The Howard Center in Burlington, a provider of mental-health, developmental-disability and substance-use services in Chittenden County, has hired Catarina Campbell as the agency's first director of diversity, equity and inclusion. Campbell joins the center from the University of Vermont's Women and Gender Equity Center, where they served as program and leadership coordinator.

Mike Korkuc, a longtime volunteer who has helped protect and expand loon populations at Lake Dunmore and surrounding lakes for 15 years, has been named the winner of Green Mountain Power's 2022 GMP-Zetterstrom Environmental Award.

Two Norwich University faculty members participated in the US Army War College's annual national security seminar in Carlisle, PA, June 5-9. Tara Kulkarni, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Global Resilience and Security, and Travis Morris, associate professor of criminal justice, were among 168 business, government, academic and community leaders selected from across the country to take part in the weeklong academic seminar alongside students of the War College.