Class of 2017: Related Content
William Neale '17 is among the first Peace Corps volunteers to return to overseas service since the agency’s unprecedented global evacuation in March 2020.
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College celebrated the achievements and the future promise of the Class of 2017 at Commencement this year, with an inspiring and rousing sendoff by Cornell William Brooks, a leading civil rights activist and former head of the NAACP.
In a partnership with the Vermont Arts Exchange (VAE), In Short, the Minor opens at the North ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Train Depot and runs through the weekend.
Co-organized by faculty member Jon Isherwood and ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Museum curator Jamie Franklin, 3D Digital: Here and Now is a collaboration between ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College and the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Museum that highlights artists, designers, and manufacturers whose work exploits the potential of new technologies to push material practice. The exhibition runs through June 15.
Students make news for their FWT jobs at cultural institutions: Carling Berkhout ’19 in The Manchester Journal about the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Sarah Jack ’17 in the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Banner about Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, NY, and Sam Wood ’19 in the Cape Cod Times about the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre.
Training Wheels, a Vermont Arts Exchange exhibition of print work by ten Advanced Printmaking students from ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College, will open at the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Train Depot. The show will kick off with a reception on Wednesday, December 2 at 7:30 pm and runs through February 29, by appointment.
On October 2015, students in a course taught by faculty member Benjamin Anastas launched a blog tracing ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø’s outsized impact on the world of literature and asking what accounts for it. features author interviews, short pieces of journalism and reviews, and coverage of literary events on campus.
The ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College team won the Best Student Team at the Vermont Hackathon Hack the Climate, run by HackVT. Rohail Altaf '17, Asad Malik '19, and Sarah Shames '17 created an app called Grow, which allows people within two miles to create a community cyber food market.
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø was well represented in Vermont's Japanese Speech Contest, with students Thomas Melvin ’15 and Hoa Nguyen ’16 winning first place in the intermediate division, and Ella Peake ’17 and Carolina Roque ’17 taking second in the introductory division.