Johnson State College in the News
Below you can read summaries of recent news stories related to JSC. Links to the stories are provided when available.
5.16.10 "Johnson State College Graduates" The Free Press lists the names of graduates from JSC.
5.15.10 "Against All Odds, New Law Advances Abenaki Recognition" JSC Professor Fred Wiseman and fellow Abenaki discuss the signing of a state bill which sets the criteria for state recognition of the tribe.
4.28.10 "Break Away at JSC" The college's alternative break service program is featured on this week's "Stuck in Vermont" video series.
4.27.10 "Vermont Wildlife Advocate Honored" JSC Alumni & Development Director Sally Laughlin is awarded the first Zetterstrom Environmental Award.
4.7.10 "Nerve Center for Two Leagues in Unlikely Rural Vermont Setting" The JSC men's golf program gets mentioned as part of the growing national athletics conference presence in Vermont.
3.14.10 "Colleges Work to Keep the Droputs In" The Free Press looks at local efforts to increase the number of college graduates.
2.5.10 "Lawmakers Weigh Human Trafficking Bill" JSC senior Courtney Gabaree testifies before VT lawmakers in favor of an anti-human-trafficking bill.
1.25.10 "JSC Offers Intro to Lamoille Archaeology" The News & Citizen covers Corbett Torrence's local archaeology class.
11.27.09 "VT Edition: PoJazz" VPR's Steve Zind talks with JSC professor and PoJazzer Tony Whedon about this ongoing collaboration of poets and musicians.
11.16.09 "JSC Changes Academic Focus" WCAX highlights the Environmental & Health Sciences Department's department-wide watershed research project.
11.11.09 "Minority Rule" JSC alumna
Jeanine Bunzigiye is one of the emerging leaders discussed.
10.21.09 "Philharmonic Opens Grandly With Opera" The JSC Chorus performs with the Vermont Philharmonic at the season opener to great reviews.
10.15.09 "College Newspapers and Student Journalism" Vermont Edition host Jane Lindholm talks to Basement Medicine editor Hilary Hayward and other VT student newspaper editors.
10.9.09 "VT Philharmonic Begins With Bel Canto" JSC students will perform with the Vermont Philharmonic at upcoming performances in Barre and St. Johnsbury.
10.7.09 "Clark Derbes Lines Up Unique Public Art Projects" Artist Clark Derbes' recent collaboration with JSC art students is highlighted in Seven Days.
9.23.09 "My Turn: Perspective Needed in Health Debate" JSC student Aran Halvorsen offers his take on the national health care debate.
8.25.09 JSC alum Rich Westman moves from the Legislature to being State Tax Commissioner, after 25 years of representing Cambridge in state government.
8.14.09 "Ag Secretary Vilsack Appoints Jim Monahan Deputy Administrator of Commodity Operations" JSC Alumnus Jim Monahan Appointed to US Department of Agriculture position
7.6.09 "Rock Art Brews Success in Morrisville" Alums Matt and Renee Nadeau discuss the genesis and success of their Rock Art brewery.
7.2.09 "Nought 101: Report Gives Boost to Online Education" JSC President Barbara Murphy discusses the role of online education in the External Degree Program in relation to a new study about the effectiveness of online learning.
7.2.09 "Vermont's Contribution" JSC Professor Bill Doyle considers Vermont's role in the U.S. fight for independence from
Britain.
6.29.09 "Stories From the Lake: Appreciation" Professor Fred Wiseman adds his insight into the Abenaki view of the lake at the time of Champlain.
6.22.09 "Stories From The Lake: Commerce" Professor Fred Wiseman adds his expertise to a conversation about commerce around Lake Champlain and the role of the Abenakis in commercial exchange.
6.18.09 "Local Food Shelves Desperate" JSC Experiential Learning Director Ellen Hill offers some insight into shortages at Vermont food shelves since the onset of the recession.
6.18.09 "Students Unearth History in Cambridge" More on JSC's summer archaeology class and the discoveries students are making at the dig site.
6.17.09 "Students Dig Up the Past"Students in a JSC summer archaeology class are digging for and discovering Native American artifacts in a field in Cambridge, VT and learning how they lived.
