St. Mike’s student helps ID new frog species in Ecuador

A Saint Michael’s College student has identified a new species of frog in the Ecuadorian eastern cloud forests during her study-abroad research this past spring semester. Mindee Goodrum ’18 is […]

Announcement from Board Chair Mary-Kate McKenna

The end of this academic year culminated in what many have called the best commencement in memory. Having been at so many graduations, I can tell you it was the […]

Saint Michael’s College Helps Veterans Grow

It was a busy day for Kristyn Achilich and Saint Michael’s College’s Garden Program on Thursday, May 25. The Permaculture garden was filled with about 25 people in association with […]

President announces plan to leave College in June 2018

Saint Michael’s College President John J. Neuhauser announced plans to leave the College in June of 2018 in a memo to the College community on May 26, 2017. Named 16th president […]

St. Mike’s community wishes ‘Happy Trails’ to retirees

See a photo gallery of retiree event in Dion>> The Saint Michael’s community gathered in Dion Student Center’s Roy Room late in the afternoon on Monday, May 22, to honor […]

Service Day also an occasion to honor long-timers

View photo gallery of Service Day teams in action>> The 8th annual Saint Michael’s College Community Service Day on May 17, 2017 brought together nearly 150 faculty and staff into […]

Dunford exhorts graduates to moral courage, service

Enjoy a full photo gallery from Commencement>> “It’s never about you,” said Gen. Joseph Dunford ’77, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told the Saint Michael’s College […]

Class of 2017 gives honors, thanks at Senior Awards Brunch

View most recent 10 images at top of College’s Flickr Photo Gallery for more photos from the Senior Awards Brunch. As is tradition at Saint Michael’s College, the Thursday before […]

Ouellet funds will help intern advocate for women

Summer Colley ’18, a Saint Michael’s College junior political science major from Colchester whose studies and campus activities focus on gender studies and women’s rights, is the inaugural recipient of […]

Saint Michael’s honors high schools’ ‘Unsung Heroes’

In honor of National Teacher Appreciation Week, Saint Michael’s College invited current first-year students to nominate heroic teachers from their high schools — the teachers who truly made a difference […]

Saint Michael’s College celebrates Teacher Appreciation Week

Saint Michael’s College is celebrating National Teacher Appreciation Week by recognizing our hardworking faculty and all the work they do on campus. Below are some select quotes from Saint Michael’s […]

New award honors beloved Grace Kelly as she retires

The Saint Michael’s College Student Association executive board, which sets policy and allocates funds to student organizations on campus, surprised longtime adviser Grace Kelly ’81 during this year’s S.A. year-end […]

Tortolano to give organ concert in Chapel on May 23

William Tortolano, professor emeritus of fine arts at Saint Michael’s College, will give his 51st concert on the Casavant organ in the College’s Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel on […]

Academic Symposium 2017 under way, impressive as ever

Two high-energy campus gatherings Wednesday displayed and celebrated the work and experiences from two popular Saint Michael’s College majors – media studies, journalism and digital arts (MJD), and psychology, setting […]

Alliance helps low-income families access higher education

Saint Michael’s College has been invited to join the 30 founding members from the nation’s most respected colleges and universities in a new initiative to substantially expand the number of […]

Event honors St. Mike’s community’s civic engagement

Vermont college students, faculty, and staff gathered on Friday, April 7, 2017 at the Community College of Vermont’s Montpelier Campus to celebrate individual contributions and the collective impact of higher […]

College certified as Bee Campus USA affiliate

Last week Saint Michael’s College and Bee Campus USA announced that Saint Michael’s was the 23rd educational institution in the nation to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee […]

Stephanie Lewis to study in Greece on Fulbright

For the fourth year in a row, a Saint Michael’s College student is the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright award to support extended and intensive international scholarship in the coming […]

Conservative voices weigh in during Dion panel discussion

With its focus on politically, socially or economically “conservative” voices among the Saint Michael’s community, Tuesday evening’s panel discussion in the Dion Family Student Center Roy Room represented vital values […]

Global Eyes Photography winners announced

Following are the winners, announced during a ceremony in the Durick Library Dailey Room Thursday evening, April 6, of the 18th Annual Photography Competition for Saint Michael’s College students who […]

Combined college choruses to join forces for Mozart Mass

Three Vermont collegiate choirs will combine forces later this month to sing one of the great masterworks of the choral literature, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Coronation Mass. Composed in 1779 for the […]

Maple trees pose a rare threat

Due to this winter’s unusual February warm weather followed by the severe cold snap in March, experts say that Maple trees pose a particular, once in a generation risk. “In […]

Arun Gandhi guides students on non-violence

In Bombay, India, the boat from South Africa docked, and Arun Gandhi and his wife boarded the boat to meet their friend. Instead, the first person they were greeted by […]

Saint Michael’s chefs win cooking competition

The chefs from Saint Michael’s College are winners for the second year in a row. Saint Michael’s, represented by Jeff Brogan and Karen Taylor, won the third annual Vermont First […]

French priest tells of seeking Holocaust mass graves

The Roy Room in Dion Student Center swelled with Saint Michael’s community members for the 37th annual Rabbi Wall Lecture series. Rev. Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, was the […]

Terry Tempest Williams gets at the nature of things

“I don’t know when I have felt such a spirit of place, and I mean that,” said Terry Tempest Williams, internationally celebrated environmental author, activist and defender of America’s wild […]

