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Loung Ung talks justice, activism

The author and Cambodian genocide survivor Loung Ung specifically credits her time as a political science major at Saint Michael’s College for kick-starting her role as an activist. Among the […]

Reunion: memories, fun and paying it forward

See photo gallery from Reunion >> Campus-building-named-for-Aubin-at-last>> Nearly a thousand Saint Michael’s College alumni and other guests returned to campus for Reunion 2018, which featured a wide assortment of events […]

The world’s a classroom for SMC students

Several Saint Michael’s students embarked right after Commencement with faculty leaders on deeply meaningful academic and personal adventures through study abroad, while many more anticipate longer overseas study experiences during […]

St. Mike’s volunteers rain goodwill

View photo gallery of Community Service Day activities>> Rain failed to dampen the spirit of Saint Michael’s College community members who went out this past Tuesday, May 15, to various […]

Diversity is our strength, Landrieu tells graduates

Watch video of Commencement>> View photo gallery of Commencement>> In his Commencement remarks to Saint Michael’s College 2018 graduates on Sunday, May 13, Mitch Landrieu, the recent mayor of New […]

Eileen O’Rourke new HR VP

Saint Michael’s College has hired an alumna as its Vice President of Human Resources. Eileen O’Rourke will start in August, Saint Michael’s President Jack Neuhauser announced this week. The president […]

Senior awards brunch 2018

As is tradition at Saint Michael’s College, the Thursday before Commencement weekend (May 10 this year) was celebrated with the Senior Awards Brunch. The event, which recognizes exceptional members of […]

Former ambassador to Syria visits Saint Michael’s

On Monday, May 1 at Saint Michael’s College, former U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford came to campus to give a lecture on what the United States is currently doing […]

Class leads to girl-mentoring program

An academic exercise in a Saint Michael’s management class became a popular and effective mentoring program for girls at Mater Christi School in Burlington this semester after a group of […]

2018 Symposium is vibrant & impressive

View a photo gallery from Academic Symposium>> Saint Michael’s College students from every discipline stood and delivered impressive research as part of oral presentations during the Friday and Saturday portions […]

National Honor Society Inductions 2018

In April, Saint Michael’s College takes the time to recognize its students for their outstanding achievements in the classroom. Last week, the college hosted a number of National Honors Society […]

Saint Michael’s shines on new ratings-website lists

“College Consensus” — a new college ratings website that aggregates publisher rankings and student reviews — recently published their ranking of the “Best National Liberal Arts Colleges 2018,” placing Saint […]

Business honors group hears professor

A successful graduate and a popular retiring veteran instructor shared wisdom as the Saint Michael’s Department of Business Administration and Accounting held its 15th Induction Ceremony of the Saint Michael’s […]

Tortolano to give organ concert

The acoustically reverberant Saint Michael’s College Chapel will feature the two-manual, 16-stop Casavant pipe organ in concert on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 7:30 p.m., when Dr. William Tortolano, professor […]

Students learn business dinner etiquette

Always let the interviewer sit down at the table first– and make sure you order something that’s easy to eat with a fork and knife. Those were some takeaways for […]

Jobs picture strong for accounting grads

A recent networking event for Saint Michael’s College accounting students with successful alumni accountants, considered alongside a recent Business Department profile about the career prospects of St. Mike’s accounting graduates, […]

Fulbrighters heading to Malaysia, Spain, Brazil

Three Saint Michael’s College students and a recent graduate learned this week that they have been awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Scholarships, making this “the most successful student Fulbright Scholarship […]

Guenther makes case against solitary confinement

How often do the non-incarcerated think about what goes on behind prison walls? Students and faculty members were called to do just that at the annual Sutherland Lecture on Wednesday […]

Five awarded funds for Hong Kong studies

Five Saint Michael’s College students learned in December that they have been awarded scholarships from the Freeman Foundation to participate in two-month professional internships in their specific fields of study […]

Mayor Landrieu to speak at Commencement

The 2018 Commencement speaker at Saint Michael’s College on May 13 at 10 a.m. in the Ross Sports Center will be New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, whose leadership in the removal […]

Student Employee Appreciation Week at St. Mike’s

During the week of April 9 through April 13, Saint Michael’s College will join hundreds of other colleges and universities in the U.S. in celebrating Student Employee Appreciation week! Our […]

One more launch for Will Marquess

“I’ve been involved with the Onion River from my first year at the college, 1984-85,” says Will Marquess of the Saint Michael’s English faculty, who helped preside Wednesday evening, April 5 in […]

Author explains how economics shapes politics

Economics drives our nation’s politics in powerful, specific ways, a prominent Dartmouth economist-author asserted with examples during a lecture in the Dion Family Student Center Tuesday. Charles Wheelan, PhD, Senior […]

NMR-equipment boosts science research here

The dedication on March 23 of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer in Cheray 213 was cause for celebration among Saint Michael’s College science faculty, administrators, and the family of […]

Common Text: ‘Hamilton the Musical’

The Common Text for the First-Year Seminar program in 2018-2019 will be Hamilton: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2015). Announcing the selection by campus email Monday was Peter […]

