April 30, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Several members of the department of pharmacology contributed to an April 30 PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) Early Edition paper titled "High blood pressure arising from a defect in vascular function." Among the co-authors are Mark Nelson, professor and chair of pharmacology, Adrian Bonev, research assistant professor of pharmacology, and Michael Wilkerson, postdoctoral associate in pharmacology.

Jan Carney, research professor of medicine and associate dean for public health, co-authored a "Brief Communication" titled "Community-Academic Partnerships: A "Community-First" Model to Teach Public Health" in the open-access e-Journal Education for Health on April 21.

April 23, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Wolfgang Mieder, professor and chairperson of the department of German and Russian, is the author of the book “Hänsel und Gretel: Das Märchen in Kunst, Musik, Literatur, Medien und Karikaturen,” which deals with the origin, meaning, and modern survvial of one of the best known fairy tales. The book includes 145 illustrations depicting the use of various motifs of this tale in art, advertising, and cartoons. He also published a series of articles on fairy tales and advertising, aphorisms, cartoons, comics, poems, proverbs, stamps, etc. in the three-volume “Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales.” His article on “`God Helps Them Who Help Themselves: Proverbial Rhetoric in the Letters of Abigail Adams” appeared in an essay volume in Bulgaria, and another article on anti-proverbs with the title “Phrasenkritik durch Antisprichwörter im 19. Jahrhundert” appeared in another volume in Austria.

Dennis Mahoney, professor and director of the department of German and Russian, has published an article on “Apt Pupil: The Making of a ‘Bogeyboy’” in a volume on “The Films of Stephen King. From “Carrie” to “Secret Window” (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) edited by Tony Magistrale, professor in the department of English. Mahoney presents a detailed comparison of King’s original novella “Apt Pupil”and its subsequent film adaptation, showing similarities and differences in these two versions of the same plot. While the novella shows how crimes of the Nazi era influence a high school pupil to commit atrocities, Mahoney also refers to actual occurrences today that show this as well, to wit the recent shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. King’s invented tale of horror unfortunately proves to be only too realistic when compared with modern crimes.

Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, associate professor of geography and Vermont state climatologist, and CO-PI Regina Toolin, assistant professor of education, have received a $149,466 grant from the National Science Foundation: Satellites, Weather and Climate to implement a two-year pilot project to increase climate education and literacy in public schools. Vermont's education department is one of 15 across the US that has signed up to integrate climate issues into their science curricula.

Edwin Bovill, professor and chair of pathology, authored an editorial in the March 19 Journal of the American Medical Association. Titled "Gene Discovery in Venous Thrombosis: progress and promise," Bovill's paper responded to an article titled "Gene Variants Associated With Deep Vein Thrombosis" (Bezemer et. al) in the March 19 JAMA.

Charles Irvin, professor of medicine and director of the Vermont Lung Center, is a co-author of an article in the April 21 Online Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science titled, "Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in lung dendritic cells promotes Th2 responses and allergic inflammation."

Gary Margolis, UVM’s chief of police, gave a presentation at a conference at Princeton University on April 18 marking the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting at Virginia tech that explored the progress and continuing questions related to campus security. The event, titled "Campus Safety in Focus: Advances and Ongoing Challenges One Year Later," featured the release of a "Blueprint for Safer Campuses" by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA). Steven Healy, Princeton's director of public safety and immediate past president of IACLEA, was joined by Margolis and Dolores Stafford, chief of police at George Washington University. Katherine Newman, Princeton's Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, delivered the keynote address. Newman is the author of "Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings," which examines the rash of school shootings in the 1990s, the roots of school violence and the repercussions for the affected communities. Campus safety professionals and other experts also participated in panel discussions on the best practices and model policies in threat assessment, the growing complexities in liability analysis and the state of campus safety in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

April 16, 2008

Publications and Presentations

The March 2008 issue of NIDA Notes from the National Institute on Drug Abuse featured an article titled "Combination Treatment Extends Marijuana Abstinence" focused on research by Stephen Higgins, professor of psychiatry and psychology and co-director of the Human Behavioral Pharmacology Lab and Substance Abuse Treatment Center, and colleagues. The research team found that using a combination of vouchers and cognitive-behavioral therapy may be more effective in keeping marijuana abusers abstinent in the longer term than vouchers-only and CBT-only programs.

Rick Vanden Bergh, professor of business administration and expert on corporate strategy in the political environment, was featured in an article on CFO.com about how the accounting profession still gives most of its campaign contributions to Republicans, but that the portion going to Democrats is growing. Vanden Bergh tells CFO.com that proving the exact motivation behind corporate political donations is a difficult feat, adding that contributions to congressional representatives and senators are more effective for firms in a regulated profession (such as accounting) because those legislators play a more pivotal role than the president in policy making and in the oversight of regulatory institutions such as the SEC. CFO.com notes that in a recent paper called "Targeting Corporate Political Strategy: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Accounting Industry," Vanden Bergh analyzed the corporate strategy of the accounting profession when Democrats took over in 1992, following Bill Clinton's election. His paper argues that firms in the early 1990s made their donations with the intent of directly influencing policy decisions, though he acknowledges another theory that says firms simply shift their donations to the party with the most influence. "It could easily be that the shift in power is driving the shift in contributions," he says. "If Obama or Clinton wins, it will be the first time in eight years that Democrats control all three branches and it would likely [cause] a major shift."

Awards and Honors Three members of the department of pediatrics will serve in national editorial leadership roles as part of an upcoming change at Pediatrics, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and preeminent journal in the world in its field. Dr. Jerold Lucey, Wallace Professor of Neonatology and Pediatrics editor-in-chief for the past 34 years, will step down as of January 2009 and become editor-in-chief emeritus. Stepping up as the new deputy editor will be Dr. Lewis First, professor and chair of pediatrics and senior associate dean for medical education. In addition, Dr. Jeffrey Horbar, Lucey Chair of Neonatal Medicine, will become one of three new associate editors for the journal.

Robert Karp, associate professor in the department of medicine and a leader and innovator in clinical care and education with a specialty in geriatrics, has been named a 2009-20010 Frymoyer Scholar for his project titled, “Improving Basic Medical Student Competencies in Clinical Geriatrics.”

