Courtney Smith of Gorham awarded Saint Michael's College summer research grant

2011 Mar 30

Courtney Smith, daughter of Jonathan and Cynthia Smith of Gorham, was informed this week that she will receive a Vice President for Academic Affairs Research Fellowship summer research grant from Saint Michael's College. Smith will be engaged in carrying out the proposal, "Creating interpretive signage to educate visitors to the Teaching Gardens", under the direction of Saint Michael's Professor, Dr. Valerie Bang-Jensen, education department,.

Smith, a junior education and religious studies double major, graduated from Gorham High School before coming to Saint Michael's, a liberal arts residential Catholic college located three minutes from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top 10 college towns.

Dr. Karen Talentino, Saint Michael's vice president for academic affairs, said on announcing the grant, "I enthusiastically agree with the committee in its judgment of the quality of your proposal." Funds are additionally being awarded to the student to cover research materials and for travel to present the results at an academic conference.

Learn What Matters at Saint Michael's College, The Edmundite Catholic liberal arts college, www.smcvt.edu . Saint Michael's provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns. It is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 371 Colleges, and is included in the 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Saint Michael's is one of only 280 colleges and universities nationwide, one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 100 international students. Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings.