. Mike’s

Meghan VanStry ’17 is currently an MBA candidate in the nationally recognized Sustainable Innovation MBA program at the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business — an opportunity that grew […]

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Photo Gallery: Student volunteers visit the Farm

Saint Michael’s students spent time on the Farm at the beginning of the semester, helping to harvest lots of locally-grown produce.

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Saint Michael’s again lands in U.S. News ‘Best Colleges’

Saint Michael’s College is once again among the top National Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States, according to U.S. News & World Report in its 2021 Best Colleges listings. […]

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Faculty and staff changes for the 2020 fall semester

Here is the list of faculty changes as of July 1 reported from the College’s Academic Affairs Office, followed by a list of new staff who have joined us in […]

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It’s a new world for study-abroad organizers, students

An email that Saint Michael’s College’s Study Abroad Director Peggy Imai sent to key campus leaders on March 25 of this year reflects the unprecedented and sometimes nerve-wracking challenges that […]

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Safe efficiency, high spirits and hope greet students

The liberal arts training of Saint Michael’s College Director of Admission Michael Stefanowicz ’09 helped frame his perspective the morning of this year’s unorthodox but well-thought-out, safety-conscious and ultimately uplifting […]

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New Trustee leaders bring steady optimism to mission

The new Saint Michael’s Board of Trustees chair is Patricia Casey, a veteran enrollment professional who foresees the College enduring and ultimately thriving anew at the other end of a […]

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Saint Michael’s again in Princeton Review ‘Best Colleges’

Saint Michael’s College is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features Saint Michael’s again in the new 2021 […]

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New community ‘network’ targets pandemic challenges

Saint Michael’s College students this fall can join the COVID Action Network (SMC CAN!) to address and learn more about pandemic-related challenges alongside the faculty and staff collaborators who created […]

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Superior safety app allows slow phase-out of ‘blue lights’

As at an increasing number of other colleges nationwide, the success and popularity of an “app” for smartphones to keep students connected with campus Public Safety will allow Saint Michael’s […]

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Author Nicholas Carr to give 2020 Sutherland Lecture via Zoom

Saint Michael’s College Dean of Faculty Tara Natarajan announced this week that author, journalist and scholar Nicholas Carr, whose work focuses on the intersection of technology, economics and culture, will […]

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Now independent, Early Learning Center reopening

Following the closure of the Early Learning Center at Saint Michael’ s College in June, a small group of dedicated staff, parents and community members have worked tirelessly to re-establish […]

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Summer research projects arise thanks to funds, creative mentors

The COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped three Saint Michael’s students from doing meaningful summer research at the intersection of scientific and “quantitative” majors like math and statistics. Key elements behind […]

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Graduate Education team workshops support colleagues in pandemic

The Graduate Education Program at Saint Michael’s College works with inservice and preservice teachers. A team of St. Mike’s professors (Claudine Bedell, Tess Dussling, Rebecca Haslam, Amy Knight, Cathy Quinn, Amy Saks Pavese, […]

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Men’s Basketball Alumni Featured in New Nike Commercial

COLCHESTER, Vt. – Four Saint Michael’s College men’s basketball alumni will see themselves on television screens nationwide when Nike unveils its latest commercial in the inspirational “You Can’t Stop Us” […]

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Saint Michael’s embraces racial equity ‘Challenge’

Nearly 130 Saint Michael’s College faculty and staff members in July answered the “Challenge” to build purposeful habits surrounding racial equity through education, conversation and awareness over a 21-day stretch […]

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Mukeba ’12 to serve new state Racial Equity Task Force

“At times there are things that are not really planned and not your choice – you have to do it,” says Kyendamina (Cleophace) Mukeba ’12, a Saint Michael’s College political […]

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College announces new graduate certificate in Public Health Equity

The current pandemic and racial tensions have shed light once again on the inequities that exist in society, especially within our healthcare system.  In an effort to help solve these […]

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Playhouse spirit sparkles on for 2020, in legacy, anticipation

With the Saint Michael’s Playhouse’s 2020 season canceled due to a pandemic, Producing Artistic Director Chuck Tobin ’80 has had a lot of time during these hot months – normally […]

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Academic preparations: Innovation, engagement

Tara Natarajan, dean of the faculty at Saint Michael’s College, said two days of professional development with faculty on July 9 and 10 to prepare for the coming reopening amid […]

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Saint Michael’s responds to new order affecting international students

Saint Michael’s President Lorraine Sterritt responded to questions today regarding a new directive from Homeland Security that would require international students to take classes in person this fall despite limits […]

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St. Mike’s people join in the push for a COVID-19 vaccine

Craig Duffy ’06, a Saint Michael’s Spanish graduate and liberal arts enthusiast who became a supply-chain logistics specialist across varied industries, landed in January with the major Boston-area pharmaceutical firm […]

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Alumna teacher fills virtual classroom with love, support

In times of wavering optimism and instability, people are especially reliant on hope. Amanda Neary ‘06, a fourth-grade teacher at Hinesburg Community School and former Saint Michael’s College graduate student, […]

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Partnership boosts public health career opportunities

Silver linings are hard to find in a pandemic, but Saint Michael’s College students interested in public health careers are discovering heightened purpose and focus from the challenges that COVID […]

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St. Mike’s studies inform justice activism for sisters

When the Schneider sisters of Wells, ME — one a current student, one an alumna — read on social media a few days prior about a June 3 racial justice […]

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Dean’s list announcement

Congratulations to students named to Saint Michael’s College Dean’s list for Spring 2020. Click the following bold link to view: Spring 2020 Dean’s List Qualifications for Dean’s List A student […]

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Diverse experiences led to flexibility and a dream job for Susie Ellicks ‘18

Susie Ellicks ’18 says a demanding senior year at Saint Michael’s College directly prepared her for a job she now loves with the fast-growing and promising Burlington startup Mamava, where […]

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Saint Michael’s celebrates Class of 2020 in virtual ceremony due to pandemic

In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Saint Michael’s College and its 501 new graduates from the Class of 2020 figuratively marched out of, and into, uncharted territory during […]

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Faculty/Staff Career News June 2020

To read complete versions of these abbreviated news items, where you see a faculty name as a live link, click to reach the faculty member’s personal page. Then visit that […]

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In This Together: Edition 7

Staff in the College’s Marketing & Communications office are continuing to find and post stories from our community during these uncommon times brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve invited […]

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Dungy, Ouellette part of Ethan Allen Homestead event

Kathryn Dungy and Susan Ouellette of the Saint Michael’s history faculty will both be presenters for a four-part “New Virtual Symposium, Centennial of Women’s Suffrage: One Event, Many Perspectives” presented […]

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Loss of Will Marquess leaves void at Saint Michael’s

One of the most beloved souls of the Saint Michael’s College faculty, the gentle and brilliant longtime English instructor Will Marquess, died Monday, May 11 after a long illness. A […]

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Faculty collaborators funded for stress-in-space study

Saint Michael’s College faculty collaborators Melissa VanderKaay Tomasulo of neuroscience/ psychology and Dagan Loisel of biology learned this week that a “small-scale research grant” of $50,000 through Vermont Space Grant […]

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