April 9, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Dr. Magdalena Naylor, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the MindBody Medicine Clinic, is lead author of a February 2008 article in the journal Pain titled "Therapeutic Interactive Voice Response for chronic pain reduction and relapse prevention." Co-authors on the paper include Dr. John Helzer, professor of psychiatry and director of the Health Behavior Research Center, and Shelly Naud, researcher/analyst in the department of medical biostatistics.

Kevin C. H. Chiang, associate professor of business administration, co-authored an article with Kirill Kozhevnikov, Ming-Long Lee and Craig Wisen that was published in the spring, 2008 issue of Real Estate Economics. The article is titled "Further Evidence on the Performance of Funds of Funds: The Case of Real Estate Mutual Funds." The study examines funds of funds that are created when investment companies invest in other investment companies. Although the additional layer of fees incurred by funds of funds has a negative effect on returns, there is empirical evidence that real estate funds of funds generate superior performance net of fees and risk adjustments. The evidence is inconsistent with a growing consensus that most actively managed mutual funds do not, on average, generate excess returns after adjusting for fees and risk. This study explains this apparent contradiction and finds that most real estate funds of funds do not outperform their benchmarks under alternative risk adjustment specifications.

The March 2008 issue of NIDA Notes from the National Institute on Drug Abuse featured an article titled "Combination Treatment Extends Marijuana Abstinence" that focused on research by Stephen Higgins, professor of psychiatry and psychology and co-director of the Human Behavioral Pharmacology Lab and Substance Abuse Treatment Center, and colleagues. The research team found that using a combination of vouchers and cognitive-behavioral therapy may be more effective in keeping marijuana abusers abstinent in the longer term than vouchers-only and CBT-only programs.

Awards and Honors

Valerie Esposito, a doctoral student in natural resources and ecological economics, has been selected to participate in the Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and Globalization, organized jointly by Columbia University's Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) and University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI). The highly selective, all-expense paid workshop (10 percent acceptance rate) will be held in the summer of 2008. The acceptance letter was signed by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz.

Tian Xia, assistant professor in engineering, is one of 17 faculty from universities around the world including Singapore, Toronto, Gosudarstvennyi Upravlenija, Georgia, California, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Massachusetts, Colorado, and New York, who received the prestigious 2008 IBM Faculty Award. This competitive worldwide program is intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading worldwide universities with IBM research, development and services organizations. The IBM Faculty Awards recognize full-time professors at accredited universities with Ph.D or MBA programs promoting courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM. Xia received this award for his extensive research on mixed signal VLSI circuit design and test, adaptive and multifunctional VLSI Design, and Reconfigurable FPGA Design and Testing. He is a member of IEEE- Computer Society and IEEE- Solid State Circuits Society. “This internationally competitive award highlights the importance of industry alliances with education,” says Domenico Grasso, Dean of the UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences.

April 2, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Jane Okech, assistant professor in the Graduate Counseling Program, is scheduled to present two papers at the Annual American Counseling Association Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 27-31. Both papers are based on empirical studies: “ Doctoral Research Training of Counselor Education Faculty” and “The experiences of expert group work supervisors: An exploratory study.”

Russell Tracy, professor of pathology and biochemistry and senior associate dean for research and academic affairs at the College of Medicine, is a co-author on an article in the March 27 New England Journal of Medicine titled "Coronary Calcium as a Predictor of Coronary Events in Four Racial or Ethnic Groups." Tracy heads up the central laboratory for the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), which is a long-term, multicenter study designed to locate and identify genes contributing to the genetic risk of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) and evaluate the impact of lifestyle and environment on the expression of these genetic components of CVD.

Kathleen Liang, associate professor of community development and applied economics has given presentations at multiple conferences around the country in 2008. She started by presenting on “Are Entrepreneurs Optimistic, Realistic, Both or Fuzzy? The Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Traits and Entrepreneurial Learning” at Academy of Entrepreneurship, Allied Academies where she won the Outstanding Research Award. She gave also presented at the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) annual conference in Dallas in March on “An Interactive Workshop: Thinking Outside The Box, But Where Is The Box?” She also gave presentations at the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Meeting in San Antonio titled “A Life Case: Growing Vermont: The Student-Run Retail Shop on UVM Campus” and “Interactive Workshop: Who And Where Are Entrepreneurship Professors?”

Faculty members in the School of Business Administration will be presenting papers at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Anaheim, California in August, 2008. David Jones, assistant professor, is presenting a study in which he found that Business Administration majors who received training in business ethics demonstrated advancements in their stages of cognitive-moral development relative to a control group. In a second paper, Jones and his co-authors (Joseph Schmidt and Derek Chapman, University of Calgary) conducted a field experiment in which they manipulated the wording of on-line job advertisements to emphasize different aspects of employee-organization fit. Results showed that certain kinds of fit-information significantly increased the size and quality of the applicant pool for engineering and other professional positions. Mark Youndt, associate professor, and his co-authors (Caroline D’Abate, Skidmore College, and Kathryn Wenzel, Vitale, Caturano, and Company) will present a study in which they examined the influence of job characteristics, work environment characteristics, and other contextual factors on the satisfaction and learning of student interns in a broad array of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

March 26, 2008

Publications and Presentations

David Jones, assistant professor of business administration, and his coauthors, Drs. Neil Fassina and Krista Uggerslev (Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba) had an article published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Management. The article was titled: “Relationship Clean-up Time: Using Meta-analysis and Path Analysis to Clarify the Relationships among Job Satisfaction, Perceived Fairness, and Citizenship Behaviors.” The authors tested competing theoretical frameworks to explain the pattern of relationships among employees’ perceptions of fairness, job satisfaction, and five types of job behaviors that can be collectively described as “going above and beyond the call of duty.” The authors found greatest support for an independent effects model, which suggests that managers can promote cooperative work behavior by fostering three separate types of perceived fairness as well as general job satisfaction.

