The Board of Trustees at Southern Vermont College appointed Sarah Perkins Dahl, M.D., as a new Board Member at its recent meeting. Dahl is a Vermont native and medical doctor who retired from full-time practice in 2012. She ran a solo gynecology practice in Bennington from 2005 to 2012 and prior to that worked with Green Mountain Women’s Health.

The University of Vermont has named Nancy E. Mathews dean of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. She will begin her UVM tenure July 1.

Lorna-Kay Peal, President of the Board of Directors of VTIFF, is delighted to announce the appointment of two new board members who “bring their knowledge and experience in film culture, leadership and financial organization”:

Southern Vermont College (SVC) has announced that it will award the Honorary Degree of Humane Letters to Dr. Jane Altes, former Vice President for Academic Affairs and Interim President of Empire State College, and Daniel B. Ginsberg, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), Washington, DC, at its 87th Commencement on Saturday, May 10.