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May trustees meeting

05-21-2013

Historically Low Tuition Increase, Gen Ed Milestone, STEM Complex Headline May Board Meeting

At its May 2013 meeting, UVM’s Board of Trustees approved the lowest tuition increase in 36 years, put in place the first component of an ambitious General Education initiative, and adjusted the university’s debt limit policy to accommodate the potential construction of proposed new and renovated facilities in science, ...

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T. Alan Broughton.

05-21-2013

Professor Emeritus T. Alan Broughton Dies at Age 76

English Professor Emeritus T. Alan Broughton, 76, died May 17 at Vermont Respite House in the company of his family.

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Frederic Sansoz

05-21-2013

Strong Gold and Weird Kinks at the Nanoscale

One nanometer is about five atoms wide. That’s roughly 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. Weird stuff happens at this scale. Or, as the great physicist Richard Feynman presciently noted in 1959, “atoms on a small scale behave like nothing on a large scale.”

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David Rosowsky

05-20-2013

President Sullivan Hires RPI Engineering Dean as New Provost

University of Vermont President E. Thomas Sullivan today announced his decision to appoint David V. Rosowsky, dean of the School of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as Provost and Senior Vice President, beginning August 1, 2013.

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