Garrison Nelson, professor of political science, was interviewed during the Vermont presidential primary by CNN, Associated Press, TIME Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, La Presse (Que.), Vermont Public Radio, New England Cable News three times, WPTZ-TV (4), Fox 44 News (3), the Boston Globe twice, the Providence Journal, the Burlington Free Press, the Bennington Banner, and Vermont Woman.

A number of faculty from the department of radiology received awards for their educational posters at the 93rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America held November 25-30, 2007 in Chicago. The following poster presentations won awards: "Imaging Findings of Adipose Tissue in and around the Heart: A Matter of Fat" received a Cum Laude award in the category of educational exhibit. Co-authors included Dr. Diego Lemos, clinical instructor in radiology, Dr. Julio Lemos, clinical instructor in radiology, Dr. Jeffrey Klein, professor of radiology, Dr. Curtis Green, professor of radiology, Dr. George Gentchos, clinical assistant professor of radiology, and Dr. Peter Dietrich, professor of radiology; "CT Findings of Grown-Up Congenital Heart Disease" received a Cum Laude award in the category of educational exhibit. Co-authors included Dr. Julio Lemos, Dr. Diego Lemos, Dr. Curtis Green, Dr. George Gentchos, Dr. Peter Dietrich, and Dr. Jeffrey Klein; "Fetus in Fetu: Reality and Myth" received a Cum Laude award in the category of educational exhibit. Co-authors included Dr. Diego Lemos; "The Suprapatellar Region: Anatomy, Pathology, and Imaging Findings" received a Certificate of Merit award in the category of educational exhibit. Co-authors included Dr. Diego Lemos and Dr. Evelyne Fliszar, associate professor of radiology; "The Patella Revisited" received a Certificate of Merit award in the category of educational exhibit. Co-authors included Dr. Diego Lemos, Dr. Julio Lemos, and Dr. Evelyne Fliszar.

March 19, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Dr. James J. Hudziak, professor of psychiatry, medicine and pediatrics and director of the Vermont Center for Children, Youth and Families, is editor of a new book published March 1 by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI). Titled "Developmental Psychopathology and Wellness: Genetic and Environmental Influences," the book features work from a team of 22 international authorities on psychiatric illness in children and adolescents, including Hudziak and Thomas Achenbach, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology. According to APPI, "Developmental Psychopathology and Wellness shows that these psychopathologies are not a matter of nature versus nurture or genes versus environment, but rather an intertwining web of them all." Hudziak is also co-editor of Psychopathology in the 21st Century: DSM-V and Beyond (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2002). His research focuses on using twin, family and molecular genetic approaches in order to understand genetic and environmental influences on a wide variety of child psychiatric conditions.

Rebecca Evans, a second-year medical student, has been invited to compete in the Medical Student Poster Competition at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center as part of the American College of Physicians national meeting, Internal Medicine 2008, in Washington, DC on May 17, 2008. Evans' poster abstract, titled "Impact Of Mixed Mode Simulation Based Training On Performance Of Central Venous Line Placement In Cardiac Surgical Patients," was one of only 70 abstracts chosen from the 225 submissions received for the 2008 competition. The poster will be included in the Quality Improvement-Patient Safety category.

March 5, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Several members of the Vermont Center for Children, Youth and Families in the department of psychiatry recently published two important journal articles. Dr. David Rettew, assistant professor of psychiatry, is lead author and Dr. Robert Althoff, assistant professor of psychiatry, Dr. James Hudziak, professor of psychiatry, medicine and pediatrics, and Linsay Ayer, graduate student in psychiatry, are co-authors of an article titled "Latent profiles analysis of child temperament and their relations to psychopathology and wellness" in the Jan. 22, 2008 epub edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Rettew and Hudziak are also co-authors on an article in the Feb. 1, 2008 epub edition of Behavior Genetics titled "Non-additive and additive genetic effects on extraversion in 3314 Dutch adolescent twins and their parents."

Awards and Honors

Jennifer Kenyan, graduate student in the Master of Public Administration Program (MPA), will participate in the ENO Leadership Development Conference in Washington D.C. this May. The ENO Transportation Foundation selects 20 outstanding graduate students from throughout the country to participate in this conference. Kenyan is a graduate fellow at the Snelling Center for Government working on research sponsored by the University Transportation Center. Her research focuses on how states and nations are preparing themselves for a post gas tax world, maintaining and growing transportation infrastructure, and what the lessons are for Vermont. As an Eno Fellow, Kenyan will meet with leaders from key transportation organizations and institutions including US Department of Transportation, congressional committees, industry associations and advocacy groups. She will also become a part of the Eno Alumni Network which includes transportation leaders from throughout the country.

February 27, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Marilyn Lucas, assistant professor of business administration, published an article titled, "Tracking the Relationship between Environmental Management and Financial Performance in the Service Industry," in Service Business: An International Journal. The paper, co-authored with M. A. Wilson, from Arcadis, Inc., investigates the relationship between the implementation of environmental management practices and financial performance in the context of the service industry. The findings support the hypothesis that it pays for service sector firms to have "clean-running facilities" in addition to running facilities in a "cleaner service industry."

Garrison Nelson, professor of political science, wrote an op-ed article in the Jan. 4 issue of the Boston Globe titled "Success for one Kennedy, but not the other." Nelson writes about the significance of the New Hampshire primary using Jack and Ted Kennedy's bids for the Democratic ticket as evidence. He was also quoted in a Feb. 22 Boston Globe article on the appeal of the presidential candidates to moderates. Nelson co-authored an article in January appearing in Political Science & Politics. His article, "Middlemen No More? Emergent Patterns in Congressional Leadership Selection," explores a possible shift in the political profile of party leaders — from "middlemen" to politicians from the ideological extremes.

Awards and Honors

Heather Cairl, senior film and television studies major, recently presented a solo dance, "Dirthead," for adjudication at the New England regional conference of the American College Dance Festival Association at Connecticut College. Her work was selected as one of the best in the conference to be performed again in a closing gala concert. “Heather performed with works from universities with much more developed dance programs,” says Paul Besaw, assistant professor of dance. “This was a major honor for (her), and for our new dance program.”

