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Wynton Marsalis

05-19-2013

Class of 2013 Celebrates Graduation

Heralding the passage of a college graduation, it’s a happy circumstance to have one of the world’s foremost trumpeters in the house. A crowd of approximately 10,000 gathered on the UVM Green the morning of May 19 to celebrate the achievements of more than 3,000 UVM students receiving diplomas and passing from the ranks of ...

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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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