Music Spring Performance Schedule

Professor Nathaniel G. Lew of the Saint Michael’s fine arts/music faculty recently shared this interesting lineup of public musical events on the Saint Michael’s College campus for the spring 2019 […]

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Lakota perspective on racism

Scotti Clifford, a member of the Lakota tribe, spoke recently at Saint Michael’s College about dismantling racism from a Lakota perspective. Professor Jerald Swope of the Media Studies and Digital […]

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Dean’s List announcement

Congratulations to students named to Saint Michael’s College Dean’s List for Fall 2018. Qualifications for Dean’s List A student who has completed a minimum of twelve credits of classes with […]

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MLK Week 2019

Read essays by faculty and staff on collective liberation theme>> Each year In January, Saint Michael’s College dedicates a week of events to the memory of Martin Luther King, known […]

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Service trips through MOVE

At a time when the most commonly heard news about Catholic institutions can feel distressingly or relentlessly negative or sad, about 50 Saint Michael’s College students and staff members recently […]

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Judge Cioffi during MLK week

Judge Nicholas Cioffi ‘61 said Saint Michael’s College has changed profoundly since he was a student from 1958 to 1961, and so has America’s judiciary and bar, for better and […]

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Study trip to Senegal

Africa is a continent of wonders that everyone should visit because it is where civilization and humanity began, say Laurence Clerfeuille and Moise St. Louis, the Saint Michael’s faculty-staff organizers […]

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Faculty and Staff Career News

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

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Matesol Partnerships

Chinese graduate students will complete one year of study in China before transferring to the MATESOL Program at Saint Michael’s College, where they will complete their degree. They will earn […]

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Data-Science

Analyzing “big data” is a growing field with great unfulfilled demand in industry and government. Many fields increasingly utilize statistical methods and large, complex data sets in routine practice. The […]

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Harvard’s Walton to be MLK speaker at Saint Michael’s

Jonathan L. Walton, an acclaimed Harvard University author, social ethicist and religious scholar, will be keynote speaker on Monday, January 21, during Saint Michael’s College’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation […]

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College announces new Vice President

Krystyna Davenport Brown, who has served Saint Michael’s College as associate vice president for development since November 2017, started work December 19 as the College’s new vice president for institutional […]

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Four of Vermont’s best offered Presidential Scholarships

Presidential Scholarships would pay full tuition for four of Vermont’s best and brightest high school seniors accepted in mid-December as early-admission applicants to Saint Michael’s College. The Presidential Scholarship is […]

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World awaits 70-plus St. Mike’s study-abroad students

  Peggy Imai, Saint Michael’s College’s director of study abroad, sent the following message to faculty in December: “Look around your classrooms, and I guarantee you that some of those […]

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Two students awarded Lacey Scholarship

Supported by funds from the Brian Lacey ’72 International Fellowship in Social Justice, one Saint Michael’s College student will spend a semester living, learning and serving in South Africa and […]

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Art meets science to produce mural of biodiversity

At first glance from across the room, a newly placed mural on the wall of the Saint Michael’s College Environmental Sciences lab in Cheray 123 looks to be an attractive […]

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Breakfast ceremony honors December graduates in style

Before he read the names of December 2018 Saint Michael’s College graduates during a short ceremony in the Dion Family Student Center Roy Room Sunday morning, Jeffrey Trumbower, the College’s […]

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Big turnout for mental health conference

The Vermont Principals Association conference was hosted by Saint Michael’s College this past Friday, November 30, with events taking place all day long across campus. Lecture rooms in Jeanmarie Hall […]

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Bush visited campus twice, honored MOVE

As mourners from across the nation gathered Wednesday morning in Washington to pay their respects and celebrate the life of former president George H.W. Bush at a state funeral at […]

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Rally aims to raise awareness on AIDS issues

Members of Saint Michael’s Student Global AIDS Campaign alongside other students and faculty of the Saint Michael’s community are organizing a rally/march for Friday, November 30 that will start  at […]

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School leaders engage mental health issues

Saint Michael’s College alumni, faculty and staff will be well represented among expert presenters about student-athlete mental health and concussions during an all-day Vermont Principals Association (VPA) conference this Friday, […]

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Notice to Campus Community – Fire in Colchester

A Message from Saint Michael’s College Public Safety Update on 11/28/18 at 12:04 pm. To our campus community: This is an update regarding the fire in Colchester. The fire has […]

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Student wins election to N.H. House seat

Saint Michael’s College student and newly elected New Hampshire state representative Denny Ruprecht ’21 says a lesson he learned growing-up hardscrabble in rural blue-collar New Hampshire is that “the greatest […]

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College’s first TEDx event finds success

Saint Michael’s College hosted its first ever TEDx event on Sunday, November 11. Alumni, faculty, and visiting speakers presented their ideas pertaining to the theme “The Uncertain Future.” TEDx events […]

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Author speaks of water crisis in Southwest

Melissa L. Sevigny is the author of two nonfiction books, Mythical River: Chasing the mirage of new water in the American Southwest and Under Desert Skies: How Tucson mapped the way to the […]

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African Mass performance in Chapel unique

A performance of “Missa Luba, a Mass in Congolese Style” on Sunday, November 18 in the Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel was “genuinely historically unique,” says Nathaniel Lew of […]

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Tributes flow at news of Don Rathgeb’s passing