Jeanine Carr, associate professor of nursing, was appointed by Governor Jim Douglas to the Vermont Board of Nursing for a four-year term, beginning in January 2008. She is the first faculty member from the UVM department of nursing to be appointed to this board.

Ahmad Chaudry, assistant professor of medical laboratory and radiation sciences, has been awarded a $50,000 research grant from the Vermont Cancer Center for his project "Regulation of gene expression in radiation-treated cells." The project will examine the molecular events (specifically the mechanism of gene regulation) in human cells treated with radiation. The long-term goal of this research is to gain a better understanding of how best to manage radiation therapy patients.

David Jones, assistant professor of business administration, has been elected to serve as chair of the board of directors for the New Sudan Education Initiative, an organization founded and directed by UVM alums with the goal of building 20 secondary accelerated learning and leadership academies throughout southern Sudan by 2015.

Burton Wilcke, chair of medical laboratory and radiation sciences, was invited by the Association of Public Health Laboratories and Centers for Disease Control to lead a one-week PEPFAR-funded lab leadership workshop in Tanzania last week.

February 20, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Jamie Shaw, lecturer in the Department of Animal Science, is featured in this month’s edition of Business People-Vermont magazine. The article describes her activities as a highly successful dog trainer. Shaw teaches the UVM course "Dog Training and Behavior," which is one of the most popular in the department. The article describes Shaw's work as an expert in dog behavior and as the operator of the dog training facility, The Dog School, in Williston. She is also author of the book “Dog to Dog Communication: The Right Way to Socialize Your Dog."

February 13, 2008

Publications and Presentations

David Novak, assistant professor of business administration, had a paper accepted for publication in Decision Support Systems titled “Managing Bandwidth Allocations between Competing Recreational and Non-Recreational Traffic on Campus Networks.” The paper demonstrates a decision support methodology to set optimal bandwidth allocations for competing recreational peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing traffic and non-recreational traffic (non-P2P) with respect to minimizing the total cost of network operations. Total costs include the explicit costs to the Internet provider associated with network management, as well as the implicit costs resulting from unsatisfied users under various bandwidth allocation scenarios. Management decisions include bandwidth allocations for P2P and non-P2P traffic during specific time periods, as well as the number of allocation changes made during the day. A goal program (GP) is used to estimate both P2P capacity demand and P2P user demand at different time periods and bandwidth allocations. A Markov Decision Process (MDP) is used to solve the cost minimization problem. A real-world example for optimizing bandwidth allocations between competing P2P and non-P2P interests is provided using empirical data from a large university.

Carolyn Bonifield, assistant professor, and Amy Tomas, lecturer, both of the School of Business Administration, had a paper titled “A Different Reality: Considering Possible Selves in Virtual Worlds,” accepted for the 2008 Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference on Virtual Social Identity and Consumer Behavior. The conference will take place in Philadelphia in May. Bonifield and Tomas are currently working on a program of research focused on marketers' and consumers' behaviors in virtual worlds. These virtual worlds, among them the very popular Second Life, present a number of unique challenges and opportunities for promoting, selling and buying goods and services. The paper proposes an alternative version of the self-concept, referred to as the possible self, as a means to better understand the motivations behind consumers' willingness to spend significant sums of real currency on virtual goods and services. In addition to this paper, Bonifield and Tomas are working on several pieces of research related to marketing in the virtual world, including two independent study research projects with Business Administration seniors, Megan Piro and Jamie Webber.

James Sinkula, professor of business administration and John L. Beckley Chair, had an article accepted for publication by the Journal of Small Business Management titled “The Complementary Effects of Market Orientation and Entrepreneurial Orientation on Profitability in Small Business.” The article, co-authored with William Baker of San Diego State University, examines two cultural factors present in companies. The first is the firm's market orientation, which reflects the degree to which strategic market planning is driven by customer and competitor intelligence. The second is the firm's entrepreneurial orientation, which reflects the degree to which firms' growth objectives are driven by the identification and exploitation of untapped market opportunities. The paper finds that both factors are drivers of profitability, one of which is direct and the other mediated.

February 6, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Garrison Nelson, professor of political science, wrote an op-ed article in the Nov. 3, 2007 edition of the Boston Globe titled “Border wars in fight for presidency.” It focused on the early domination of New York in presidential politics (New York natives and/or residents received 47 major party nominations for president and vice president from the first election in 1789) and how the emergence of the New Hampshire changed that forever.

Awards and Honors

DeMethra LaSha Bradley, assistant director for academic integrity in the Center for Student Ethics and Standards, has been selected as a 2008 Annuit Coeptis Emerging Professional. The Annuit Coeptis award was created by the American College Personnel Association to commemorate the life and work of Dr. Philip Tripp. Annually three senior professionals and five emerging professionals are honored at a dinner where they can engage in lively and thoughtful discussions about professional issues. The Latin phrase "annuit coeptis" reflects Professor Tripp's optimism for the future of the profession by suggesting that the gods have smiled upon that which we have begun.

The College of Medicine Class of 2010 held an awards ceremony and reception on Feb. 1 in honor of their completion of the Foundations level of the Vermont Integrated Curriculum (VIC). The awards and recipients were as follows:

Outstanding Foundations Course:
"Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Renal Systems"

Foundations Course Director Award:
William Hopkins, M.D., associate professor of medicine and course director, Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Renal Systems.

Foundations Teaching Award:
William Hopkins, M.D., associate professor of medicine. The recipient of this award will be hooding the Class of 2010 at their graduation and will be recognized with other Teachers of the Year from the past.

The Dean Warshaw Integration Award:
Richard Salerno, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics. This award recognizes the faculty member whose teaching best captured the spirit of the Vermont Integrated Curriculum.

The Silver Stethoscope Award (a.k.a. "Inspirational Cameo of the Year"):
James Hudziak, M.D., professor of psychiatry and medicine. This award recognizes the faculty member who had few lecture hours, but made a substantial contribution to students' education.

Above and Beyond Award
Ellen Cornbrooks, Ph.D., lecturer in anatomy and neurobiology. This award recognizes the faculty member (not necessarily a lecturer) who went above and beyond the call of duty to help the students in their learning objectives.

