Vermont’s own Hinda Miller received a Lifetime Achievement Award last night in Glasgow, Scotland, at the Sports Business Innovation Awards 2015, for invention of the “Jogbra”, a sports bra for women she co-invented in 1977.

The Sports Business Innovation Awards highlight innovation and achievement in sports related businesses in Scotland. Hinda’s involvement in the development of the sports bra for women, and subsequent business success story, were inspirational to guests attending the Glittering Awards Ceremony and to other award winners such as DiaryDoll and Findra.

Norwich University’s Sullivan Museum and History Center, the state’s only Smithsonian Affiliate, will host Dr. Tom Crouch, Senior Curator of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for a lunch-and-learn on Wednesday, April 8 at noon in Milano Ballroom, located in Roberts Hall.

Crouch’s presentation, “Mr. Lincoln’s Air Force: Military Aeronautics in the Civil War,” is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be served, and a book-signing will follow.

Lyndon State College will host a “Media and Social Justice” panel discussion on Tuesday, March 31 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Moore Community Room/ASAC 100. It is presented in partnership with Lyndon FAIR (Promoting Fairness, Awareness, Inclusion, and Relationships in our community) as part of Lyndon State’s on-going Year of Social Justice events and is free and open to the public.

National Bank of Middlebury has announced that Stacey Brown has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). She is currently an officer, and vice president, and until her promotion was the Finance Operations Manager. Ms. Brown received her Accounting degree from Champlain College and joined the NBM team a few short months later. Caroline Carpenter, President and CEO commented, “Stacey has been with NBM for 19 years working in customer service, accounting, loan services and finance..

SunCommon in Waterbury Center has hired Karen Nielsen as Community Solar Advisor, Dustin Bowman and Nicole Bourassa as Community Solar Membership Coordinators and Olga Martin as Community Solar Specialist.

Mindy S. Lubber, one of the world’s most influential leaders in harnessing capitalism for positive environmental outcomes, will be Green Mountain College’s 2015 commencement speaker on Saturday, May 16.

Hannaford Supermarkets today donated approximately $5,000 in food to the Vermont Foodbank as part of a hunger-relief campaign that produced more than $1 million in product and cash donations across five Northeast states, including $107,000 in Vermont.

Hannaford Helps Fight Hunger took place in December and included a you-buy-one, we-give-one component; Hannaford pledged to donate identical products when customers purchased specific shelf-stable items. The food donated Thursday included 109 cases of pasta, 88 cases of sauce, 146 cases of vegetables and 83 cases of cereal.

Bowl New England Inc., headquartered in Colchester, Vermont announces the addition of Bill Moller as Corporate Systems Administrator. Moller brings over a decade of IT experience and is responsible for building and maintaining the technical infrastructure required to support all of Bowl New England’s sixteen entertainment centers along the east coast. Moller worked most recently as Chief Information Officer at RainWorx, a South Burlington based online auction software firm.

The Retrovest Company is pleased to announce that Tom Currell has joined the organization as a Principal of the firm. Tom has worked with Retrovest in a consulting capacity since 2013 and brings over 23 years of experience in real estate development, project finance, public private partnerships, and urban revitalization. Over his career Tom has managed the development of more than 1,000 units of multi-family housing in addition to senior housing, mixed-use and single family housing development projects in multiple metropolitan locations.