The University of Vermont’s Wellness Environment was featured on the network news program, CBS This Morning, on December 12.
The story features interviews with the program’s director, James J. Hudziak, a professor of child psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, and with students in the program.
“A major university is using neuroscience to encourage kids is to tap into their books instead of kegs,” the story opens.
In UVM’s Wellness Environment, known as WE, students live in a substance-free dorm, take a required neuroscience course taught by faculty in the university’s Larner College Medicine and are given incentives to stay healthy like access to a free gym membership, nutrition and fitness coaches and an app that enables them to track their activities and moods.
WE’s enrollment has grown from 120 when the program launched in 2015 to over 1,200 today. WE’s growth means that nearly one-quarter of UVM’s undergraduate on-campus population lives in substance-free housing.
See the story on the CBS This Morning website.
Source: UVM News