Brewster Resident among Honorees in Core Division at Champlain College

From Champlain College:

Megan Hoins of Brewster was honored for excellence in the Core Division at Champlain College on Monday, April 25. The Core Division celebrated student achievement and outstanding performance in liberal education at the event.

Students whose work was published in the fourth edition of "Audeamus," an annual collection of student essays, were celebrated, along with student workers, faculty and administration.

Special thanks from Core Dean Betsy Beaulieu went to CCM faculty member Kim MacQueen of the Champlain College Publishing Initiative and her students, who put the book together, musicians Lois Price and Linda Rodd and program planners Rowshan Nemazee and Linda Goodrum.

Essays included Scott Barrett (The State of US Prisons: Are Our Prisons Working?); Jocelyn Bedell (Self-portrait: A Study of Self Through Portraiture); Monica Birchmore (The Gender Wage Gap Literature Review); Elizabeth Burnam (All Women Are Gay: Society Blows Science Out of Proportion); Stanley Chen (Student Loan Debt Review); Jordan Cohen (Concrete); Dominique Cornacchia (The Bodies Project: Embodiment Paper); Margaret DeCapua (This I Have Done: Consider the Pebble, Become the Pebble); Michael DePlante (The Great Firewall: When Economics Undermine Human Rights); Angela DiLoreto (Menstruation Nation); Hannah Durkee (Analysis of Ishmael); Faith Frith (Hope Makes the World Go Round); Morandah Garrett (Express YOURself Bodies Project); Lian Henderson (Human Rights and Online Surveillance); Mimi Hewett (Concepts of Myself); Alma Himmelberger (self-portrait); Megan Hoins (Neo-Dadaism: Absurdist Humor and the Millennial Generation); Nick Kinteris (Facebook and Your Right to Privacy: The Importance of User Privacy on the Web); Jessica Kirby (A Moral Obligation); Jared Knepper (self-portrait); Brittany Mazyck (The Education Connection); Molly Metayer (Medical Injustice Within America's Criminal Justice System); Jacob Mumford (The Two Daoisms: Modern Religious Daoism and the West's Love Affair With Philosophical Daoism); Mary Braden Murphy (Sex Trafficking and Prostitution); Tess O'Halloran (Transgender Inmates in US Prisons: Systemic power structures through cultural, political and economic lenses); Kaylee Pratt (Goodnight Mommy and the Austrian Heimatfilm); Amelia Schreiner (self-portrait); Sarah Steward (To Die/Grow Up Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure); Kelsey Ward (An Overview through Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and Kelsey Ward (Digital Piracy and the Music Industry).

Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vt. with additional campuses in Montreal, Quebec and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and more than 60 online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 380 Colleges: 2016 Edition. Champlain College is featured in the "Fiske Guide to Colleges" for 2016 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. Champlain was named the first in "Most Innovative School" in the North by the U.S. News and World Report's 2016 "America's Best Colleges and 14th in the overall list of "Best Regional Colleges in the North.

Further information is available through the Champlain College website.