Place Creative Co. a Burlington based brand advertising and communication agency, has hired two new employees.

Jordan Meserole, as Senior Designer, has experience developing concepts and design work for the Merchants Bank, Champlain College, SymQuest with had been with PostScript Inc. since 2007. She will be working with Place clients on concepts and design solutions for a variety of brands. She graduated from University of Miami, FL.

How does eating a Florida tomato in Vermont support migrant slavery? Investigative journalist Barry Estabrook will address that question in a talk titled “Slavery, Tomatoes & Social Justice on Your Plate” at Saint Michael's College on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in the McCarthy Arts Center.

Estabrook writes that the modern tomato has become “as devoid of plant nutrients as a pile of moon rocks.” In his book Tomatoland he interviews tomato farmers, migrant laborers, scientists and others and presents a scathing account of what has gone wrong with industrial agriculture.

Thomas Lahiri, M.D., medical director of Pediatric Pulmonology at Vermont Children’s Hospital at Fletcher Allen and Associate Professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, has been selected to receive the D. Robert McCaffree Humanitarian Award from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and the CHEST Foundation.

MyWebGrocer is pleased to announce nine new additions to their team. The new members join the departments of system analysts, account managers, digital advertising sales executives, and software engineers.

Bill Nordberg joins MyWebGrocer as a new systems analyst on the Plan2Gro team. Mr. Nordberg comes to the company from a range of experience in the semiconductor and telecom industries. Mr. Nordberg has been a resident of Burlington for ten years and in his personal time enjoys hiking, kayaking, and sailing.

Dr. James N. Weinstein, President of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) Clinicand Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Sciences. Membership in the IOM is considered the highest honor in the fields of health and medicine.

“This an enormous honor,” said Dr. Weinstein. “I am pleased and humbled to join an organization that has had an unparalleled impact on the field of medicine and medical practice.”

Dr. Steven Craig DuBoff of Rutland, VT earned Diplomate status within the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI) on August 19, 2011. Dr. DuBoff is the first and only dentist in the state of Vermont to have received these credentials.

Larry Sudbay, President and Chief Executive Officer of SymQuest® Group, the region’s leading provider of network and document technology solutions and services, is pleased to announce the promotion of Lonnie King to Connectivity Engineer. King was formerly a technician servicing SymQuest’s customers’ Kyocera, Canon and HP printers and MFPs and prior to that he worked at Laureate Learning Systems in the role of IT support. King has earned his certification in C++ programming from Champlain College.

DuBois & King, Inc, consulting engineers announce that Peter C. Bero, P.E., has joined the firm’s Transportation Department as a Senior Bridge Engineer and Project Manager. Mr. Bero’s experience includes inspections, replacement, and rehabilitation of single and multiple span steel and concrete structures, as well as historic steel truss bridges. Mr. Bero resides in Essex and works in the firm’s Williston, Vermont office. DuBois & King provides multidiscipline engineering services from offices in Randolph, Williston, and Springfield, Vermont, and Bedford, New Hampshire.