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The new semester has begun and there are a lot of new faces on campus, including 14 new Italian students. These new additions bring the Italian student population at Sierra Nevada College to 34.

The first batch of Italian students arrived in the fall on scholarships after their university in L’Aquila, Italy, was destroyed in a 6.3 magnitude earthquake last April. SNC Vice President for Development Madylon Meiling worked closely with the National Italian American Foundation, which led a campaign to relocate Italian students, and spearheaded the fundraising of scholarships for the students.

Incline Village, NV – Sierra Nevada College President Robert Maxson announced that the Northern Nevada International Center (NNIC) and Sierra Nevada College at Lake Tahoe have been awarded a $352,000 grant by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to host 25 South African entrepreneurs over a two-year period. Sierra Nevada College’s partnership with the NNIC will provide (non-paid) internships for two sets of 12-13 young entrepreneurs (ages 25-35). The first group will arrive in Reno mid-February and we are seeking both internship providers and home hosts for the visitors. The ideal business hosts would be engaged in the following fields within the Reno-Tahoe area: IT or telecommunications, land surveying/GIS, tourism and hospitality, film production, fashion/clothes designing, carpentry, and environmental conservation. Internships will last five weeks and visitors will intern Monday through Thursday each week from February 15th through March 18th. On Fridays, the interns will be studying to receive an entrepreneurship certificate through Sierra Nevada College.

Henderson, NV  – Sierra Nevada College’s Henderson/Las Vegas campus was recently the site for two significant Teacher Education program events. On January 16th, the top three M.Ed. candidates from the college’s 2009 graduate class appeared before a community panel of educators, businesswomen, and SNC administrators to present their Action Plans, the culminating project in SNC's new M.Ed. in Advanced Teaching and Leadership program. Students are tasked with designing a pilot program that will result in positive impacts on the local educational community and that can be implemented in one year with a budget of $5000. The community panelists were Karyn Wright, Director of K-12 Development for the Danielson Group; Eloiza Martinez, Vice President and Community Development Officer for Wells Fargo; and Dr. Lynn Gillette, Provost and Executive Vice President for Sierra Nevada College. After listening to the presentations, panelists selected Joyce Scarbrough to be the recipient of the first Sierra Nevada College Community Implementation Grant, which will enable her program, entitled "enVisioning Success"—a staff development program designed to support the enVision Math program and improve student achievement in math by training teachers to use differentiated math strategies—to be launched over the next year.

Incline Village, NV  – Emiley Vollmer, owner and chief executive of Evo Media Enterprises, a new-media design, 3-D animation, Web design, video production, post-production, and TV commercial agency, will be speaking at Sierra Nevada College on Thursday, February 11th, in the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, room 139, from 7-9pm. Topics to be covered in her presentation include issues of diversity (South Africa as well as Africa as a whole), her multicultural experiences from a South African perspective, challenges that still exist, and the benefit of collaborative partnerships (such as with Sierra Nevada College) in terms of fostering greater multicultural awareness and understanding, as well as her own life story. Following her presentation, she will respond to questions posed by Dr. Lynn Gillette, SNC Provost. This event is free and open to the public.

The Northern Nevada International Center (NNIC) was awarded a grant in the amount of $352,000 by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to host 25 South African entrepreneurs over a two-year period. NNIC, which is a sponsored project of the University of Nevada, Reno, will collaborate with Sierra Nevada College (SNC) to provide internships for two sets of 12 to 13 young entrepreneurs.

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — While much of the focus of the energy efficiency movement has been on gas-guzzling SUVs, miles per gallon, oil companies and dependency on foreign oil, a recent free community workshop featured ways of cutting home energy consumption and costs.

“Buildings and the appliances within them account for 40 percent of America's energy use and a third of our global warming emissions,” said a report compiled by Scientists from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Bev Vuilleumier, from Incline Village, has been invited to compete in the Snowboard Slopestyle competition at Winter X Games 14 on Jan. 28-31 in Aspen, Colo.

Vuilleumier is a recent graduate from Sierra Nevada College with a degree in business. As a Winter X Games rookie in 2009, Vuilleumier finished the Slopestyle competition in eighth place. In 2008, she was the overall champion at Whistler's "If Ullr was a Girl" contest which involves big mountain, slopestyle, halfpipe and a talent segment. She was nominated for TransWorld's Women's Rookie of the Year in 2009.