Best Support Staff (Non-teaching):
Mike Cross, custodial maintenance worker. This award recognizes the staff member who best supported students in areas besides teaching.

The American Medical Student Association Golden Apple Award:
Cynthia Forehand, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and neurobiology, and Jean Szilva, M.D., lecturer in anatomy and neurobiology. This award recognized the professor who has had significant impact on the educational value that the medical student receives from his/her coursework.

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award:
Suezie Kim, M.D., alumna, College of Medicine Class of 2007, and resident in orthopaedic surgery at the New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases.

January 30, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Anthony Morielli, associate professor of pharmacology, is lead author of a Feb. 8 Journal of Biological Chemistry article titled "Homeostatic Regulation of Kv1.2 Potassium Channel Trafficking by Cyclic AMP." Co-authors on the study include Emilee Connors, pharmacology graduate student, and Bryan Ballif, assistant professor of biology.

Dr. Magdalena Naylor, associate professor of psychiatry, is lead author of an article in the Feb. 8 issue of Pain titled "Therapeutic Interactive Voice Response for Chronic Pain Reduction and Relapse Prevention." Co-authors on the report include Shelly Naud, researcher/analyst in medical biostatistics, and Dr. John Helzer, professor of psychiatry.

Awards and Honors

Julie Dumas, research assistant professor of psychiatry, was recently selected as the winner of the Barry Lebowitz Early Career Scientist Award from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry for 2008. The award is presented for the best, unpublished paper by an early career investigator. As the award recipient, Dumas will be an invited lecturer at the 2008 AAGP meeting and receive a cash award.

January 23, 2008

Publications and Presentations

Wolfgang Dostmann, associate professor of pharmacology, is lead author of a December 2007 Proceedings of the National Academy of Science article titled "Differential patterning of cGMP in vascular smooth muscle cells revealed by single GFP-linked biosensor." Co-authors on the article include graduate student Lydia Nausch, Jonathan Ledoux, a postdoctoral fellow in pharmacology, Adrian Bonev, research assistant professor of pharmacology, and Mark Nelson, professor and chair of pharmacology.

Christopher Hodgdon, assistant professor of business administration, published an article titled “Compliance with IFRS Disclosure Requirements and Individual Analysts’ Forecast Errors,” in the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation (Volume 17, Number 1, 2008). The paper is co-authored with Rasoul H. Tondkar and David W. Harless, both from Virginia Commonwealth University, and Ajay Adhikari, from The American University. The study investigates the relationship between analysts’ earnings forecast errors and firm compliance with the disclosure requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). These findings suggest that compliance with the disclosure requirements of IFRS reduces information asymmetry and enhances the ability of financial analysts to provide more accurate forecasts.

Dr. Christopher Huston, assistant professor of medicine, is a co-author of a Jan. 18 PLoS Pathogens article titled "Entamoeba histolytica Phagocytosis of Human Erythrocytes Involves PATMK, a Member of the Transmembrane Kinase Family." This new study, on which UVM researchers collaborated with scientists at the University of Virginia, identified a protein that may help control a parasite that attacks human immune cells in the colon.

Trina Magi, associate library professor, had an article titled, “The gap between theory and practice: A study of the prevalence and strength of patron confidentiality policies in public and academic libraries” appear in Library and Information Science Research (Volume 29, Issue 4 December 2007). Magi’s article reports on a survey administered to 151 Vermont public and academic library directors in 2006, regarding the existence of policies affirming the confidentiality of library records at their institutions. Based in part on Magi's findings, the Vermont Library Association and the Vermont School Library Association recently worked with legislators to introduce a bill to the Vermont State Legislature to better protect the confidentiality of library patrons in Vermont.

Awards and Honors

Judith Van Houten, George H. Perkins Professor of Biology, State Director of Vermont EPSCoR (funded by NSF) and Vermont Genetics Network (funded by NIH), was recently appointed to the EPSCoR/IDeA Coalition Board of Directors. Dr. Paul Prem, chair of the Coalition Board praised Van Houten in a letter to her by writing: "Your knowledge and experience is invaluable to the Coalition Board and the EPSCoR/IDeA community." The coalition of EPSSCoR/IDeA states was organized to engage in activities that will expand the capacity of the Unites States to carry out scientific and engineering research and education. As a director, Van Houten will be responsible for participating in strategic discussions about the course of the EPSCoR/IDeA programs and the role of EPSCoR/IDeA Coalition in supporting the goals and objectives of its programs. Van Houten's term of service is two years beginning January 2008.

January 16, 2008

Publications and Presentations

The Center for Digital Initiatives (CDI) is featured in an article titled “Drinking Milk with Republicans: Lessons Learned While Building a Center for Digital Initiatives” in the Summer 2007 issue of Microform and Imaging Review. The article, authored by Assistant Library Professors Winona Salesky (Digital Initiatives Librarian) and Chris Burns (Manuscripts Curator, Special Collections), provides a detailed behind-the-scenes look at the process of creating the CDI at UVM. The Center for Digital Initiatives was launched in April of 2007 and features a rich, searchable archive of thousands of pages of materials generated by Vermont Congressmen, including such well know figures as George Aiken and Robert Stafford, documenting topics ranging from the abolition of slavery to social life in Washington, D.C. The collection also includes historic photographs of Vermont and Vermonters.

Birdie MacLennan, associate library professor, has an article titled "The Library and Its Place in Cultural Memory: The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec in the Construction of Social and Cultural Identity" in a recent issue of the journal Libraries and the Cultural Record, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2007. MacLennan's article looks at the eventual creation of a national library in Québec, investigating the role of the Catholic Church as it struggled to control public reading tastes through an Index of prohibited works that included Hugo, Rousseau, Balzac, and Voltaire. "The Library and Its Place in Cultural Memory” is the result of research undertaken during a sabbatical, which compared public library development in the province of Québec and the state of Vermont. The subject is covered in expanded form in Birdie MacLennan’s thesis, completed in 2005 for her MA in French from the University of Vermont. UVM affiliates can access the full-text of MacLennan’s thesis via the Libraries' catalog.