6.8.09 "Professor Studies Baby Laughter" JSC Professor Gina Mireault's "Laughing Babies" research project, studying the development of humor in infants, was featured on VPR.
6.1.09 "Stories from the Lake" JSC Professor Fred Wiseman discusses Samuel de Champlain's first views of Lake Champlain and a fateful battle with natives in the area.
5.31.09 "Previously Unknown Letter Shows Hero's Doubts" JSC Professor Emeritus of English and Humanities, John Duffy, discusses a newly discovered letter written by Ethan Allen.
4.6.09 "BBA to Rename Award After Tim Halvorson" The Burlington Business Association's is renaming an award for JSC alumnus Tim Halvorson. (The Free Press link has expired, but you can read more about this award on our alumni Web site.)
3.26.09 "Johnson State Students Honored for Public Service" JSC students Courtney Yasameen Gabaree and James Mabior received awards from Vermont Campus Compact for outstanding public service.
3.26.09 "Interview: Liselotte Ivry" Vermont Public Radio interviews Liselotte Ivry, Holocaust survivor and speaker on the issue of genocide. Ivry gave the 25th Annual Ellsworth Lecture at JSC on March 26, 2009.
3.2.09 "For 41st Year, Doyle Will Issue His Town Meeting Survey" Vermont Public Radio talks with State Senator and JSC Professor Bill Doyle about the 41st year of Doyle's Town Meeting survey, which collects data about Vermonters' opinions on a variety of issues.
3.1.09 "Laughter, Down to a Science" JSC Behavorial Sciences Professor Gina Mireault and several students are studying the development of humor in infants. 15 mother-baby pairs are participating in this study, which tracks the babies as they develop from about 3 months on.
2.14.09 "Indigenous Expressions at ECHO" A new exhibit at the ECHO Center in Burlington highlights the interactions that native peoples had with the land around the Champlain valley in the thousands of years before Champlain's explorations of the area. JSC professor and Abenaki scholar Frederick Wiseman supplied many of the artifacts used in the collaborative exhibit.
2.13.09 "Memories of Montpelier" JSC professor Bill Doyle's history documentary, "Memories of Montpelier" will premiere at Montpelier's Kellogg-Hubbard library on Wednesday, February 18 at 7 p.m. The half-hour film shares the stories of 12 Montpelier residents as they remember their childhoods in the first half of the 20th century.
2.10.09 "Philharmonic, Soloists Hit New High" The weekend "Tragedy & Triumph" performance by the Vermont Philharmonic (JSC's Dibden Center for the Arts on Saturday, February 7 and at the Barre Opera House on February 8), featuring soprano soloist and JSC professor Lisa Jablow (and JSC community members JoAnne Edwards and Paul Silver) is positively reviewed in the Times-Argus today. Jablow's contribution is singled out: "With a very pliant line, she plumbed the depths of this work, with a quiet intensity or soaring above the full orchestra. Jablow's voice was brilliant in sound, but it was the repressed, seething passion that made this music live. "
2.9.09 "Between the Lines" "Shame and Glory," the newest issue of Green Mountains Review, JSC's nationally renowned literary magazine, is reviewed. This all-fiction issue is edited by Leslie Daniels.
1.29.09 "Campuses Anticipate Construction Aid" Vermont public higher education institutions are drawing up priority lists for campus modernization projects in anticipation of the passage of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Among the projects being considered at JSC is the renovation of Bentley Hall.
1.11.09 "Applications up at UVM, State Colleges" The national economic downturn has had the effect of increasing the number of Vermonters applying to state schools. Applications at JSC are up 11 percent this year.
1.6.09 "Secrets to Scouting" The Times-Argus talks with Assistant Athletics Director Mike Osborne about scouting new basketball players for JSC.
12.24.08 "Health Watch: Laughing Babies" WCAX talks to JSC student Merlin Poutre and Professor Gina Mireault about Mireault's current research project studying the development of humor in infants.
12.08 JSC alumna Rebecca McGregor, a dance teacher at Lyndon Institute, is featured in the December 2008 issue of Dance Teacher magazine. Download the a pdf of the article here.