AllEarth Renewables, the award winning Verm0nt-based solar tracker manufacturer, has announced the hiring of Elizabeth Sengle to its growing sales team.

Sengle, of Hinesburg, will support the company’s growing sales efforts and power purchase agreement customer relations as a sales coordinator. She began her sales career with Proctor and Gamble and is the former owner of Wild Leek Kitchen Catering in Hinesburg. Sengle has a bachelor’s of arts from Hamilton College.

Todd and Elizabeth Warren, owners of Otter Creek Awnings and Vermont Custom Closets, has been selected by REMODELING magazine to join the REMODELING Big50. The Big50 awards were presented at a gala dinner at the Remodeling Leadership Conference in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2015. The 2015 Big50 winners are featured in the May issue of REMODELING, a national trade publication read by more than 130,000 professional remodeling contractors, with longer profiles of the winners posted on the REMODELING website, remodelingmag.com.

Congratulations to Elise Polli of the Nate Malley team at KW Vermont who was awarded Rookie of the Year at the 2015 NVBR Realtors of Distinction Awards Gala at the Doubletree recently.

Sterling College has announced the appointment of Christopher W Bordeau as the new director of advancement & alumni relations. With eight years in higher education development, Bordeau will lead the recently announced $9 million comprehensive campaign “Nourish the Roots: The Campaign for Sterling,” the largest campaign in the College’s history.

Mercy Connections thanks the more than 400 community members who attended the annual May Luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center. The room was full of generous sponsors and supporters.

Each year the Board of Directors selects a person who exemplifies mercy values and the example of Catherine McAuley, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy. This year, the board honored Roddy O’Neil Cleary with the Catherine McAuley award for her life-long service and fostering the dignity of every person.

Norwich University’s Assistant Vice President for International Education David Clubb has been awarded a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to participate in the week-long conference, “Germany Today 2015: Institutions of Higher Education and their Internationalization Strategies,” fromJune 14-20 in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Dresden.

Norwich hosts a dynamic and growing international presence in the German capital via its City Lab: Berlin microcampus, making Clubb’s participation in the upcoming conference a natural fit.

PC Construction has announced the hire of Ed Kellogg as regional manager responsible for leading the company’s Hudson Valley operations in New York. A 30-year construction veteran who built some of the landmark projects across the Hudson Valley, Kellogg brings to PC Construction a wealth of experience in construction project management and a deep understanding of the region’s business climate.

Garrison Nelson, senior member of the political science faculty at the University of Vermont and a well-known commentator of Vermont and national political trends, issues and personalities, was invested today as the first Elliot A. Brown Green & Gold Professor of Law, Politics and Political Behavior.

UVM president Tom Sullivan said Nelson “is richly deserving of this honor.” He shared comments from some of the more than 13,000 students Nelson has taught in his 47 years at UVM. He praised Nelson as a scholar, a teacher, commentator and public intellectual.

Brianne Hodge, PA, has joined Austin Sumner, MD, MPH and Laurance Thompson, MS clinical psychologist at the University of Vermont Health Network - Central Vermont Medical Center Occupational Medicine Department. Occupational Medicine supports businesses in maintaining the health, wellness, and safety of their workforce through prevention and management of work related injury, illness, and disability.