NEWS FROM THE HILL

LAX CHAMPS!

The men’s lacrosse team won their third Great Northeastern Athletic Conference championship title after making their fourth consecutive title-game appearance. The Cadets defeated La Salle at Sabine Field to cap a perfect conference season. Competing in the NCAA Division III playoffs, the team won their first-round game, a program first, against Maine Maritime before losing to top-ranked Tufts.

FUN FACT

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U.S. Navy veteran Shanti Sethi ’93, the first Indian-American to command a major combat ship, has been appointed as the executive secretary and defense advisor in U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s office.

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> 1. DC Policy Week

NU students explored the Russia–Ukraine conflict and complex national security and public policy issues while visiting federal agencies during the 2022 Washington, D.C., Policy Week tour. Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Jayson A. Altieri ’89, Mary Bati, M’10 of the U.S. State Department, and numerous other NU alumni in the D.C. area helped coordinate the experiential learning immersion.

> 2. All-American

Kyle Merritt ’24 from Hope Valley, R.I., became Norwich University’s first wrestling All-American in 23 years. Merritt finished seventh among 149-pound weight class competitors in the NCAA Division III national finals in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this spring. The rising junior is majoring in criminal justice and minoring in computer crime and forensics and is a member of the Corps of Cadets.

> 3. NYC Ruck Race

Lugging 30- and 35-pound packs through the Big Apple, three teams of NU ROTC cadets dominated the podium at the GORUCK rucksack race in April. NUCC teams took first place in the 50-mile event and first and second place in the 26-mile event. Norwich alumnus and 14-year U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Christopher Petrillo M’17 was an event host.

> 4. Resilient Vermont

Led by the Center for Global Resilience and Security,

NU hosted a conference on climate change resilience, addressing social, environmental, economic, and physical strategies for helping Vermont communities reduce impacts on people, places, and property and recover faster after disasters.

> 5. Transit Shelter

In May, a bus shelter kiosk designed and built by students in the School of Architecture + Art and David Crawford School of Engineering was installed on Depot Square in Northfield. The 16-square-foot steel, fabric-cast concrete, and wood kiosk-style shelter took three years and six semesters to complete, its progress several times interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

ALL THAT JAZZ

The Pegasus Players staged a three-night run of Chicago in March. The musical was the largest production to date under the guidance of advisor Jeffry Casey, PhD, an associate professor of theater, who described the show as “a cookie full of arsenic.”

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