Former Administration Secretary Neale F. Lunderville will join Green Mountain Power in February as Leader of Enterprise Innovation, GMP President and CEO Mary G. Powell announced Monday.
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The UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) welcomes Eric Hernandez as an Assistant Professor in the civil engineering program. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Hernandez received his PhD in civil engineering as a Fulbright scholar in 2007 from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He will teach CE173 Concrete Design during the 2011 Spring semester.
Sona Iyengar, a Burlington resident with 18 years professional writing experience, recently opened Sona Writes, a writing and communications business in downtown Burlington.
Yestermorrow Design/Build School has hired José Galarza as the school’s first Director of Semester Programs. This new position was created to help launch Yestermorrow’s Sustainable Design/Build Semester Program for undergraduates in Fall 2011 and a graduate-level Integrative Design/Build Semester in Spring 2012.
Vermont Family Network (VFN) is pleased to welcome its new President/CEO Pam McCarthy who has served as the Vermont Agency of Human Services (AHS) Field Director in Franklin and Grand Isle Counties since 2004.
Six attorneys with the law firm Paul Frank + Collins have been named among the top litigators in Vermont in the fourth annual publication of Benchmark Litigation. The attorneys recognized are:
The Stern Center for Language and Learning held its 27th Annual Meeting.
Newly elected officers are:
• Bob Crews of South Burlington, Chair. He is Senior Vice President –
Principal at Hickok and Boardman Group Benefits.
• Eve Pratt Hoar of South Burlington, Vice-Chair and Treasurer. She is
Program Manager Physician Advisory Boards at ALLSCRIPTS.
The American Heart Association’s named Joy Blandford to the position of Director of Go Red for Women and the Start! Heart Walk in the state of Vermont.
Blandford, originally from Atlanta, Ga., began the job in late September.
Jeffrey Corrigan has accepted the position of Vice President of Human Resources at the Brattleboro Retreat. Corrigan had filled the role on an interim basis since October while the Retreat conducted a national search to replace Kathleen Brooks who retired in September.
Mary Burns, President & CEO of the Greater Burlington YMCA, has recently been appointed to two committees with national reach by YMCA of the USA (Y-USA)—the national resource office for the Y.
A love of children and a desire to make a difference in a community setting drew Elizabeth Baez to health care and specifically the pediatrics practice at the Gifford Health Center at Berlin.
Baez, a pediatric nurse practitioner, has joined experienced Barre-area pediatrician Dr. William Gaidys at the Gifford health center off Airport Road in Berlin.
DuBois & King, Inc., consulting engineers, announce that Timothy W. Dall, P.E., LEED AP, a Senior Engineer in the firm’s Structures Group, has received the designation of Model Law Structural Engineer (M.L.S.E.) by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). Mr. Dall also received certification by the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB).