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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How fast will Greenland melt in a warming world? Two first-of-their-kind studies in the journal Nature, including one led by UVM geologist Paul Bierman, attracted massive international and national press attention—including stories in Time, the BBC, and Scientific American. The studies looked many milliions of years father back into the geological record than previous techniques allowed–and came to seemingly contradictory results about how extensive the ice was in Greenland’s ancient past. However, closer examination of the results show that the two studies explored different parts of this massive island and may both be right. Other media coverage included Nature’s news service, the Chirstian Science Monitor, Popular Science, AOL, Agence France-Presse, Huffington Post, Daily Mail (UK), Japan Times, and dozens of other outlets.
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How fast will Greenland melt in a warming world? Two first-of-their-kind studies in the journal Nature, including one led by UVM geologist Paul Bierman, attracted massive international and national press attention—including stories in Time, the BBC, and Scientific American. The studies looked many milliions of years father back into the geological record than previous techniques allowed–and came to seemingly contradictory results about how extensive the ice was in Greenland’s ancient past. However, closer examination of the results show that the two studies explored different parts of this massive island and may both be right. Other media coverage included Nature’s news service, the Chirstian Science Monitor, Popular Science, AOL, Agence France-Presse, Huffington Post, Daily Mail (UK), Japan Times, and dozens of other outlets.
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“While I think that the President shapes the office to some extent, I also think the office shapes the President,” John Burke tells CNN in this arcticle about Presidend-Elect Donald Trump. Every four years, Burke, the John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science, is in high demand as the foremost expert on presidential transitions. This year is no excpetion as the author of Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice has appeared in numerous national media outlets including The Philadelphia Inquirer, Financial Times, The Hill, The Globe and Mail, New Republic and others.
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“While I think that the President shapes the office to some extent, I also think the office shapes the President,” John Burke tells CNN in this arcticle about Presidend-Elect Donald Trump. Every four years, Burke, the John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science, is in high demand as the foremost expert on presidential transitions. This year is no excpetion as the author of Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice has appeared in numerous national media outlets including The Philadelphia Inquirer, Financial Times, The Hill, The Globe and Mail, New Republic and others.
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In this opinion piece, Jon Porter, the director of the University of Vermont Health and Wellness Center, argues that legalizing cannabis directly undermines the mission of higher education to engage students deeply in their learning. Read this piece.
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In this opinion piece, Jon Porter, the director of the University of Vermont Health and Wellness Center, argues that legalizing cannabis directly undermines the mission of higher education to engage students deeply in their learning. Read this piece.
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A UVM-led study on elephant poaching attracted strong media interest in the US and around the world. The research–published in Nature Communications, and co-led by UVM economist Brendan Fisher and others from UVM’s Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, in collaboration with a team from the World Wildlife Fund, Cambridge University and other institutions–shows that the elephant poaching crisis is costing African nations about $25 million each year in lost tourist revenue and makes the case for the positive economic return from elephant conservation in many regions of the continent. The research was covered by Voice of America, Vice, Tourism+Leisure, UPI, Pacific Standard, The Guardian, Cosmos and many other outlets.
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Over 150 media around the world covered the innovative teaching approach being implemented by UVM’s Larner College of Medicine, made possible by a $66 million gift, the largest in the univerisity’s history. The New York Times, ABC News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post and Inside Higher Ed were among the media covering the gift and the new curriculum, which will eliminate all lectures, replacing them with active learning classrooms that research shows improve learning. The gift came from UVM dual-degree alum and Vermont native Robert Larner ’39, M.D.’42, and his wife, Helen. Read the story in the Washington Post.
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A new study by Lance Smith, associate professor in counseling, shows that patients seeking mental health services may be at risk of racial bias. Smith analyzed the callback rates and responses of counselors and psychologists to voicemail messages left by an actor using the name “Allison” or the name “Lakisha,” which, data shows, are names with high correlation in the U.S. to white and black individuals, respectively. Allison received responses promoting mental health services at a 12 percent higher rate than Lakisha.
The study was highlighted in a trend story in Prevention Magazine and was picked up a by the United Kingdom’s second biggest-selling daily newspaper, the Daily Mail, as well as a number of science news sites, including ScienceDaily, MedicalExpress and PsychCentral.
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