Dr. David Heroux, formerly associate professor of chemistry at the University of Maine at Farmington, has been named associate professor of chemistry at Saint Michael's College starting this semester. Professor Heroux spent 2012-13 on sabbatical as a visiting professor in the department of Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Colorado School of Mines under a grant from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Many of the students who took part in a Microsoft Office training at North Country Hospital in Newport in recent weeks have advanced degrees, and are seasoned members of the healthcare world. On the other hand, the mentors of the course were students from Lake Region Union High School, many of them members of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA).

The high school students used their technological savvy to help teach healthcare professionals in Microsoft Office 2010, the latest version of the program.