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Time Travel in a Peat Bog
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Research led by the University of Vermont's Brian Beckage has chronicled tree movement over the last 40 years in the Green Mountains. In his study blocks, fir trees at lower elevations have declined, while seeds that fell above the species' historic ...

Time Travel in a Peat Bog
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By Declan McCabe. Gutter pipes full of soggy peat show up on the bench by my office each March. This means one thing: my colleague Peter Hope's Saint Michael's College students are about to experience time travel. You might reasonably ask how pipes ...

Time Travel in a Peat Bog  Bennington Banner

Time Travel in a Peat Bog  Bennington Banner

UMass pays above-average salaries to executives | News | newburyportnews.com  The Daily News of Newburyport

Childhood Emotional Abuse Tied to Adult Opioid Addiction  Medscape

Salisbury police crack down on out-of-state car owners  The Daily News of Newburyport

Professor Wins NSF Grant to Explore Groups on the Margins  The University of Vermont

Victoria Advocate
6 taken to hospital after crash
Victoria Advocate
1 Comment. Sort by. Top. Chris Koliba ·. Woodsboro High School. How many wrecks does it take at one intersection before they can shut it down? I worked close to that intersection for 7 years and saw more wrecks at that one intersection than I can count.

Several Vermont companies will attend the National Innovation Summit & Showcase Conference in Washington, DC. The list of Vermont companies in attendance at this high-profile showcase include multiple organizations that received seed funding from UVM and Vermont EPSCoR.

Presentations awardees who will be in attendance include WISER Systems, Greenscale Technologies, and Packetized Energy. Vermont companies accepted to showcase their work at the conference include ThinkMD and VitalVR. Two graduate student technology commercialization projects from UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Science faculty will also get to showcase their work: "Environmental responsive fibers for concrete" (a SPARKvt awardee) and "GPR for underground infrastructure" (a US Ignite/SmartCities and SPARKvt awardee). This many placements in the showcase places UVM in the top 10% of all universities, federal labs, government research centers, and companies submitting.

The 2017 National Innovation Summit & Showcase Conference will take place from May 15th through May 17th in Washington, DC. For more information about this conference, visit www.nationalinnovationsummit.com.

On behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Office of Education, welcome to Stimuli, a summary of college and university research administered by NASA's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or EPSCoR.

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PSF 2017 – Geo-political uncertainty and how to survive it
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"I've never seen such a tectonic shift in trade policy and trade relations between countries that will fundamentally affect industries such as apparel and footwear," says Andrew Schroth, managing partner at international trade and customs law firm ...

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Wild Bees Have An Unlikely Advocate: Hotels
Paste Magazine
“The good news about bees,” said Taylor Ricketts, a conservation ecologist at the University of Vermont, in a press release, “is now that we know where to focus conservation efforts, paired with all we know about what bees need, habitat-wise, there is ...

Help for NYC Auto Repair Shops Could Save Thousands of Jobs  Next City

Help for NYC Auto Repair Shops Could Save Thousands of Jobs  Next City

PSF 2017 – Geo-political uncertainty and how to survive it  just-style.com

Despite Trump budget, UMN sea grant directors remain optimistic
Minnesota Daily
Since the president makes budget recommendations, and Congress passes the final budget, Sea Grant officials are hoping to convince legislators to continue the program, said Breck Bowden, director of Lake Champlain Sea Grant in Vermont. The Lake ...

'Female Founders Speaker Series' features The Alchemist & Vermont Creamery
Vermont Biz
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) and Hotel Vermont are thrilled to announce that March's “Food & Beverage” event will feature Allison Hooper, co-founder of Vermont Creamery, and Jen Kimmich, co-founder of ...

School transport cuts causing 'distress and upheaval'  BBC

“Alex's Story”: A True Account From Within the Opioid Crisis  PSU The Clock