Changing the Conversation
A few years ago, a promising student confided to David Jenemann, dean of the Patrick Leahy Honors College, that she was thinking about transferring. She wanted to have big conversations with her peers, and she wasn’t sure she could find this at ̽̽.
“We were going to lose a really good student,” says Jenemann.
This prompted him and ̽̽ President Suresh...
The Virtues of Dirty Work
Mark Usher, the Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, stands in ankle-deep mud wielding a flame-thrower. He turns the blazing propane toward the ground and burns a hole through a black sheet of plastic that stretches across a pasture on his farm in Shoreham, Vt. Then he stomps on the hole to smother the smoke and picks up a square-ended spade.
The Class That Changed My Life
There are moments in everyone’s life that have the potential to change everything. For the ̽̽ College of Arts and Sciences alums (and one soon-to-be alum) below, one of those shining moments came while they were at ̽̽. They signed up for a course because it was suggested, required, or simply sounded interesting, and bam!
Beyond Opioids
It seems like an old story now. Painkillers prescribed by a well-meaning doctor that lead to addiction and a deadly downward spiral. In the early days of the nation’s opioid epidemic, it seemed everyone knew someone who lost someone to a bottle of little white pills.
Preserving a Legacy
Earlier this year, several semi-trucks rolled up to ̽̽’s Library Research Annex in Williston and disgorged more than 3,000 white cartons containing nearly 50 years of American history—the Leahy Archive.