Former Assistant US Attorney Timothy C Doherty, Jr has joined the northern New England law firm Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC. He began work in the firm’s Burlington office in May. Doherty worked for more than nine years in the criminal division of the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont, where he supervised investigations and prosecuted federal crimes, including complex narcotics and white collar crimes. His work involved complicated mail, wire, tax, and bank fraud matters as well as multi-jurisdictional firearm and drug trafficking cases.

DuBois & King announces that Steve Dumas, PE, CxA, CPMP, LEED AP, has achieved certification as a Commissioning Authority (CxA). The CxA is ANSI-accredited and recognized by the Department of Energy’s Better Buildings program and certifies professionals who manage and implement commissioning processes in new and existing buildings. Mr Dumas is DuBois & King’s Mechanical Engineering Department Manager and works from the firm’s South Burlington, Vermont office.

Jason Stockwell, an associate professor in the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and director of the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory, has received a Fulbright US Scholar Program award to France to study the impact of storms on lake systems around the world. The announcement was made by the US Department of State and the J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.