A new, first-of-its kind study—in the journal Nature and led by a team of UVM scientists—shows how mountain ecosystems around the globe may be threatened by climate change. Stories covering the research were published in Pacific Standard, EEN.com, the radio syndicate Public News Service, and other outlets.
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A study by Yang Bai, assistant professor in rehabilitation and movement sciences, in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine found that NFL PLAY 60 programming significantly improved both aerobic capacity and body mass index among a large percentage of the approximately 100,000 students who participated in the program between 2011 and 2015. The study, funded by the NFL and conducted in conjunction with the Cooper Institute, has received national media attention as the Super Bowl approaches, including this article in the Huffington Post.
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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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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 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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“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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