Colby-Sawyer College raised more than $780,000 during its sixth annual Day of Giving on Thursday, far surpassing the event’s previous fundraising record set in 2020. The $780,152 raised over the course of the 24-hour event more than doubles the $371,746 raised…

A light snow falls as the Mount Sunapee parking lot begins to fill with cars plastered with Colby-Sawyer parking passes, the gray clouds contrasting with the bright white snow on the slopes. Inside the lodge, silver and blue snowflake streamers hang from the…

Peter White has been named Colby-Sawyer College’s next dean of the School of Nursing & Health Sciences. White, who has been serving as the school’s interim dean since January, joined the Colby-Sawyer biology faculty in 2001. He holds a BS from…

Colby-Sawyer College has announced the hiring of Jeanette McKillop as its next director of athletics. McKillop, who will begin her tenure June 1, comes to Colby-Sawyer from nearby Rindge, New Hampshire, where she spent the last five years serving as the…

Nishchal Banskota ’15 may have exchanged New London for the bright lights of New York City, but he’s still making an impact at Colby-Sawyer College. Tea produced by Banskota’s company, the Nepal Tea Collective, featured in the fall 2023 issue of Colby-Sawyer Magazine…

For the nearly three years since she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in environmental science, Lucy Hayward ’21 has been working as an outdoor educator at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School (HIOBS), a nonprofit organization based in Camden, Maine that specializes in…

Since graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Dan Munger ’21 has been working as an accounting clerk at North Coast Seafoods in Boston, under an hour from his hometown of Norton, Massachusetts. It’s a position, he said, that requires a lot…

As a clinical research coordinator II (CRC II) in the cancer center of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Mikaela Whaley ’22 works exclusively with patients who have terminal illnesses. The relationships she builds with those patients and their families is what she loves most…

The students in Community-Based Research, a 300-level environmental science course spanning two semesters, are collaborating with the Pleasant Lake Protective Association and the town of New London on a watershed analysis project that focuses on Pleasant Lake. “So far, the class has…

Every teacher hopes that their work will make a positive impact in the world, but most are not so lucky as to witness their impact firsthand. Of course, if you were to ask Dave Zamansky, Colby-Sawyer’s director of residential education, he would tell…

Avery Brennan ’21 graduated from Colby-Sawyer’s undergraduate nursing program in May 2021. Two weeks later, the Portland, Maine, native passed the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) and a week after that, she started working as a nurse at an inpatient psychiatric hospital in…

Professor Randy Hanson has been named Colby-Sawyer College’s next dean of the School of Business & Social Sciences. He will begin a five-year appointment as dean in January 2024. Hanson, who teaches in the history and political studies program and holds…

At the final gathering of faculty and staff for the academic year on Thursday, May 11, Master Carpenter Norm Green was awarded the Judith Pond Condict ’62 Award for Excellence in Service. The award is presented annually to an outstanding staff member who…

When Chelsea Perry ’21, ’22 MBA graduated with a Bachelor of Science in business, the college’s 4+1 Master of Business Administration program seemed a logical next step. The program, which is available to those who have completed a bachelor’s degree at Colby-Sawyer and…

Creative and professional writing Assistant Professor Brandon Arvesen believes that being a bad student helped him become a good teacher. “I was a really bad college student for my first year,” said Arvesen, who joined the Colby-Sawyer College faculty in 2022 after teaching…

A group of six Colby-Sawyer students were selected to spend their fall break in Miami for the first Wesson Weekend trip since the COVID-19 pandemic. The trip was led by School of Business & Social Sciences Assistant Professor Christina Perez and School of…

Colby-Sawyer College has been selected as a host site for the Campus Climate Action Corps (CCAC) project. Through this program, four Americorps members, called “Climate Action Energizers,” devote 300 hours to community engagement efforts and the design of community-based solutions to environmental issues…

Smriti Sharma Sapkota ’22 thrives in a fast-paced environment. Luckily for the Jhapa, Nepal, native, her position as an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at The Medical Center of Aurora in Aurora, Colorado, gives her plenty of opportunity to thrive. …

As an exercise science major, Malik Newcomb ’22 presented his research at regional conferences sponsored by New Hampshire INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence), a program funded by the National Institutes of Health to promote biomedical research in the state. As a…

Six new named inductees to the Colby-Sawyer Legends Society and two anonymous donors were honored at a ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 11. The Legends Society recognizes the exceptional philanthropy of those who have made $1 million or more in lifetime gifts to the…

Jacqueline Andrews ’22 has a passion for nursing and learning, so she is diving headlong into both, working on an inpatient oncology unit in Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston and pursuing her master’s degree in Colby-Sawyer’s Master of Science in Nursing program…

Colby-Sawyer’s studio art program recently hosted a group of 10 students and two instructors from the Tokyo University of the Arts (TUA). At Colby-Sawyer, they collaborated with six students and faculty members. During their visit, the group designed and…