Julia Lanctot ’21 An Internship with a Side of Yogurt
As a human resources intern, business administration major Julia Lanctot ’21 never expected to see the inside of a yogurt factory. But Stonyfield Organic in Londonderry, N.H., stresses firsthand experience with the production process. Employees from all departments of the organic yogurt company…
Carly Pusateri '19The First Dual-Degree Graduate from Colby-Sawyer, Vermont Law
Carly Pusateri ’19, a history and political studies graduate from West Boylston, Mass., earned the distinction of being the first Colby-Sawyer student to complete the college’s dual bachelor’s and law degree program, earning a B.A. in history and political studies from Colby-Sawyer and…
Steve Hash '07How Colby-Sawyer Inspired his Passion for the Environment
As soon as Steve Hash got word he’d been tasked with presenting his company’s work at a conference in Western Massachusetts, the Littleton, Colo., resident was sure of at least one stop he’d have to make while in New England. Hash, a graduate…
The Pulse on Nursing Scholar-Athletes
At first glance, athletics and nursing may seem to have little in common. However, faculty and students will say many of the skills developed through athletics are valuable attributes for a successful nursing career. The development of leadership skills, self-discipline, attention to detail…
Inspired to Help OthersRobin Baldwin ’21
As a high school freshman in southern New Hampshire, Robin Baldwin could sense that one of her classmates wasn’t getting the support he needed in school. The boy, who had been diagnosed with selective mutism, was often singled out by staff…
Cameron Bolling ’20 Creative Writing & Literature Major Self Publishes Novel
For a long time, Cameron Bolling ’20 was divided between traditional book publishing — sending the manuscript of his novel off to publishing houses in hopes of it being accepted — or self-publishing — controlling his own formatting and editing, pricing and marketing…
Bronsen Stevens ’20A Summer Internship Turns to a Post-Grad Career
What would it feel like to enter your senior year of college with a job already lined up after graduation? Just ask business administration major Bronsen Stevens ’20. “It feels really great,” Stevens said. “It’s the affirmation that my investment in college was…
A Memorable Mountain Day
It’s today, it has to be today. The ketchup dispenser is missing from the dining hall, campus tours have all been canceled, and it can’t be a Tuesday or Thursday because of nursing clinicals. Besides, they can’t wait until next week — it’s…
Boosting Our Global Immunity through Community Resilience
This Op-Ed recently appeared on the pages of the Concord Monitor.Our healthcare system in this country is not well. At the very least it is not affordable, but at most it seems more suited to diagnosing and treating sicknesses than to recognizing and…
Katie Bernashe '20A Not So Common Finnish Start to Summer
Katie Bernashe '20 began her summer the way she enjoyed her junior year with the swim team, surrounded by water. A month-long, early summer journey took Bernashe 4,000 miles away to Finland, where she would research, study and document the traits, behaviors, and…
A Force of NatureRaptor Research on Cape May
There comes a time when it’s time to go. And so, following their instincts, 50,000 raptors (birds of prey that include eagles, falcons, hawks, ospreys and harriers), having summered in Canada and New England, follow a flight path down the East Coast. They…
Winds of ChangeRemembering Colby-Sawyer’s First Coed Class
Colby-Sawyer’s Class of 1994 arrived on campus to become the college’s first official coed class. Since then, these 85 women and 35 men have scattered to 26 states (and Hong Kong). As their 25th reunion approaches, we celebrate Colby-Sawyer’s quarter century of graduating…
A Conversation with Meaza Petros ’19
This spring, Meaza Petros ’19 from Boston, Mass., presented at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Portland, Ore. Petros, who designed her own Colby-Sawyer major focused on global affairs, shared the stage with Associate Professor of Humanities and poet Ewa…
Instant ConnectionPartnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Gives Nursing Students Access and Expertise
Every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:45 a.m., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Lebanon, N.H., hospital, is awash in a sea of blue scrubs as more than 100 Colby-Sawyer nursing students arrive and disperse to their assigned patient care units. They never know quite…
Don’t Get Nervous, Get ReadyAlumni Share Career Advice
Our alumni have tucked a wealth of wisdom into the stories written about them over the years. With Commencement on May 11 approaching faster than can be believed, we mined some nuggets of advice from our archives that may apply to anyone, but…
First Year Symposium CourseAnimals in Culture and Nature
“The 19th century,” writes English art critic John Berger in Why Look at Animals, “saw the beginning of a process … by which every tradition which has previously mediated between man and nature was broken.” Berger goes on to explain that before urbanization…