Students compete in Free Enterprise Marathon again

Saint Michael’s College sent a team of students to participate in the 5th Annual Free Enterprise Marathon held March 9 at SUNY Plattsburgh. Charles Herbert, Emily Tarr, and William (Alex) Winkelmann […]

Tanzanian Fulbright scholar Msoka to visit campus

Fulbright Scholar and Professor Colman Titus Msoka, an urban sociologist from Tanzania, will be coming the campus of Saint Michael’s College under the auspices of the Outreach Lecturing Fund this […]

St. Mike’s team pitches Vermont-branded products

The team of four Saint Michael’s College Accounting/Business majors whose startup concept is known as Vermont Chill Company represented the College at the 2nd annual LaunchVT Collegiate event, held on Friday […]

Letovsky appointed as LaMarche Chair in business

Saint Michael’s College Professor Robert Letovsky recently was honored with a three-year appointment as the David LaMarche Endowed Chair of Business Administration and Accounting, effective Fall 2017. President Jack Neuhauser […]

Princeton physicist Bialek to share his view of life

William Bialek, a nationally renowned physicist who studies the extremes of physical phenomena and their connection with living systems, will speak at Saint Michael’s College on Tuesday, April 4 at 5:30 […]

Student Veterans Association hosts Unity Festival

Students flooded Dion Student Center on Saturday, March 4 to play games, throw pies in their friend’s faces, take pictures at the photo booth and lined up for the food […]

Students excited to serve on 5 MOVE spring break trips

To help address a wide range of justice issues, Saint Michael’s College student-service groups and staff leaders are departing this coming Saturday, March 11, to locations around the United States, […]

Joint Chiefs Chair Dunford to speak at Commencement

U.S. Marine Corps General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., a 1977 graduate of Saint Michael’s College and the nation’s highest-ranking military officer since 2015 as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]

Edmundites say they are all-in with students, College

“Coming together” is the best way to propel Saint Michael’s College and its founders forward, suggested Rev. Stephen Hornat ’72, superior general of the Society of Saint Edmund, which evidently […]

Teams of St. Mike’s finance students compete and learn

Two student teams from Saint Michael’s College applied their financial-analyst skills to a case study in competition against teams from three other Vermont colleges on February 8, 2017, with judges scoring […]

“The Arsonists” is “explosive” spring Mainstage Production

The Arsonists by Swiss playwright Max Frisch, billed as “an explosive comedy” that also is a 1950s-era parable exploring the idea of the “innocent bystander,” will be the spring semester Mainstage […]

Holy Land study trip gives students sense of sacred space

A goal of their recent winter-break study trip to the Holy Land for Saint Michael’s faculty leaders Edward Mahoney and Sajida Jalalzai of Religious Studies was that their 12 student-participants […]

NPR war reporter Bowman touts liberal arts during visit

Watch recording of full panel presentation with Bowman and veterans>> “We need more people with liberal arts education, especially these days,” said Tom Bowman, National Public Radio’s longtime war correspondent […]

Accepted students experience Saint Michael’s up-close

The chance to sample a Saint Michael’s College experience brought scores of enthusiastic accepted students and their families to campus on Sunday and Monday, Feb. 19 and 20. First came […]

NPR war reporter Tom Bowman to speak at St. Mike’s

Saint Michael’s alumnus and NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman ’77 will be presenting on campus on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 6 p.m. in the McCarthy Arts Center at Saint Michael’s […]

Julia Wagner ’18 to present research on Capitol Hill in April

English major Julia Wagner ’18 of South Burlington, VT, learned this week that her research about a pioneering World-War II-era female shipyard welder with Saint Michael’s connections, Peggy Citarella, has […]

Liturgical Ensemble & Singers well-received on Long Island

On their annual winter tour, 35 members of the Saint Michael’s College Liturgical Ensemble and Singers offered music for Catholic Mass at two Catholic high schools and two churches on […]

Bishop Coyne ordains Brother Carter, another, to diaconate

During a well-attended special 11 a.m. Mass on February 11 in the Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel on campus, Burlington Bishop Christopher Coyne presided at the ordination to the […]

Busy St. Mike’s student veterans reeling off successes

A success beyond expectations this year for the busy Saint Michael’s College Student Veterans of America (SVA) chapter is the growing campus group of “Project Healing Waters,” a national enterprise […]

College joins Coalition to promote access, affordability

Saint Michael’s College will be joining more than 100 colleges and universities as part of the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success. The Coalition is a diverse group of public […]

Students, instructors loving new Scientific Imaging Facility

Class time was over and nobody was leaving at 4:30 p.m. one day last week in the new Scientific Imaging Facility on the third floor of St. Edmund’s Hall, where […]

Jay Rosen addresses journalism’s changing landscape

Watch recording of Jay Rosen’s full presentation at Saint Michael’s College>> Jay Rosen, a prominent activist scholar and proponent of “public and civic journalism” in the service of more robust […]

“Othering” hurts campus, nation, world, panelists say

Roily and confounding currents in American society and world geopolitics overwhelm us and make it hard to settle on specific actions that preserve hope and sanity, posited panelists in a […]

Statement on recent Executive Orders

Dear Members of the College Community, This afternoon I returned from a meeting of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. Our meeting these past several days was centered around […]