Mercy Connections, a Burlington-based nonprofit that empowers people to make significant life changes through education, mentoring, entrepreneurship training and community, has added four new staff members to its team.
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Frances Carr, professor of pharmacology at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and a member of the UVM Cancer Center, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
Vermont State Police have announced the promotion of Sergeant Doug Norton from acting lieutenant and commander to lieutenant and station commander at the Rutland Field Station.
Omega Optical Holdings, a precision optics platform backed by Boston-based Artemis Capital Partners, announced that Mike Ransford has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer. Ransford joins OOH after recently retiring from IDEX Corporation, where he held various roles for IDEX Health and Sciences.
Multimedia journalist Olivia Lyons, former chief of WCAX-TV's Rutland bureau, has joined Chamber & Economic Development of the Rutland Region as communications and marketing manager.
Mike Hickey has joined the leadership team at Keller Williams Vermont as the company's new director of productivity.
Attorney Pamela Eaton has been elected as director and shareholder at the Burlington-based law firm Paul Frank + Collins. A graduate of George Washington University and Gonzaga Law School, Eaton joined PF+C’s litigation team as an associate attorney in 2015. Her practices focuses primarily on civil litigation and appeals.
Two Vermont engineers have been named tops in their profession for 2022 by the state's professional engineering societies.
Main Street Landing, an environmentally and socially conscious redevelopment company in Burlington, has promoted Owen Lapierre to director of buildings and grounds. Lapierre, who has worked at Main Street for 12 years, has assumed all property management and construction projects at the company.
Danaher Attig & Plante, a full-service tax and advisory firm in South Burlington, announced that Sara Gyselinck has been promoted to partner. In this position, Gyselinck provides tax and advisory services to a diversified client base, including high-net-worth individuals; closely held businesses; trusts; and estates.
Vermont Conservation Voters presented this year’s Environmental Rising Star Awards to Representatives Gabrielle Stebbins of Burlington and Dane Whitman of Bennington. The awards are given biannually to first-term legislators who have stepped up and been effective champions of VCV priority issues.
Burlington resident Melissa Davidson, MD, a faculty physician leader at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, was invested Feb 7 as the inaugural holder of the Howard Schapiro, MD’80, and Janet Carroll, MSN, MPH, Green & Gold Professorship in Anesthesiology.