Lauren Elizabeth Gillick of Stonington Earned a Bachelor's Degree from Saint Michael's College in December

2012 Jan 4

Lauren Elizabeth Gillick, daughter of Maureen and William Gillick of Stonington earned a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude in Language and Linguistics in December 2011 from Saint Michael's College, a liberal arts residential Catholic college located in Burlington Vermont. She was honored at a celebratory Mass held in December on the college campus in the Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel.

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 10 college towns. Identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 376 Colleges, and included in the 2012 Fiske Guide to Colleges, Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate 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 2012 U.S. News & World Report rankings.