Speakers headline MLK Week events at Saint Michael’s

Two provocative and nationally prominent speakers on issues of race, identity and responsibility in America will headline a week of activities at Saint Michael’s College Jan. 25-29 to honor Martin Luther King Jr. […]

Faculty astrophysicist makes splash among peers

Saint Michael’s College physics professor John O’Meara has teamed with researchers Neil Crighton and Michael Murphy from Australia in the recent discovery of a distant, ancient cloud of gas that may contain […]

Phi Beta Kappa still gold standard as academic measure

As Phi Beta Kappa celebrated its 239th anniversary early in December, a student and faculty member at Saint Michael’s College each reflected on what it means to be a part of […]

Recent publications validate student experiences

Saint Michael’s students’ good work with faculty mentors is coming to fuller fruition recently with news of publications in prominent journals connected to that research and activity. Elise Genereux ’16, […]

Kiplinger names Saint Michael’s a 2016 ‘Best College Value’

Saint Michael’s College has been named to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of the Top 300 Best College Values of 2016. Introduced in 1998, the rankings highlight public schools, private universities and private […]

College takes stand on divisive rhetoric, bigotry

The following statement was circulated among the campus community of Saint Michael’s College on December 15 in response to recent world and national news. Statement from the President’s Cabinet Saint […]

Lacey award to help student do Ecuador study, service

Abbey Brophy ‘17, a Saint Michael’s College junior from Canton, CT, and the spring semester recipient of the Brian Lacey International Fellowship in Social Justice award, will take university classes […]

French at Saint Michael’s reflect on Paris attacks

While recent terrorist attacks in Paris were one day of horror that properly has commanded world attention, it’s important to remember that for refugees in Syria and other troubled parts […]

Transition to ‘tobacco-free’ campus gains visibility

As with individual smokers, college campuses benefit from a plan and ample support on the road to becoming “tobacco-free.” That’s why Mary Masson, Student Health Services director, was setting up […]

A student’s eye on recent campus presentations:

John Hockenberry visits Saint Michael’s American journalist and author John Hockenberry, a three-time Peabody Award winner, four-time Emmy winner and current host of radio program “The Takeaway,” visited Saint Michael’s […]

Congo Week speaker highlights conflict complexity

Students, professors, faculty and members of the surrounding community piled into Cheray 101 Thursday, October 29 for a lecture by Jason Stearns to conclude Saint Michael’s College’s fifth annual Congo […]

Fifty years out: A timeless call to talk, heal, hear, respect

Fifty years ago this week in 1965, a Second Vatican Council declaration called Nostra Aetate (“In Our Time”) fundamentally changed how Catholicism, and by extension Catholic colleges like Saint Michael’s, […]

Ageless lessons: Saint Michael’s stages Miller’s Crucible

The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s chilling re-telling of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts as a commentary on 1950s McCarthy-era red-baiting, will be the fall semester “Mainstage” theater production at […]

Congo Week: College, area refugees in common cause

Saint Michael’s College students and professors, along with members of the Burlington Congolese community, will come together for the College’s fifth annual commemoration of Congo Week, October 25-31. The joint celebration of […]

Pete Soons’ exit recasts top Fire-Rescue-Safety ranks

Leadership of Saint Michael’s College’s safety and emergency response agencies has a new look, both in structure and personnel. For more than 20 years, Pete Soons ’82 held the dual-role […]

Center for Women and Gender has new director

T-shirts sporting powerful messages surrounding sexual assault blew in the breeze Thursday as they hung between trees by the chapel for the 25th annual Clothesline Project, sponsored by the Center for […]

Biology graduate returns to ‘grow’ garden learning

Kristyn Achilich ’05 brings a lot to Saint Michael’s College. It was true 15 years ago when she arrived to Lyons Hall as a first-year biology student from Maine in […]

Bishop helps Chapel note 50th on Saint Michael feast

Two “Churches” were brand new to the Saint Michael’s College campus 50 years ago this month in 1965, and they’ve been together since. To open the 4 p.m. Saint Michael […]

Ceremony bears witness to liberal arts vitality

During his Academic Convocation address September 25 in the McCarthy Arts Center, faculty astrophysicist and last year’s Scholarship Award winner John O’Meara spent some minutes efficiently and entertainingly solving the […]

Edmundite trio to attend Washington Papal Mass

Three members of the Society of Saint Edmund, founding order of Saint Michael’s College, will be attending Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception with Pope Francis on Wednesday, […]

Major NSF grants for cosmic studies include O’Meara

With the help of two recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling close to $1.2 million for him and collaborators at top universities, Saint Michael’s College astrophysicist John O’Meara will […]

In new space, education is what you make of it

High-visibility space custom-designed for creative tinkerers with a high-tech flair opened recently in the Dion Family Student Center at Saint Michael’s College. A small crowd gathered on Tuesday afternoon, September […]

Author visit enriches “common text” experience

This year saw a new twist to the “common text” tradition at Saint Michael’s College when for the first time the author of a year’s chosen book visited campus to […]

