Why Get A Degree in Outdoor Education?
You love the outdoors and want to spend as much time outside as possible. You enjoy the continual and ever-changing challenges that climate and geography can bring every day. You…
View moreExploring Natural Places in Vermont by Dan Borin
So often, we don’t take advantage of exploring where we are. Sometimes, we forget to explore or live in the place where we hang our hat and lay our heads….
View moreClimate Change is Real: Join the Fight for Climate Justice
Sterling College is proud of its half-century of pursuing learning about and engaging with the natural world.Β In 2019, it placed itself among the first colleges to make a commitment…
View moreShaping Our Thoughts on Pottery: A Photo Journal
Students reflect and highlight the creative process of creating pottery at Muddy Creek Pottery in Wolcott, Vermont. βThere isnβt really a difference in my mind from one cup to another…
View moreThe Meaning of Things
With the world expecting the holiday shopping season to set new precedents, weβd like to distract or disrupt those popular consumptive tendencies and offer a look at the Sterling College…
View morePost-Election & Post-Pandemic What is next for Higher Education?
Higher education in the United States is reeling from both the effects of a prolonged period of erosion in public confidence in the contribution colleges and universities make to the…
View moreLife Lessons in Rock Climbing by Grace Jessiman
I leaned back carefully onto the thin, spider-strong loop of webbing that was keeping me anchored into the rock. The granite wall fell away for 200 feet below me, the…
View moreWhy Study the Environmental Humanities
What is the human experience, and how does our environment shape it? How do we, as humans, shape our environment? Students of the Environmental Humanities work to answer these essential…
View moreBittersweet, A Student Retrospective on the Food: Community Provisioning and Action Pod
As Block One draws to its inevitable conclusion, I find myself thinking back on the experience in a fond yet bittersweet way. It seems so odd to think that only…
View moreColors of Nature, The Art of Naturally Dyed Materials
Less than two decades ago, the idea of a food-traceable agriculture movement was niche. Today, farm-to-table has changed the way we, as a society, relate to our food. Adjunct Faculty…
View moreDawnland Garden & Black River Seed Library
In partnership with the non-profit organization Abenaki Helping Abenaki and the Seeds of Renewal Project, the Rian Fried Center established in 2018 a heritage garden on the Sterling College campus….
View moreWhat Can You Do with an Ecology Degree?
Ecology is a branch of biology which involves the study of organisms and their interaction with the environment.Β That βorganismβ could be a tiny plant or a large mammal; that…
View moreAlumni Spotlight: Brittany Benedetti ’12
Education: Outdoor Education (Sterling College), Elementary Education M.A.T. (Rhode Island College) and Certificate in Herbal Foundations (Farmacy Herbs, Providence, RI) Current hometown: Hopkinton, Rhode Island Employment: Title I Services for…
View more5 Reasons Why You Should Go to College
Thinking about heading off to college can be an exciting and scary time. The options can be overwhelming and it can be hard to settle on what path feels right…
View moreDisability and Dedication by Jay D’Agostino
When I first found and researched Sterling College, I understood the demographics well enough – chances were, there wouldnβt be any other students needing to walk around with a cane,…
View moreAlumni Spotlight: Kayla Scheimreif ’13
Sterling degree: BA in Natural History from Sterling and a MS in Natural Resources from Cornell University Current hometown: Utqiagvik, Alaska Employment: Wildlife Biologist at North Slope Borough Department of…
View moreHeritage Livestock & Rotational Grazing Systems
In addition to efforts focused on crop varieties, the Rian Fried Center is also deepening our commitment to heritage livestock breeds. This includes a transition toward on-farm breeding of dual-purpose…
View moreAlumni Spotlight: Molly Cyr ’12
Name: Molly Cyr ’12 Sterling degree: Outdoor Education & Leadership Current hometown: Orr’s Island, Maine Employment: Farm Camp Manager – Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment Other activities/volunteer…
View moreAlumni Spotlight: Erez Brandvain ’13
Name: Erez Brandvain ’13 Sterling degree: Sustainable Agriculture Current hometown: Vandalia, Michigan Employment: Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program Can you tell us about your current work? I work for the…
View moreAlumni Spotlight: Christina Wild ’05
Name: Christina Wild ’05 Sterling degree: I transferred from Warren Wilson College where I was an Environmental Studies major. I graduated from Sterling with a Sustainable Agriculture degree and later…
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