Helga Schreckenberger, professor in the Department of German and Russian, has published a paper entitled “Von Ethnozentrismus zu Multikulturalität. Vladimir Vertlibs ‘Zwischenstationen’” in Schwarz auf Weiss, Ein transatlantisches Würdigungsbuch für Egon Schwarz (Wien: Czernin, 2007), pp. 60-68. The article investigates Vladimir Vertlib’s autobiographical novel Zwischenstationen (1999) in which this Russian-Austrian author takes his readers from St. Petersburg to Israel, then to Vienna, Amsterdam, Rome, back to Israel, on to Ostia, Brooklyn, and Boston, and eventually back to Vienna. This odyssey is marked by the feeling of having no home, cultural alienation, exclusion and separation from the surroundings. Even though there is plenty of multiculturalism shown and experienced in this intriguing account, very rigid borders and differences remain regarding national, cultural, ethnic, and social configurations. This kind of ethnocentricity is put into question in this novel by exposing the arbitrariness of national and ethnic identities and showing the problems of nationality and ethnicity in the search for a personal identity. The analysis shows that only an intercultural and transnational cooperation will give modern people in the age of globalization the opportunity to develop a positive feeling of identity. Schreckenberge also had an published on “Frauen an der Front: Der Erste Weltkrieg und seine Folgen für weibliches Selbstverständnis” in an essay volume titled Information Warfare: The Role of the Media in the Representation and Interpretation of War. The paper deals with women at the war front as depicted in several American, German, and British novels dealing with the First World War and its impact on female (self) consciousness. Schreckenberger analyzes how the daily experiences of women at the war front challenge previously unquestioned notions of patriotism, femininity, sexuality and class. The similarities of the protagonists in these novels underscore the universally destructive nature of war.

Wolfgang Mieder, professor and chair of the Department of German and Russian, is the author of three articles. His paper on “`Whoever Comes too Late Will Be Punished by Life Itself’: From Michail Gorbachev’s Statement to the Folk Proverb” appeared in German in the Russian journal Nauchnyi Vestnik, an article on “Anti-Proverbs and Mass Communication: The Interplay of Traditional and Innovative Folklore” was published in the Hungarian journal Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, and his essay on "Don’t Swap Horses in the Middle of the Stream: An Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Study of an International Proverb" is included in a Portuguese essay volume entitled Estudos sobre Patrimonio Oral. The three papers look at the cross-cultural use and function of proverbs in politics and the mass media.

Kevin C. H. Chiang, associate professor of business administration, co-authored an article with Ming-Long Lee and Ming-Te Lee that was published in the February, 2008 issue of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. The article is titled "Real Estate Risk Exposure of Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts." The study examines the linkage between equity real estate investment trust (REIT) returns and the private real estate factor. The results reveal a tighter connection between REIT and the private real estate market starting from 1993. In addition, large-cap REITs seem to behave more like real estate than do small-cap REITs. Overall, the results are consistent with three notions: (1) that institutional investors provide information-gathering services, (2) that a more sophisticated investor base improves information flow, and (3) that a high degree of participation from institutional investors strengthens the linkage between REIT returns and the underlying real estate factor.

Jamie Shaw, lecturer in the Department of Animal Science, recently published a book, Dog to Dog Communication: The Right Way to Socialize Your Dog. She is also being featured in upcoming issues of Business People Vermont magazine and Woman’s World Magazine. Shaw has a new training center in Williston and teaches the very popular UVM course, "Dog Training and Behavior."

Awards and Honors

President Daniel Mark Fogel was named 2007 "Vermonter of the Year" by the Burlington Free Press in an editorial published in the Jan. 1, 2008 edition of the newspaper. The editorial applauds Fogel's work to make UVM an engine of environmentally themed economic development in the state. By promoting "sustainability research" at the university, which should spawn a variety of entrepreneurial green businesses in the state, the paper says, Fogel is tapping into the rising awareness at the state and national levels of the threat global climate change poses -- and is helping Vermont become a leader in finding solutions to global warming.

Dr. Omar A. Khan, a 2003 College of Medicine alumnus and clinical assistant professor of family medicine, and Dr. Rebecca Winokur, clinical instructor of family medicine and a 2000 College of Medicine graduate, are among an exclusive group of physicians who were recently honored by the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation for their commitment to education in the field of family medicine. Kahn and Winokur were each selected to receive a 2007 Pfizer Teacher Development Award based on scholastic achievement, leadership qualities and dedication to family medicine.

Dean Fayneese Miller of the College of Education and Social Services will be given an honorary Dr. Martin Luther King Award at the annual program at Burlington City Hall on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 3:00 p.m. The keynote speaker will be Stedman Graham, an author, entrepreneur and companion to Oprah Winfrey.

Julie Smith, assistant professor in the Department of Animal Science, received the 2007 Peggy R. Williams Emerging Professional Award given by the Vermont Women in Higher Education an affiliation of the Office of Women in Higher Education at the American Council on Education. The award is given annually to a woman who demonstrates excellence in professional contributions to students, colleagues and/or educational institutions; who contributes in one or more areas of outstanding service, innovative programs, publications, teaching, professional activities or research; and who shows promise and potential for future contributions to her profession.

In Memoriam

Herman C. Herrlich, a research associate at the College of Medicine from the late 1950s through the 1970s, died at age 93 on Jan. 5, 2008. Herrlich, a heart researcher, earned his doctorate at Northwestern University. An unusually vigorous and energetic man, Herrlich maintained a hobby farm for many years as he worked at UVM and continued a vegetable garden into his 90s. (He downhill skied into his 80s.) He was an active community volunteer after his retirement, and is survived by a large number of devoted friends and family.

