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Book critic Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air” rounds up her 10 favorite books of the year, including “Black Is the Body” by UVM professor of English and critical race and ethnic studies Emily Bernard.  

“In this outstanding essay collection, Emily Bernard writes with depth, poetic intensity and humor about growing up in the South and living and teaching in the snow globe state of Vermont. Bernard’s autobiographical writing about race never hews to safe or expected paths,” writes Corrigan.

Revisit Corrigan’s full review of Bernard’s book upon its release.

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The Boston Globe highlighted a remarkable exhibit at UVM’s Fleming Museum: RESIST! INSIST! PERSIST! The Globe noted that this “show about activism in art that stretches from Francisco Goya to Kara Walker…feels in tune with the times, where everything is political and no one has the luxury of sitting it out.”

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A first of its kind study in PLOS One by Samantha Alger, a research affiliate in the Plant & Soil Sciences Department, showed that viruses may be spilling over from commercial honeybee colonies into wild bumblebee populations, with the potential for significant harmful consequences to crop pollination. Read the PBS NewsHour story.

The research was also covered by Earth.com, Grist, and Inverse, among others.

 

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A UVM study, led by Ryan McGinnis, a bioengineer in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Science, and Ellen McGinnis a clinical psychologist in the Larner College of Medicine, shows that a machine learning algorithm can detect signs of anxiety and depression in the speech patterns of young children, potentially providing a fast and easy way of diagnosing conditions that are difficult to spot and often overlooked in young people. Read the story in The Week.

The study was also covered in the New York Post, the New Reddit Journal of Science, Psychology Today, and Fox News.

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The cost of cutting carbon emissions — enough to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement — would be offset by reductions in health problems and deaths caused by air pollution, researchers led by Mark Budolfson, a fellow at UVM’s Gund Institute for Environment, found. Read the U.S. News and World Report story.

The research was also covered by Health Day and Earth.com.

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Jim Hudziak was interviewed on the popular national radio program, The Sporting Life on ESPN, about a study he co-authored that showed participation in team sports can reduce the risk of depression in 10-year-old boys.

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An essay about measles–syndicated for “The Conversation” and  written by Eyal Amiel, assistant professor of Biomedicine and Health Sciences at UVM–was carried CBS News and Fast Company.

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UVM biology professor Laura Collado was part of a team that captured and analyzed a surprisingly diverse collections sounds made by the elusive Araguaian river dolphin of Brazil. The research, which included rare underwater video of dolphins, was published in the open access journal PeerJ and drew wide media coverage including from Newsweek, Smithsonian, Fox News, New York Post, UPI, and MSN. Scientific American produced this podcast.

 

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A provocative essay by Anthony “Jack” Gierzynski, chair of UVM Political Science Department, grabbed the attention of “Game of Thrones” fans ahead of the long-awaited premiere of the show’s final season. Gierzynski’s essay, which made the case for an unhappy ending to the hit show “because, sadly, unhappy endings mimic reality,” appeared on Salon, Quartzy, The Hill, The Week, and Business Standard, among other media outlets. The essay first appeared in The Conversation.

A May 27 article in Foreign Affairs about what real-world lessons “Game of Thrones” offers foreign-policy makers and foreign-policy analysts also referenced Gierzynski’s research with students about the politics depicted in the show.

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Conservation biologist, Gund Institute fellow and ‘editor ’n’ chef’ of Eat the Invaders Joe Roman makes the case to expand our palates (and the menu) to include invasive species. Roman advocates to consume these harmful creatures as way to control their spread. “They taste good, they’re pretty easy to sell, and now most people have heard of it’ through derbies and other outreach efforts,” he tells the Christian Science Monitor in an article about eating the invasive lionfish.

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