In just over three years’ time, Zachary Garafalo has gone from the dais at the 2010 Southern Vermont College commencement to an invited speaker at the White House as an emerging leader of the Obama Administration’s Champions of Change initiative.
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Gov. Peter Shumlin announced today that Burlington businessman Al Gobeille will take over as Chair of the Green Mountain Care Board, directing the board’s charge of curbing health care cost growth and reforming the way health care is provided to Vermonters. Gobeille will become Chair immediately.
Attorney Peter D. Van Oot of the northern New England law firm of Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC has been elected to the Nature Conservancy Vermont Chapter board of trustees. He began his two year term in April.
Clayton English, Pharm.D., BCPP, an Assistant Professor at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences’ Colchester Campus, has been named the 2013 Vermont Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (VtSHP) Pharmacist of the Year.
Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) has chosen Jan (Blittersdorf) Blomstrann, CEO of Renewable NRG Systems, Inc. as the 2013 recipient of the Terry Ehrich Award for Excellence in Socially Responsible Business.
Mayor Miro Weinberger today announced the appointment of Norman J. Baldwin, P.E., a 22-year veteran of the Department of Public Works (DPW) as City Engineer and Surveyor. Baldwin currently serves as Assistant Director of Public Works for DPW’s Technical Services Division.
Lutheran Social Services of New England (LSS) proudly announces that Dana Ramish has joined the company as chief operating officer and executive vice president.
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.
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).
As part of the Boston Red Sox’s “Celebrating Service” month of July, Southern Vermont College (SVC) Provost Al DeCiccio was recognized by the team as the civil servant of the game for his work in education on Friday night prior to a divisional showdown with the New York Yankees.
Dr. Mariko Silver has been selected as the 10th president of Bennington College. A leading educational, public policy, and international strategist, she has held prominent roles at Columbia University, at Arizona State University, in the administration of Arizona’s governor Janet Napolitano, and in the Obama administration.
Lang McLaughry Real Estate has announced that Kara Danaher has joined the firm as a licensed Associate. A native to Vermont, she has an understanding of the real estate market and will help match buyers to the home of their dreams and sellers to potential buyers. Having gone through both the buying and selling process, she understands that it can be both exciting and stressful.