When Donald Rathgeb retired in 1997 after 35 years of teaching drama, directing plays and shaping a prominent summer Playhouse on campus, his Fine Arts colleague Paul LeClair told a […]

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Lorrie Smith to be acting dean

Lorrie Smith of the Saint Michael’s College English faculty has been appointed by President Lorraine Sterritt to serve as Acting Dean for the balance of this academic year and into […]

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Tortolano plans seasonal sing-along concerts

  All in one concert, 17 Christmas and seasonal carols will be presented in a community sing-a-long at Saint Michael’s College Chapel on Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 3 p.m. […]

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The Farm throws a “Goodnight Garden” party

The Saint Michael’s College Organic Farm prepared for winter last Friday on October 26, 2018 by building a hoop house, planting garlic and celebrating the close of the season. This […]

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St. Mike’s student wins Miss Vermont USA title

Saint Michael’s College student Bethany Garrow, a sophomore business major from Rutland Town, VT, was crowned Miss Vermont USA 2019 on Sunday, Nov. 4, at the Spruce Peak Performing Arts […]

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VIDEO: Girls Rising author leads campus discussion

On Monday, October 22nd, Tanya Lee Stone visited Saint Michael’s College to discuss her book: Girl Rising, based on the 2013 documentary film of the same name. The documentary shares […]

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Post-attack prayers with Jewish friends seek peace

On Wednesday of this week (October 31), the Saint Michael’s College community joined in the sorrow and mourning of the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh […]

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MJD panel discusses Art and Activism

Three departments – Media Studies, Journalism and Digital Arts; Fine Arts; and Environmental Studies – came together to compose a panel of four inspirational individuals, Paul Gunter, Lionel J-M Delevingne, […]

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Cybersecurity focus of new IT initiative

In what is becoming an annual tradition, the Saint Michael’s College Department of Information Technology (IT) emphasized the importance of cybersecurity this past week.  Programming and events around campus emphasized […]

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College approves new majors in health fields

For Saint Michael’s College, where leaders hope students become properly trained to “do well and do good,” new majors in Health Science and Public Health approved by Trustees in October […]

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Fall show spotlights Tennessee Williams

This year’s Saint Michael’s College Theater Department’s fall semester Main Stage production will treat audiences to iconic scenes from the most revered works of Tennessee Williams, the tortured but brilliant […]

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NCAA speaker addresses student-athlete issues

Student athletes and their coaches arrived at the Roy Room fresh from practice Thursday night, many still wearing their Purple Knight gear and some carrying field hockey sticks and soccer […]

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Spirit and intellect intertwined, Sterritt tells Catholic group

At a well-attended breakfast gathering in the Pomerleau Alumni Center on Wednesday, October 10, Saint Michael’s College President Lorraine Sterritt told the Vermont Catholic Professionals — a new group initiated […]

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Nature shines on St. Francis Day blessing

Aside from a few random barks, Hally and and Rex the dogs with their owners appeared mostly serene and ready when Edmundite Fr. Michael Carter ’12 began his short and […]

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Posthumous induction honors ‘true Michaelman’

An afternoon ceremony on August 9, 2018 in the Pomerleau Alumni Center Fireside Lounge honored the late Paul J Palmer ’56, P’80, P’94, GP’11 with his Posthumous Induction into the […]

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Ambassador brings insight on Yeats, Irish America

Irish Ambassador to the United States Daniel Mulhall visited Saint Michael’s College on Monday, October 1, for an evening lecture at the McCarthy Recital Hall. His topic wasn’t world affairs, […]

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Ceremony honors scholars & teachers of Saint Michael’s

At this year’s annual Academic Convocation — a September tradition established in 1986 to honor Saint Michael’s College scholars and scholarship — more than 100 faculty, staff, students and College […]

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Interactive exhibit dazzles with maize

An installation at the McCarthy Art Gallery had its interactive performance component on Saturday, September 22 in the form of a guided, meditational meal of corn-based products. Amanda Turner Pohan’s […]

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Text of President’s Inaugural Address

Saint Michael’s College Inauguration D. E. Lorraine Sterritt, seventeenth president September 22nd, 2018   “I am among you as one who serves.” Luke 22:27 Madam Chairwoman, members of the Board […]

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Sterritt inaugurated as SMC’s first female president

Watch the full video of the Presidential Inaguration >> D. E. Lorraine Sterritt, 17th president of Saint Michael’s College and the first woman to hold that title, was direct, clear, optimistic […]

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Atom bomb survivor moves campus crowd

Students at Saint Michael’s College were given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear from atomic bomb survivors Yasuaki Yamashita and Shigeko Sasamori the evening of Thursday, September 20. These Hibakusha (survivors […]

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Journalist outlines Mueller investigation

Acclaimed author and journalist Garrett Graff spoke to a gathered group of students, faculty, staff and community members on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the McCarthy Arts Center about Robert Mueller, […]

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College instilled service ethos for NYC theater work

A creative launch pad for the hit Broadway show Hamilton was The Public Theater in New York City, where Heather Lessard Fichthorn ’12 is company manager. She told about 50 people, mostly […]

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Faculty changes with new semester

Following are the 2018 faculty changes since the start of last year (as of late August). They include three new tenure-track faculty — Allison Luedtke in Economics, Xinting Zhen in […]

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