- Declan McCabe associate professor of biology, and students Erin Doyle, Jacqueline Cote, Ian Meyers, Brian Cunningham and Alexandra Canepa presented research funded in part by Vermont EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) at the Benthic Ecology Meetings, March 4-7, at Texas A&M University.
- Mark Nelson ’91 and his wife, Sheila, established the Alumni Fund for Undergraduate Research at Saint Michael’s College, with a $10,000 gift and a pledge to add $10,000 a year for four more years. The new fund is for promising students regardless of major, who could through research explore their field of study in a more focused way.
- Groups of students from Nicaragua and Panama spent two months on campus this past winter as participants in a U.S. Department of State-funded program that provides an eight-week academic English language course, along with an intensive introduction to American society and culture.
- Author of Private Guns Public Health and scores of other studies of public health, Professor David Hemenway of the Harvard School of Public Health, gave the annual Omicron Delta Epsilon economics honor society induction lecture on February 24, titled “Successes in Preventing Injury and Violence.”
- The Corporation for National and Community Service honored Saint Michael’s with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities, the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement.
- Twenty-eight students attended the the Region I American College Theatre Festival from January 27 to February 1. Andrew Parise ’10, Brendan O’Leary ’10, Nathaniel Beliveau ’11 and Katherine Clark ’10 were nominated for excellence in acting.They competed in the Irene Ryan Acting Competition at the festival with acting partners Laura Michelle, Kevin Parise, Julia Watson and Josh Bardier.
- New members of the Saint Michael’s community include Erin Collins ’06, named assistant director of Edumundite Campus Ministry for Community Service, with principal focus on the MOVE program; Chris Bernier ’04, the new assistant director for alumni and parent relations; and Susan J. Moses, who has rejoined Saint Michael’s as a major gifts officer, with particular focus on planned giving. Moses was director of planned giving from 2003 to 2006.
- Michael Bosia, assistant professor of political science, gave a talk titled “AIDS and Science: The Post Colonial Politics of Act Up Paris” at the Maison Française at Columbia University on February 19.
- William Grover, professor of political science, and his co-author recently completed the Eighth edition of their book, Voices of Dissent, published March 1.
- Jeffrey Trumbower, dean of the college, has published an essay entitled “Teaching About Religion in Religiously Pluralistic Contexts: Sensitivity, Academic Rigor, and Justice,” in A Twenty-First Century Approach to Teaching Social Justice: Educating for both Advocacy and Action, Richard Greggory Johnson III, ed., (Peter Lang, 2009).
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