News & Events
Steve Rinella, author of American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, serves up some meat during a wild game dinner he hosted for students in Withey Hall. Offerings included wild boar, buffalo and bear. He also gave a public lecture and visited classes during his time at GMC.
GMC Featured in Sustainability:
The Journal of Record
The October 2009 issue of Sustainability: The Journal of Record includes a major feature article on GMC’s focus on the environmental liberal arts. The journal "meets the needs of the rapidly growing community of professionals in academia, industry, policy, and government who have the responsibility and commitment to advancing one of the major imperatives of this young century." View the article. (subscription required)
Students Join International Climate Action Day
A group of GMC students braved the weather to participate in an International Day of Climate Action October 24. Over 3,000 groups in 158 countries planned events to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--and to lobby for action. The focus was on the number 350, "as in parts per million, the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere." GMC hosted a bike rally, sponsored by Club Activism, and coordinated several other activities on campus.
Voice of America Airs Interview with Wai Phyo Myint '11
In her home country of Burma, GMC student and Make a Difference Scholar Wai Phyo Myint '11 didn't have many educational opportunities, so she came to the United States to study communications and political science.
In a Voice of America interview that aired October 13, Wai discusses her experience since arriving in Vermont. She is quoted as saying that being able to have open communication with peers and instructors "is something that she appreciates and isn't able to do if she went to college back home."
“Academically, I am really satisfied being here and my classes are really nice," she said. "I am quite close to the professors and the professors are also quite helpful and conversation outside of the classroom is always lively and interesting,” she says.
New Tax Credit for Textbook Expenses
GMC students may be able to get money back for their textbooks thanks to a new tax credit available through the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package. This new government program will now reimburse students for up to 100 percent of the cost of required textbooks and other course materials. For example, if a student has out-of-pocket course material expenses or tuition and fees during 2009 or 2010 and no other financial grant aid covers those expenses, they would be able to claim the expenses as a credit. For each student the credit is limited to $2,500. Visit the campus bookstore in Withey Hall or click on textbookaid.org for more information.