Symposium digs to heart of pope’s ecology challenges

John Allen delivers the keynote address at Tuesday evening’s Symposium on Pope Francis and ecology. Below, Joseph Gainza, at podium, and Laurie Gagne, behind him, offer opening remarks. With his […]

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, […]

Connecting, reflecting: New arrivals move in

An early-morning coffee run to Dunkin’ Donuts set the utterly positive tone of Move-In Day 2015 at Saint Michael’s for Nicole Noce’16, a Resident Assistant in Lyons Hall. As Noce […]

Wellness Center focuses on both body & mind

To treat student wellness issues more holistically, Saint Michael’s College health staff and personal counselors now are working side-by-side in the former longtime campus home of the Media Studies, Journalism […]

New faculty and staff join Saint Michael’s

Here are the names and backgrounds of new faculty and staff joining Saint Michael’s College since last year who will be part of the community as a new semester starts […]

Saint Michael’s pair taking long way home – by canoe

Saint Michael’s College students know how to think outside of the box – or for that matter, outside of the plane, train or automobile. One of them, Jack O’Callaghan ’17, […]

Lacey award helps student study Tanzania water issues

Meghan VanStry ’17, a Saint Michael’s College rising junior from Medford, MA, and recent recipient of the Brian Lacey International Fellowship in Social Justice Award, aims to combine passions for […]

Local marketing pro Alex Bertoni joins Saint Michael’s

Alessandro “Alex” Bertoni, Saint Michael’s College’s new director of marketing and communications since July 20, feels he’s landed at an institution that is an academic rising star with a compelling […]

Saint Michael’s again among Princeton Review “Best 380”

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 2016 edition of […]

A new perspective

Traffic in and out of Dean Jeff Ayres’ first-floor office in Founders Hall is steady and often outbound as he heads to meetings with departments, committees, councils and other groups […]

Kenny builds career on bringing out best in others

(This article appeared in the Summer 2015 Saint Michael’s College Magazine) There is a sweet irony for Chris Kenny ’86 M’98 as he reminisces about his first day as an […]

A walk around The Waking

William Marquess, author of this essay from Saint Michael’s College Magazine’s Summer 2015 issue, is an instructor of English at Saint Michael’s. This essay is derived from the address he gave at […]

Scholarship honors Messuri’s devotion to students

Toni Messuri calls her recent honor “fruitional,” which is an uncommon word. Yet, it’s an uncommon recognition: an endowed scholarship in her name, given by the family of a 2014 […]

A weekend to remember, before marching on

(A version of this story appeared in the Summer 2015 Saint Michael’s College Magazine as a sidebar to the main feature on the Edmundite Southern Missions, which can be read […]

The Bridge: Missions connect Saint Michael’s, Selma

It’s a small city of storied civil rights actions, tensions and milestones. It’s seen dramatic events, tragedy and triumph. In Selma, Alabama, there is history. There is hope. And there […]

Program lets underserved students ‘try out’ college

Forty students from the Adirondacks, central New York, New York City, and Kentucky will have the opportunity to try out college, as part of the CFES College Explore program at […]

Joel Ribout joins Saint Michael’s facilities office

Joel Ribout, Saint Michael’s College’s new associate director of facilities since June 15, grew up in northern Ontario, Canada, took up architecture during college in Ottawa and was an architect […]

Disciplines cohere in new neuroscience major

In a way, liberal arts education always has been about the brain. But with the introduction of a new neuroscience major this year at Saint Michael’s College, students will have […]

Lincoln brings broad higher-ed experience to Athletics

Tacy Lincoln, an experienced athletics administrator at the University of Vermont, has been hired as an associate director of athletics at Saint Michael’s College, Director of Athletics Chris Kenny ’86 […]

Global treks pack loads of learning into weeks

Short-term faculty-led international trips aren’t new at Saint Michael’s College, but never before this year have so many professors taken so many students to such an interesting variety of places for […]

Summer researchers to mentors: What’s next?

Tables turned on Saint Michael’s College faculty mentors for the third and final summer research lunch in Dion Family Student Center on Tuesday, July 14, as their student understudies had […]

College joins select group of Peace Corps Prep sites

The Peace Corps and Saint Michael’s College today announced a new partnership that will offer students a unique combination of undergraduate coursework and community service that prepares them for a […]

Summer-research lunch logs progress, not perfection

Even setbacks are progress for those learning to do proper scholarly research. “Too often with students starting research, when they don’t get expected results, they feel they’ve failed, but those […]

Curriculum, opportunities grow along with two gardens

During a break from weeding, composting and planting late in May at the College’s “old” organic garden down the hill from the jug-handle across Route 15 from campus, Amanda Kellner’ […]

Professor-therapist-author challenges orthodoxies

Modern society suffers from a troubling over-reliance on pharmaceuticals in the treatment of depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and other common psychological or psychiatric conditions, says Saint Michael’s College Psychology Professor Ronald […]

Math students present research at spring conference

A robust culture of research collaboration among students and their professor-mentors is becoming ever more an identifier of Saint Michael’s College. One good example was this past spring semester: On […]

Stone artist hatches bench-scope project

A curious group of about 30 people gathered at noon on Thursday, June 11, on the west side of the library lawn near McCarthy to watch as stone mason, designer […]