Dec. 5, 2007

Publications and Presentations

Robert J. Kelm, Jr., assistant professor of medicine and biochemistry, Anna M. Knapp and Jon E. Ramsey, pre-doctoral fellows in biochemistry, and Shu-Xia Wang, laboratory research technician in biochemistry, co-authored an article titled "Structure-Function Analysis of Mouse Pur B II: Conformation Altering Mutations Disrupt Single-Stranded DNA and Protein Interactions Crucial to Smooth Muscle a-Actin Gene Repression" in the Dec. 7 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Rick Vanden Bergh, associate professor of business administration, co-authored an article with Guy Holburn of the University of Western Ontario in Business & Politics titled “Targeting Corporate Political Strategy: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Accounting Industry.” The article analyzes the interaction between a firm and multiple government institutions to develop predictions about how firms target their political strategies at different branches of government when seeking favorable public policies. Vanden Bergh and Holburn develop a hypothesis that firms will target their resources at the institution that is “pivotal” in the policy-making process. They find empirical support for their thesis in an analysis of how U.S. accounting firms shifted their political campaign contributions between the House and Senate in response to the threat of new regulations governing auditor independence during the 1990s.

Masha Ivanova, research assistant professor of psychiatry, and Thomas M. Achenbach, professor of psychiatry and psychology, recently co-authored six peer-reviewed articles that report comparisons of the level and patterning of behavioral and emotional problems reported by parents, teachers and children in dozens of societies around the world. The papers include "Testing the 8-syndrome structure of the Child Behavior Checklist in 30 societies" in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology; "Testing the Teacher’s Report Form syndromes in 20 societies" in the School Psychology Review; "The generalizability of the Youth Self-Report syndrome structure in 23 societies" in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; "Behavioral and emotional problems reported by parents of children ages 6 to 16 in 31 societies" in the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders; "Consistency of teacher-reported problems for students in 21 countries" in the School Psychology Review; and "Epidemiological comparisons of problems and positive qualities reported by adolescents in 24 countries" in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Richard Kast, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, co-authored a paper in the April 19, 2007 New England Journal of Medicine titled "Dopamine agonists and valvular heart disease." Kast was also a co-author on the following articles: "Using blood brain barrier disruption by methamphetamine for drug delivery" in the October 2007 Journal of Neurooncology; and "How lithium treatment generates neutrophilia by enhancing phosphorylation of GSK-3, increasing HIF-1 levels and how this path is important during engraftment" in the October 2007 Bone Marrow Transplantation.

Awards and Honors

Ken Bauer, assistant professor of community development and applied economics, has been selected as the winner of the Junior Scholar Award by the American Anthropological Association's Anthropology and Environment section for his paper, "Common Property and Power: Insights from a Spatial Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Pasture Boundaries among Pastoralists in Central Tibet.”

Stephanie McConaughy, research professor of psychiatry, psychology and education, was appointed associate editor of the School Psychology Review, one of the leading journals in the field of school psychology. Her new book, titled Collaborating with Parents for Early School Success: The Achieving-Behaving-Caring Program, was released in October by Guildford Publications.

Betty Rambur, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Barbara McIntosh, professor of business administration, and MaryVal Palumbo, director of the Office of Nursing Workforce, were honored in November at the 2007 International Awards in Nursing Excellence by Sigma Tau International (a nursing honor society) for the best publication in the profession and society category. The article "Educational Preparation as a Determinant of Career Retention and Job Satisfaction Among American Registered Nurses" was published in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

Stephen Higgins, professor of psychiatry and psychology, received notice that his National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse grant to continue researching outpatient treatments for cocaine dependence in the UVM Substance Abuse Treatment Center received a fundable priority score (134 and 9.6 percentile ranking). This NIH-funded program has offered free treatment for cocaine dependence to hundreds of addicted adults from the Vermont community over the past 18 years and will now be able to continue doing so for at least another five years.

Conference Activities

Department of Communication Sciences faculty and graduate and undergraduate students participated in the 2007 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention held in Boston Nov. 16-17. This year’s convention coincided with the first annual CMSI alumni social hosted by the department.

Patricia Prelock, professor and chair of communication sciences, co-chaired the 2007 ASHA convention and is vice president elect for ASHA Quality of Services in Speech-Language Pathology.

Prelock presented with current and former graduate students on three poster presentations. She collaborated with current graduate student, Courtney Ehlers, and faculty colleagues, Tiffany Hutchins, Rebecca McCauley and Sarah Burchard, on a poster presentation titled: "Effects of communicative contexts on narratives of children with ASD." She also collaborated with Hutchins, McCauley and former graduate student Emily Schug on a poster titled: "Supporting social skills in one child with autism"; and she collaborated with colleagues Michael Cannizzaro, Dinah Smith and former graduate student Meena Tondravi on a poster titled: Conversational skills of children who are deaf with cochlear implants.

Michael Cannizzaro, an assistant professor of communication sciences, collaborated with current and former graduate and undergraduate students on several poster presentations. These students included current graduate student Jessica Decker on a poster titled: "Narrative discourse treatment in persons with traumatic brain injury"; former graduate student Danielle Johnson on a poster titled: "Comprehension of the matrix clause in embedded sentences in agrammatism"; and a former undergraduate student, Brenda Lovette, on a poster titled: "Attendance in communication groups and QOL in persons with aphasia."

Gayle Belin, clinical associate professor of communication sciences, participated in her third year as the only Vermont representative to the Legislative Council of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The council met in Boston during the convention. Belin has recently been became president-elect of the Vermont Speech Language Hearing Association to begin January 2008. She will assume her presidency in January 2009.

Barry Guitar, professor of communication science, participated in a two-hour seminar with colleagues discussing "Fluency disorders: Examining the past — cultivating the future." He also collaborated with a former graduate student, Danra Kazenski, and fellow faculty McCauley and Bill Falls, associate professor of psychology, on a poster titled: "Physiological responses to stress in preschool children who stutter." In addition, he collaborated with former graduate student, Ashley Clark, on a poster presentation entitled: "Distance adaptations of the Lidcombe program: A case study."

Professor Rebecca McCauley presented a one hour seminar with several colleagues on: "The effectiveness of oral-motor exercises: An evidence-based systematic review." She also collaborated with former graduate student, Allyson Hathaway, on a poster titled: "Assessment & management of tongue-tie in children: A survey of related professionals"; and former graduate student, Jessica Dillon-Stathacopulos, on a poster titled: "Target-selection strategy effects on phonological learning in preschool twins."

