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Classroom Meets Community
Apr 29, 2008 |
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Don’t expect to find psychology professor Lynne Bond at the podium, lecturing for 50 minutes about the psychology of women, or about how people develop concepts of knowledge and truth. In fact, she probably won’t even be at the front of the classroom; more likely her class will be gathered together in a circle, and Bond will be among the students, leaning forward, giving them her full attention. |
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Plug, Unplug, Drive
Apr 30, 2008 |
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Richard Watts pulls a plug out of a weatherproof socket. He rolls up the green extension cord. Then he yanks the other end out of a socket in the bumper of a car and tosses the cord in the trunk. “It’s all charged,” he says. “Ready to go?” |
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viewPOINT: High School Dropout Rates
Apr 30, 2008 |
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Recent statistics show graduation rates in American high schools dipping to 70 percent. In this edition of viewPOINT, UVM faculty help explain why this rate is so low; how they affect individuals, families and society; and what can be done about it. |
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Catamounts Green Up Project Set for May 3
Apr 29, 2008 |
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Catamounts Care Community Service Project, an annual event that brings the UVM community together to clean up neighborhoods, roadways, waterways, and parks as part of Green Up Day Vermont, will take place on Saturday, May 3. |
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UVM, Community Partners Recognized for Collaborations
Apr 30, 2008 |
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The Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning held its CUPS Annual Recognition Reception on April 29 to recognize faculty, students and community partners who excelled in creating community-based learning opportunities that both enhance student learning and meet real community needs. |
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Transportation Center Awarded $1 Million for Workforce Development Project
Apr 30, 2008 |
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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that the University of Vermont's Transportation Research Center (TRC) has been awarded $979,829 as part of a $1.01 million workforce development project to help develop innovative programs to attract and retain skilled workers in the transportation sector of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. |
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University to Celebrate 204th Commencement May 18
Apr 30, 2008 |
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The University of Vermont will celebrate its 204th commencement on Sunday, May 18 at 9 a.m. on the University Green. In the case of severe weather, the ceremony will be held in the Multipurpose Facility in the Athletic Complex. Tickets are not required. |
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Providing Culturally Competent Care
Apr 23, 2008 |
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Meredith Holmberg, a senior nursing student from Charlotte, Vt. learned this year that she and her fellow nursing students have more commonalities with Bangladeshi people than differences. It wasn't a text book, novel or a film that taught her this, but a January trip with associate professor Hendrika Maltby's Community Public Health Nursing service-learning course to the southern Asian nation. |
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Just Coffee?
Apr 23, 2008 |
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If you bought a cup of coffee at Starbucks between 1999 and 2004, did you notice any wild drops in the price of your Venti latte?
Four dollars one week, two dollars the next? Not Likely. Yet, in that same period, coffee prices on the international commodity
markets plummeted, throwing thousands of small-scale coffee farmers in Mexico and Central America into poverty. Ernesto Mendez,
assistant professor of agroecology and environmental studies, examines the coffee crisis in his new book. |
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The Art of Being Emily
Apr 23, 2008 |
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Wandering into the worlds of Emily Bernard — scholar, essayist, teacher of literature and race — is seeing a mosaic in the making. There are shards of colored glass both beautiful and dangerous; there is artistry and craft, strength and vulnerability. |
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'Bowling Alone' Author to Speak April 28
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard and author of the critically acclaimed book Bowling Alone, will give a lecture titled, “Rebuilding Community in a Diverse and Changing America,” on April 28 at 7 p.m. in the Silver Maple Ballroom of the Dudley Davis Center. |
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Islam Scholar Akbar Ahmed to Deliver April 24 Burack Lecture
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, will deliver a Burack President's Distinguished Lecture on "Islam and the West: Dialogue, Confrontation and the Way Ahead" on Thursday, April 24 at 7 p.m. in the Sugar Maple Ballroom, Davis Center. |
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Slade Hall Wins Inaugural Sustainability Contest
Apr 22, 2008 |
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The residents of Slade Hall won the university’s inaugural sustainability contest, a byproduct of the Jan. 31 Focus the Nation event on climate change, for their project titled, “A Slade Guide to Innovative, Do-It-Yourself Solutions for Reducing Carbon Footprints.” |
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