In a front page story, the Boston Globe gave feature treatment to the creative, groundbreaking teaching approach UVM is implementing in its medical school, the Robert M. Larner College of Medicine. The medical school is at the forefront of a national trend to eliminate lectures from the curriculum, replacing them with active learning classes that help students learn material more deeply and retain it. Read this story.
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The New York Times published a story on research conducted by faculty in UVM’s Larner College of Medicine showing the eating chili peppers can prolong life. Read the story. Stories also appeared in many other media, including CBSNews.com and the New York Daily News.
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The New York Times published a story on research conducted by faculty in UVM’s Larner College of Medicine showing the eating chili peppers can prolong life. Read the story. Stories also appeared in many other media, including CBSNews.com and the New York Daily News.
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UVM Grossman School of Business dean Sanjay Sharma transformed Canada’s largest English-language business school, at Concordia University in Montreal, into an internationally ranked program when he served as dean there. He’s well into a similar transformation at UVM’s Grossman School. In five years he has raised $35 million; increased undergraduate enrollment from 700 to nearly 1000 while reducing the admit rate by 20 percentage points; and raised job placement of undergrads from 45 to 95 percent within a year of graduation. Read this story.
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UVM Grossman School of Business dean Sanjay Sharma transformed Canada’s largest English-language business school, at Concordia University in Montreal, into an internationally ranked program when he served as dean there. He’s well into a similar transformation at UVM’s Grossman School. In five years he has raised $35 million; increased undergraduate enrollment from 700 to nearly 1000 while reducing the admit rate by 20 percentage points; and raised job placement of undergrads from 45 to 95 percent within a year of graduation. Read this story.
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In a front page story in the Boston Globe, UVM researchers describe how they have successfully grown saffron, the world’s most expensive spice, in an experimental greenhouse/research station in northern Vermont. The researchers achieved a higher yield than saffron grown in Iran, where 90 percent of the world’s supply originates. Fetching $19 a gram and $100,000 of estimated revenue per acre, the spice could be a significant source of revenue for Vermont farmers. A story was also broadcast on Public Radio International’s The World and appeared on the BBC’s website. Read the Boston Globe story. Stories on UVM’s saffron research also appeared on Public Radio International’s The World, Inside Science, PRI’s Science Friday, and the national wire of Associated Press.
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In a front page story in the Boston Globe, UVM researchers describe how they have successfully grown saffron, the world’s most expensive spice, in an experimental greenhouse/research station in northern Vermont. The researchers achieved a higher yield than saffron grown in Iran, where 90 percent of the world’s supply originates. Fetching $19 a gram and $100,000 of estimated revenue per acre, the spice could be a significant source of revenue for Vermont farmers. A story was also broadcast on Public Radio International’s The World and appeared on the BBC’s website. Read the Boston Globe story. Stories on UVM’s saffron research also appeared on Public Radio International’s The World, Inside Science, PRI’s Science Friday, and the national wire of Associated Press.
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In a new study, UVM researchers update the widely debunked truism that students gain 15 pounds – the “freshman 15” – during their first year of college. Students gain an average of about 10 pounds over all four years, the researchers found. Twenty-three percent of the students in the study were overweight or obese as they were starting college. By the end of senior year, 41 percent were in that category, a 78 percent increase. Read the Time story.
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