Many CMSI students volunteered at the convention including graduate students Cocoa Blake, Sarah “Freddie” Cousins, Laura Bonazinga, Courtney Ehlers and undergraduate Erin Greer Mealy.

Nov. 28, 2007

Awards and Honors

Department of Social work faculty members Martha Dewees, emerita associate professor, and Fiona Patterson, associate professor, and staff member Lisa Lax were recognized at the annual meeting of the National Association of Social Workers (Vermont chapter) with exemplary service awards for their work on behalf of the chapter.

Nov. 14, 2007

Publications and Presentations

A study co-authored by Kathleen Trybus and Susan Lowey, professors of molecular physiology and biophysics, titled "The R403Q Myosin Mutation Implicated in Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Causes Disorder at the Actomyosin Interface" appeared in the Nov. 12 issue of PLoS ONE, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization.

Garrison Nelson, professor of political science, gave a lecture on "Presidential Selection and the New Hampshire Primary" at the University of New Hampshire on Oct. 31. An op-ed article written by Nelson titled "Border Wars in Fight for the Presidency" appeared in the Boston Globe on Nov. 3. Nelson also gave two presentations at the Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on Nov. 17, including a roundtable discussion on "The Presidential Selection System: Is It Broken?" and a professional paper titled "Middlemen No More: Emergent Patterns in Congressional Leadership Selection." A shorter version will be published in 2008 in P.S.: Political Science and Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association.

Dennis Clougherty, professor of physics, gave an invited lecture at Harvard University's Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. The lecture, "Fluctuation-induced Quantum Reflection,” was part of an international workshop on the phenomenon of quantum reflection. Quantum reflection is a classically counterintuitive phenomenon whereby the motion of particles is reverted "against the force" acting on them. This effect is manifested in the wave nature of particles and influences collisions of ultra-cold atoms with solid surfaces, a topic of increasing importance in the emerging field of quantum information processing.

David Kerr, associate professor in the Department of Animal Science, gave a presentation entitled, "Genomic Responses of the Bovine Mammary Gland and Epithelial Cells to Acute LPS Challenge” with coauthors Melissa Latshaw, Ravi Pareek and Jun Zheng, research assistants in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and Jeffrey Bond, research associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, at the International Veterinary Immunology Symposium held in Ouro Preto, Brazil.

Awards and Honors

Three Dana Medical Library employees received 2007 University Libraries Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards. Sandra Aldrich, library support senior, received the Delmar Janes Staff Excellence Award for her exemplary work in the acquisitions and cataloging department. Angie Chapple-Sokol, library assistant professor in the reference department, received the Faculty Excellence in Educational Mission (Teaching & Advising) Award. Frances Delwiche, library assistant professor in the reference department, received an award for Faculty Excellence in Research. Marcie Crocker from Bailey/Howe Library received the second Staff Excellence Award. Awards were presented by Mara Saule, dean of libraries and learning resources.

Joel Shapiro, director of the Employee Assistance and Lifetime Wellness Programs, was elected president of the International Association of Employee Assistance Programs in Education (IAEAPE). The International Association of EAPs in Education is an autonomous, nonprofit association of employee assistance professionals working in employee assistance programs in K-12, community colleges, colleges and universities. The association serves as the forum in which knowledge, resources and experiences gained from providing EAP services in educational settings are shared.

Sarah Friend has been nominated as one of ten finalists for The Vermont Teddy Bear Company’s 7th Annual Vermont Student Citizen Award. The Annapolis, Md., native is being recognized for her volunteer work with Students Engaged in Environmental Services (SEEDS). Friend has been involved with SEEDS for five semesters promoting environmental responsibility to youth across Vermont. She teaches about environmental topics and the importance of the environment to our future. In addition to working with SEEDS, Friend is a UVM Volunteer in Action, and participates in the Alternative Spring Break Program. Created by the Vermont Teddy Bear Company in cooperation with Vermont Campus Compact, Vermont Higher Education Council and Vermont Life magazine, the award recognizes the outstanding community service contributions many Vermont college students make in the community to nonprofit groups and civic organizations.

UVM's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute has been selected as a recipient of the 2007 Governor's Healthy Aging Award in the program champion category. The awards will be presented on Nov. 20 at the Vermont Statehouse.

Nov. 7, 2007

Publications and Presentations

Tom Simone, associate professor of English, recently published his translation of Dante's Inferno with commentary for students and the general reader. The translation strives to present a clear and faithful rendering of the original Italian, and the annotations in footnotes offer succinct glossing of the major historical and cultural references that need to be understood to appreciate the poem. The edition includes a general introduction to Dante and his world, and each of the 34 cantos of the poem is prefaced by an explanatory headnote. The edition also includes diagrams of the geography of Dante's Inferno, suggested further readings and a glossary of frequently recurring terms. Simone is currently working on another edition of Dante planned to appear in 2010.

Members of the Department of Animal Science made several presentations at the recent joint meetings of the American Dairy Science Association and Animal Science Association in San Antonio, Texas. Amanda Kissell won first place in the undergraduate student original research paper competition for her presentation, “Short-interval unilateral frequent milking during early lactation of dairy cows results in acute and persistent increases in milk yield,” that she co-authored with Dr. Thomas McFadden, associate professor, and graduate student Emma Wall. Senior Shelby Purchase, working in collaboration with the Miner Research Institute in Chazy, N.Y., presented a paper titled, “An Evaluation of Family Farm Transfer in Vermont,” that she co-authored with Catherine Ballard, adjunct assistant professor, and Don Maynard, a lecturer in animal science. Several other papers were presented by graduate students including Peter Krawczel (authored three papers with Rick Grant, adjunct professor, and Russ Hovey, assistant professor); and Emma Wall (co-authored two papers with Thomas McFadden, associate professor). Presenting papers were Jeevan Patlola (with Julie Smith, extension assistant professor); Kiera Finucane (with Feng-Qi Zhao, associate professor); and Chris Hill (with Grant and Hovey). Adam Lock, assistant professor, presented or co-authored four papers with colleagues from Cornell University, University of Nottingham and Nestle. Matt Waldron, assistant professor, chaired oral and poster sessions and was judge for the Alltech Graduate Student Publication Competition.