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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to address fundamental questions about the brain and develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems.

The cooperative agreements are through NSF's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) as part of its Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-2 investment strategy. RII Track-2 builds national research strength by initiating collaborations across institutions in two or more EPSCoR jurisdictions. These four-year awards support 27 institutions in 18 eligible jurisdictions.

"These awards represent a tremendous value for the scientific community, as they foster research into some of the most pressing issues facing U.S. society while simultaneously supporting collaborative research programs and workforce development," said Denise Barnes, head of NSF EPSCoR. "Whether by expanding our knowledge of the brain, or by improving how our water, food and energy systems work efficiently together, these projects hold the promise of transforming our daily lives."

The RII Track-2 awards support research while also requiring award recipients to invest in developing a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce -- particularly of early-career faculty researchers.

Washington Post
Bees were just added to the US endangered-species list for the first time
Washington Post
“There's more than just economic reasons to protect nature and the species in it,” Taylor Ricketts, a co-author of the paper and director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont, told The Post last June. Wild bees ...

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Caledonian Record
Daniel Cliché Receives STEM Scholarship
Caledonian Record
Daniel Cliché, of Gilman, was recently chosen to receive a First-Generation Scholarship from the VT EPSCoR Center for Workforce Development and Diversity (CWDD) at Saint Michael's College. Cliché is a recent graduate of Lyndon Institute and is pursuing ...

Valley News
New England Drought Has Sent Nature Underground
Valley News
According to Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, a University of Vermont professor and state climatologist, persistence is the difference between drought and other weather conditions. “Even if we got 5 inches of rain, it wouldn't take us out of drought ...

BurlingtonFreePress.com
There are signs of 'drought stress' in Vermont
BurlingtonFreePress.com
According to Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, a University of Vermont professor and state climatologist, persistence is the difference between drought and other weather conditions. “Even if we got five inches of rain, it wouldn't take us out of drought ...

Review: BEFORE AFTER Studio Cast Recording  BroadwayWorld

David Budbill, a Poet of Small-Town Vermont, Dies at 76 (Published ...  The New York Times

New Victory Opens 2016-17 Season with TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA Today  Broadway World

Astonishing sea creatures! Colossal battleships! Uncharted undersea worlds! Get swept away by this wildly inventive reimagining of a classic tale.

The Outside Story: Dry run
Bennington Banner (subscription)
According to Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, a University of Vermont professor and state climatologist, persistence is the difference between drought and other weather conditions. "Even if we got five inches of rain, it wouldn't take us out of drought ...

Backcountry
Expect the Unexpected: Climatologist Alan Betts explains how climate variability will affect winters across the world
Backcountry
In the October issue of Backcountry Magazine, atmospheric scientist Alan Betts talks about the implications of climate change on wintertime precipitation in Japan. And while the status of Japan's snow is important, it's part of a larger global-climate ...

U.S. Just Made It a Lot Less Difficult to Sue Nursing Homes ...  The New York Times

US legal appeal win good news for CS Wind  Viet Nam News

Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insiders ...  The New York Times

US legal appeal win good news for CS Wind  Viet Nam News

The 42nd Annual VADA Show
Maine Antique Digest
Mike Winslow of West Rutland, Vermont, said he had coveted this table for years. It had been in the New Hampshire home of antiques dealers Joann and Fred Cadarette for at least 40 of them. Joann died in 2012, and Fred has moved from the home. So here ...

In Willsboro Bay, about nine miles out from Burlington Harbor,
Tori Pinheiro hangs over the gunwale of the UVM research
vessel Melosira and stares down into black water. Like the huge
gray eye of a sea monster, a round concrete weight appears out of
the depths. The steel cable from the boat's trawling winch keeps
turning and the hundred-pound weight emerges into morning
sunshine, dripping. From its underbelly, another line still dangles
into the water. Pinheiro, a research technician, hauls the line, and
pulls onto the deck a slimy-looking black canister the size of a large
water bottle. "This is it," she says, as she turns to a laptop computer
sitting on a fish-dissecting table in the middle of the deck, "one of
our twenty-seven receivers. There's months of data in there."

Viet Nam News
US legal appeal win good news for CS Wind
Viet Nam News
... Washington D.C. We also assisted DOC during the on-site verifications in South Korea and Vietnam, where the GDLSK team led by veteran Hong Kong based Partner, Andrew Schroth, successfully verified all of the written responses with CS Wind's records ...

Vermont delegation clashes with nuclear industry
vtdigger.org
... housing trust partner to convert motel to housing · Breck Bowden: Seeking certainty about an uncertain future for Lake Champlain · Call for new dairy model in Vermont sparks debate · Vermont Gas gets go-ahead for pipeline construction through ...

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Trump Sniffles at the Debate, and the Internet Plays Doctor ...  The New York Times