Alumni Appreciation Week at SMC

The week of March 19 was Alumni Appreciation week at Saint Michael’s College! As our students returned to campus from spring break, we celebrated those that passed through here before them. Throughout […]

Campus hosts film event for veterans

The Vermont-debut of the International Fly Fishing Film Festival to benefit Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing was on March 13, 2018 on the Saint Michael’s College campus in the McCarthy […]

Lecture speaker looks ahead a century for Judaism

“Judaism is hard,” and most authentically thrives only in community, posited Mark Oppenheimer, the popular journalist who was Thursday evening’s guest speaker for the annual Rabbi Max B. Wall Lecture […]

Group tackling AIDS/opioid issues wins grant

Vermont CARES – a statewide group that “works for and with Vermonters affected by HIV/AIDS to promote well-being through a continuum of prevention, support, and advocacy services”– is the recipient […]

SMC students win cash prizes at event

A team composed of five Saint Michael’s College students, accompanied by Professor Robert Letovsky of the Department of Business Administration & Accounting, competed in the 6th annual “Free Enterprise Marathon” (FEM) […]

Dickerson wins at SXSW startup event

(This story updates an earlier-posted preview, to include news of the Saint Michael’s graduate and his business partner winning the competition). The impressive budding tech and business career of Thomas […]

Lewis shares excitement for data, STEM careers

Alumnus Dan Lewis ’10 returned to Saint Michael’s College on Friday, March 2 for the Department of Math and Statistics Colloquium. His presentation, “Data Science in Unexpected Places,” focused on the […]

College expecting ash borer impacts, costs

Saint Michael’s College is preparing for the inevitable eventual campus impact of an insect called the emerald green ash borer, which has arrived in Vermont with the first known specimen […]

Spring play ‘Fuddy Meers’ is a ‘darkly comic thrill ride’

The play Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire, now in rehearsal at Saint Michael’s College for four performances March 21- 24 at 7 p.m. in the McCarthy Arts Center, jars and challenges its […]

College celebrates Douglass legacy

It was a happy Valentine’s Day at Saint Michael’s College this year, but more than that, it was a happy Douglass Day! Douglass Day is a celebration of the life […]

Writer-poet leads series on marginalized

On Wednesday evening, students and faculty gathered in the Roy Room at the Dion Student Center for the final session of a three-part educational series by guest speaker J Mase […]

Writer Oppenheimer to give Lecture

Mark Oppenheimer, PhD – writer, religion scholar, former “Beliefs” columnist for the New York Times and host of the podcast Unorthodox, will present a talk titled “Judaism in the Year 2118: Where will we […]

AG joins 2nd Amendment panel

The Saint Michael’s College campus chapter of the national group called Young Americans for Freedom sponsored a program about Second Amendment rights on Tuesday evening, featuring Vermont Attorney General T.J. […]

Professor advancing in ACLU leadership

Saint Michael’s College journalism professor Traci Griffith was elected to the Executive Committee of the National American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Board during a late-January meeting in Atlanta. “It’s an […]

College’s Model U.N. team does well

A delegation of Saint Michael’s College students made a strong showing as they represented the African nation of Angola during the large Harvard National Model U.N. in Cambridge, MA, this […]

College’s message to bias agitators: Not in our house

Saint Michael’s students poured into the Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel on Monday night for a mandatory meeting organized by the Office of Student Life. The meeting was announced […]

Saint Michael’s team tops in state as financial analysts

A Saint Michael’s College team of five business/accounting students on February 13 won the 2018 Vermont CFA Institute Research Challenge, a state qualifier for an annual global competition that provides […]

Hoop house allows planting to start

Even outdoors the weather was warming up, considering it was still winter in Vermont on Tuesday, February 13, and everyone agreed it felt “downright glorious” in the tropically-warm “hoop house” […]

Edmundites reflect on church-racism discussion

In light of last month’s discussions about race and privilege on the Saint Michael’s College campus during mid-January’s Annual MLK Week, members of the Society of Saint Edmund, the College’s […]

Chapel funeral honors Pomerleau

Remembering and honoring the force that was centenarian Burlington businessman and philanthropist Antonio Pomerleau during his late-morning funeral Mass in the campus Chapel on February 13, a Saint Michael’s College […]

Hubble data in, O’Meara’s fun begins

For the lucky handful of scientists who regularly use the Hubble Telescope to study galaxy and star formation – folks like astrophysicist John O’Meara of the Saint Michael’s College physics […]

Delanty to present work at Burlington library

Greg Delanty, a widely acclaimed Irish poet who is a longtime professor of English at Saint Michael’s College and a resident of Burlington, will appear at Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library […]

Community meets President-designate Sterritt

The full community of Saint Michael’s College — students, faculty, administrators and staff – packed into McCarthy Arts Center on campus Tuesday morning (January 30) to meet and welcome Dr. […]

Sterritt named 17th president of College

Dr. Lorraine Sterritt, a national leader in higher education with experience at some of America’s finest institutions, has been named the 17th president of Saint Michael’s College, a residential, liberal arts, […]

Panel discussion on race gets emotional

On a rainy Tuesday night during this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Week, students, faculty and staff gathered in the Roy Room, Dion 3th floor to discuss the “Cost of […]