Plug, Unplug, Drive

	With gas approaching $4 a gallon, plug-in hybrid electric cars like this one — donated to the UVM Transportation Research Center by Central Vermont Public Service — could provide consumers with another alternative to reduce the costs of the daily commute. (Photo: Joshua Brown)

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?”

Transportation Center Awarded $1 Million for Workforce Development Project

UVM, Community Partners Recognized for Collaborations

Catamounts Green Up Project Set for May 3

Events, Exhibit Under Way in Memory of the Holocaust

Interdisciplinary Course to Perform Interpretation of 'Threepenny Opera' May 3, 4

University to Celebrate 204th Commencement May 18

'Bowling Alone' Author to Speak April 28

Islam Scholar Akbar Ahmed to Deliver April 24 Burack Lecture

Slade Hall Wins Inaugural Sustainability Contest

Providing Culturally Competent Care

Researchers on Belize Expedition Search for New Species, Blog Findings

Vermont Public Television’s ‘Emerging Science’ Features UVM

Former UVM Professor Returns to Defend Bush Doctrine

Stretch Therapies May Help Heal Injured Tissue

Just Coffee?

The Art of Being Emily

viewPOINT: High School Dropout Rates 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.

Classroom Meets Community 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.