University of Vermont News

The Clean Energy Finance Summit says it's making progress towards more affordable energy.

The temperature was cool and dark clouds loomed overhead Sunday morning as members of the Chhetri family prepared their large vegetable fields for planting not far from Burlington's Ethan Allen Homestead.

A power failure cut electricity to 443 customers in parts of Burlington early Sunday afternoon, and the Burlington Electric Department is still trying to figure out what went wrong.

In the year 197 B.C., the city of Athens dispatched a troupe of men and boys to the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi.

Making small lifestyle changes could reduce your risk of having a stroke, according to a new study in the American Heart Association journal Stroke .

The move would encourage departments to explore possible new revenue opportunities -- and allow them to keep a piece of what they bring in.

Jack Qualey III of Hilton Head Island received the James G. Hollandsworth Mountaineering Award, the highest honor given in Asheville School's mountaineering program.

A new dean has been named for the University of Vermont's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences.

To what extent do stories we read and watch for fun have an impact on our political views and thinking? A new book by a political science professor at the University of Vermont, based on a national survey of college students, suggests that the influence of the Harry Potter series on the Millennial Generation may extend far beyond the fantasy world ... (more)

A proposed set of real estate transactions that would have the Burlington School District purchase the St. Joseph School and the University of Vermont take over two district buildings has been announced by the distict and UVM.

By all outward appearances, Burlington's public parks are clean and green - the envy of any small city in America.

Out of the billions of petroleum-based plastic water bottles purchased each year, only 29 percent are recycled in the United States, according to Mohawk Trail Regional School sophomore Caitlyn Wilkins of Heath.

Global atmospheric studies often don't consider carbon in deep soil because it is thought to be stable and unaffected by timber harvesting.

But as the cost of a college education steadily rises, some experts say the data suggest virtual campuses are likely to grow - largely because they need to.

UVM SENIOR TREKS BACK INTO HER ARMENIAN PAST BurlingtonFreePress.com June 10 2013 Written by Chris Bohjalian & Idyll Banter Just how small is this world really? Sarah Aghjayan, 21, has been going to the University of Vermont since the autumn of 2010 and will begin her senior year there this September.

The University of Vermont will play host to its second annual Food Systems Summit Public Conference on June 27 on its way to establishing a "landmark" event to help share broad perspectives on building a sustainable food system, said Cynthia Belliveau, dean of continuing education and a faculty member in the department of nutrition and food ... (more)

Annual revenue of the University of Vermont is expected to drop next year, owing largely to a lower-than-expected enrollment and to an increase in the projected amount of financial aid for the students who do show up.

That's a social stigma that somehow even extends to the medical research community, which largely has overlooked this neurological disease for years - to the public detriment.

At their graduation ceremony on Sunday, valedictorian Alexandra Keator recalled taking another leap of faith when she launched herself from a tall height holding onto just a rope at an aerial adventure park her freshman year.

Let me say it, by the way - who cares, right? I mean who cares about my feelings or Carmen Reinhart's feelings or Ken Rogoff's feelings? We're having a global economic crisis which is not over, which we have handled abysmally.