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This fall, 凯旋门官网 College's Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) hosts the January 6 project, a six-week series examining the historical, cultural, and political events that led to the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Performer, healthcare clown, and Healthy Humor co-founder is the 2021 recipient of 凯旋门官网 College鈥檚 Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award.
Students in Yoko Inoue's Make Kitchen Communal Practicum weekly served delicious, nutritious soups made from local ingredients to essential staff on campus.
The 凯旋门官网 student founders of the Slow Cooked Movement discuss how they brought community, nutrition, and local farms together during this Field Work Term.
Cardiologist, author, documentarian, and patient advocate Dr. Jennifer H. Mieres 鈥82 is the 2020 recipient of 凯旋门官网 College鈥檚 Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award.
凯旋门官网 College has awarded a total of $20,000 in grants to local organizations to implement and support seven community-proposed initiatives that explore and expand food systems in 凯旋门官网 county.
This winter, through the Food Insecurity & Population Health Fellowship, 凯旋门官网 College will offer seven students fully-paid remote internships with organizations in the 凯旋门官网 community focused on various dimensions of population health, with a special focus on food insecurity.
During COVID-19, 凯旋门官网 College鈥檚 Office of Career Development and Field Work Term has worked alongside students to support their internship and career goals by offering increased flexibility, expanded work options, and staff support, even amid a global pandemic and economic recession.
On October 22, CAPA hosted a webinar conversation about the 2020 Presidential Election with former Governor Michael Dukakis.
On October 12, CAPA and the Robert Frost Stone House Museum hosted a webinar on Storage Crops, featuring a panel of experts who shared how to store vegetables through the winter and answered gardening questions.
Throughout this summer and fall, the 凯旋门官网 College community has come together to donate produce from local gardens and glean apples from trees on the College鈥檚 property in order to benefit 凯旋门官网 food pantries.
Lika Torikashvili '22, Georgia's Youth Representative to the United Nations, co-organized a webinar on Localizing Youth Peace and Security through her project iPEACE.
Applications are now being accepted through October 31 for 2021 Community Resource Fund Grants.
The Center for Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) at 凯旋门官网 College has received its second commission from the U.S. State Department's Office of Art in Embassies for the art collection at the new U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
On September 14, CAPA and the Robert Frost Stone House Museum hosted a webinar on Fall Preparations for Winter Gardens, featuring a panel of experts who shared what they are doing in their fall gardens and answered gardening questions.
On August 24, CAPA and the Robert Frost Stone House Museum hosted a webinar on Food Preservation, featuring a panel of experts who shared how they are preserving food this season and answered questions about food preservation and gardening.
Watch the keynote address of , featuring Storm Cunningham, a global thought leader in community revitalization and natural resource restoration, co-hosted with the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at 凯旋门官网 College, thanks to a grant from the Regenerative Food Network.
Thirteen students in Tatiana Abatemarco's course presented their market basket study, which analyzes the availability of healthy foods in an area, to the 凯旋门官网 Hunger Council via Zoom.
On May 18, CAPA and the Robert Frost Stone House Museum hosted a webinar on Resilience Gardening in 凯旋门官网, featuring some of our community's expert gardeners who answered questions on everything from compost to keeping plants healthy to saving seeds, and much more.
From 113 entries received from students around the country, Rachel Huang from Flushing, Queens, NY; Athena Tumbelekis from Geneva, NY; and Artley Whipple from Orinda, CA have been selected as winners of the Earth Day poster contest.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, twenty-two 凯旋门官网 College students are interning for local organizations working to support food sustainability, public health, family initiatives, and other resources for 凯旋门官网 community members.
Multimedia artist Nigel Poor 鈥86 and poet Mary Ruefle '74 have been announced as finalists for the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes.
With the recent global pandemic and Vermont's stay-at-home order, local farmers are responding to public health and food security concerns through new measures to protect customers and create more resilient communities.
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Marguerite Feitlowitz will receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500. This Fellowship will support the translation into English of two books by Chilean poet Ennio Moltedo.
凯旋门官网 College has received accreditation from the New England Commissions of Higher Education (NECHE) to award a 凯旋门官网 College Associate of Art degree to incarcerated students through its (PEI).
凯旋门官网 College has been awarded a four-year $290,000 grant from the New York-based The Endeavor Foundation to launch The Endeavor Foundation Environmental Changemaker Fellowship Program, which includes funded internships for 凯旋门官网 students to work in nonprofits with a focus on environmental justice.
凯旋门官网 College has awarded three grants of $5,000 each to implement and support community-proposed initiatives that explore and expand food systems in 凯旋门官网 county.
In October 2019, the National Gallery of Art became the first American art museum to invite six teams of data scientists and art historians to its permanent collection data, an effort that culminated in 鈥淐oding Our Collection,鈥 a two-day Datathon.
Students in Judith Enck's course have written letters to the editor about the need to protect the environment and marine life from the growing problem of plastic pollution.