Rising to the Challenge
Professor Mark Green steps into key role as hydroponic enterprise director for the Institute for Local Food Systems Innovation.
Training the Next Generation of New England Food Entrepreneurs
The College will break ground for the one-third-acre hydroponic greenhouse of the Institute for Local Food Systems Innovation, and, soon thereafter, launch its first competency-based courses and certificate programs in hydroponic culture.
Transforming Campus Culture
As Dr. Jeanne Gulnick finishes seventeen years of service to 色虎视频, she leaves the College to begin her next career鈥揳s a nurse. Photo: Kaitlynn Hutchins '20. Dr. Gulnick's legacy of sustainability by Kimberly Post As a chemist, marine scientist, and environmental educator, Dr. Jeanne Gulnick has championed sustainability at Saint Joseph鈥檚 [...]
Business Planning with Purpose
Hayley Winslow 鈥�18 brings business acumen to her new professional role for the College By Emma Deans Through Hayley Winslow鈥檚 role as business services manager for Saint Joseph鈥檚 College鈥檚 Mission-Aligned Businesses, she tells 鈥渢he story of the business.鈥� Photo: Emma Deans. With the warm sun beating down, Hayley Winslow 鈥�18 macheted a [...]
Steering A New Course
Anthony McGuire, PhD, director of the Saint Joseph鈥檚 College nursing program, takes the Center for Nursing Innovation in an exciting new direction By Emma Deans In the summer of 2016,聽Dr. Anthony McGuireset off on a cross-country road trip adventure which ended, as all great journeys do, with a new life chapter. Starting in California, he [...]
Sea Change in Science
Department Receives National Science Foundation Grant By Patricia Erikson Call them the SWAT team for the Sisters of Mercy鈥檚 Critical Concern for Earth. Over the past decade, science education at Saint Joseph鈥檚 College has undergone a sea change. Formerly split into the two departments of Biology and Natural Sciences and occupying outdated labs, more than [...]
Mind, Body, Soul
Embracing a holistic approach to health & wellness By Emma Deans Outside the classroom window, blustery weather tugs the yellow and orange leaves from the maple trees. While the harvest season and holidays like Thanksgiving typically prompt reflection on the hardships that many people face, Dr. Karen Croteau is teaching students how to think about [...]
Saint Joseph鈥檚 College Earns Sustainable Commuting Award for Way 2 GO MAINE Challenge
There鈥檚 a popular Maine saying that goes, 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 get there from here鈥� (and when pronounced properly in a full Maine accent, of course, sounds like, "Ya can't get they-ah from hey-ah." While it鈥檚 true that rural areas of Maine can鈥檛 offer the same public transit options like the buses or subways found in large [...]
Janice M. Rey, Ed.D. Lauded Statewide with Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence
Year after year, teachers empower their students to learn, to grow, and to reach for success. When that teacher is Janice M. Rey, Ed.D., who, for the past 13 years has taught Saint Joseph鈥檚 College鈥檚聽education students how to become elementary school teachers, the impact one teacher can make becomes enormous. Dr. Rey teaches the teachers. [...]
President James Dlugos Appointed to D3 Presidents Advisory Group
Saint Joseph鈥檚 College of Maine President James Dlugos has been named to the NCAA Division III Chancellors/Presidents Advisory Group, as was announced earlier at the NCAA Convention. Dlugos, who has served as chair of the GNAC Presidents鈥� Council since the 2015-16 academic year, will serve on the Presidents Advisory Group through January 2019 and will be eligible for reappointment at that time.