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From Design+Build Collaborative, a community LIFT in Barre Second tiny house sited in December, providing home for holiday season Norwich University’s students and faculty used their civic-mindedness and creativity to leave a lasting holiday gift in Barre, Vermont before the winter break. The stylish, ecologically efficient tiny home they built, LIFT 2.0, stands as an example of affordable housing’s future and marks a step toward resolving local homelessness. LIFT 2.0 was sited Dec. 17 in a “Home for the Holidays” ceremony attended by students and faculty from Norwich’s Schoo...

Enthusiasm ahead of arrivals Incoming students contemplate academic, social possibilities as phased-in on-campus arrivals begin When Leah Cole was growing up in Barre, Vermont, she revered her Norwich-graduate grandmother, who earned a nursing degree, became a registered nurse and Washington County Mental Health Services home care provider serving special-needs children. “I used to play nurse with her,” Cole said of her grandmother. “She made up fake diseases and we got to diagnose them.” (One was Conkis of the Bonkis, which presented when patients’ brains were too big for th...

Using their outside voices In ‘Learning Spaces’ contest, international group designs outdoor learning and play spaces The “think globally, act locally” catchphrase encourages problem solvers to consider global health and local communities as they work. For “Learning Spaces,” an outdoor classroom design competition, Norwich University thought and looked globally — inviting inventive high schoolers from around the world to submit ideas for outdoor spaces for learning and play. Fifty-seven people from 10 countries on four continents registered for the contest, which ran Nov....

Tiny House, Big Impact: New Development Provides Permanent Home for Vt. Man Jack Thurston A pilot program in central Vermont is looking at whether tiny homes can have a big impact on access to safe, permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness or those at risk. "For people who haven't had their own place permanently, to be able to live in such amazing units — it's quite incredible," said Penny Martin of Washington County Mental Health Services, referring to a new tiny home in Barre that a man is moving into Friday. The 300-square-foot efficient home, next to anothe...

Virtual pinning ceremony for nursing students, Admissions Office information session among events Connection sessions for students past and future, a pinning for Accelerated Bachelor of Science nursing students and the arrival of the Norwich Record alumni magazine’s WInter 2021 issue stud the calendar for the last full week of the Norwich University’s fall semester. First, for the future. From 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, the Admissions Office will hold an Introduction to Norwich webinar. Staff will answer questions about academics, scholarships, financial aid and student life, both for members o...