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UVM Board of Trustees Adds Three New Members
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New student trustee Soraiya Thura, selected by the Associated Directors for the Appointment of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Student Trustees, Inc., succeeds Samantha Lucas and will serve a two-year term. Alpert, who earned a ...

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the Super Tuesday big winners
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Go To. Comments. Democrat Bernie Sanders also won his home state of Vermont and Oklahoma. Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump were pressing for sweeping victories that could distance them from their party rivals and move them closer to a November presidential ...

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8 Stars Who Switched Their Endorsements in 2016 Presidential Race  TheWrap

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Ku Klux Klan controversy dominates US election campaigns ahead of Super Tuesday
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The Duke debate seeped into the Democratic contest, as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders lashed out on Twitter: "America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK." Mrs Clinton re-tweeted Mr ...

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Fears About Water Supply Grip Village That Made Teflon Products ...  The New York Times

Student missing for over a week - Pakistan - DAWN.COM  DAWN.com

'Feeling the Bern' for the long term: Bernie Sanders tattoos making a statement  The Daily News of Newburyport

Only Yesterday  Paste Magazine

Someone is tracking how much you 'vape' on Twitter  The Washington Post

Sanders To Tulsa Crowd: 'Together We Can Accomplish Anything'  News On 6

Speaking to a crowd of thousands, a Democratic presidential candidate told Tulsans, “When we stand together, we can accomplish anything.”

James Hebert: Shumlin's Medicaid 'cure' worse than the disease
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Editor's note: This commentary is by James Hebert, M.D., the president of the Vermont Medical Society who is a general surgeon at the University of Vermont Medical Center and a Mackay-Page Professor of Surgery at the University of Vermont College of ...

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11 Inspiring Bernie Sanders Quotes and Also Some from Austin ...  Paste Magazine

Congratulations to Dr. Peter D.F. Isles for the successful defense of his dissertation! The committee felt that he did an outstanding job in both his oral and written components. Peter will be a great asset to the team that he is joining in Sweden for his post doc, as well as whatever lucky university eventually lands him as an assistant professor. He will be leaving UVM after he ties together some of the manuscripts associated with his thesis, so be sure to congratulate him when you see him.

The annual LaunchVT business pitch competition was held on May 5th, 2016 at Main Street Landing in Burlington Vermont. The winner, Ogee, a skin care products company received $30,000 in cash and more than $45,000 of in-kind support.

LaunchVT's partnership with Vermont EPSCoR enabled them to offer a 2nd place prize of $15,000 in cash and $25,000 worth of in-kind support. This year's VT EPSCoR Innovation Cash Prize was presented by RACC member Donna Rizzo and was presented to Wheel Pad founder Julie Lineberger. Wheel Pad's goal is to build a socially-conscious, environmentally-friendly company that provides transitional housing for people newly using wheelchairs in a respectful and supportive manner.

The RACC High School Team from Harwood Union High School was awarded Honorable Mention for the Vermont Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence for their project titled "Baseline Stream Flow and Temperature Data for Lozelle and Dowsville Brooks and Proposed Stormwater Improvements for Harwood Union High School". Students Sydney Adams and Kyle Dash worked with their teacher Jeff Robins during the 2015-2016 academic year on RACC research and presented their project poster at the VT EPSCOR Student Research Symposium on March 29, 2016.

An awards ceremony was held on April 28, 2016 at the Vermont State House Cedar Creek Room where the students' work was celebrated with Deborah Markowitz, the Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources.

Jakob O'Neal, a 2015 summer research intern, presented his RACC research poster, titled "Potential Correlations Between Water Quality, Habitat Quality, and Macroinvertebrate Taxa", at the Landmark College Natural Science Poster Fair on April 30, 2016 in the MacFarlane Center in Putney, VT. Jakob is a sophomore at Landmark College and worked in Dr. Declan McCabe's macroinvertebrate lab at Saint Michael's College during the summer 2015 season. He plans to finish his Associates degree at Landmark College this spring and will enroll in a Bachelor's degree program starting in the fall 2016. Great work, Jakob!

Dr. Arne Bomblies has been awarded tenure at the University of Vermont. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering. Dr. Bomblies is the team leader of the VT EPSCoR RACC Watershed Processes (Q2) team. Formerly from Castle Rock, Colorado, he joined the CEMS' School of Engineering in January 2009. Congratulations Arne!

Vermont EPSCoR held a Mentoring & Teaching of Diversity workshop at the UVM Davis center on Saturday April 30th, 2016. The goals of the workshop were to enrich knowledge about diversity and cultural identities and their impacts. Strategies and approaches for developing a more just & inclusive environment were also reviewed.

Presenters:
Sherwood Smith, Senior Executive Director, Diversity, Engagement & Professional Development

Joel Shapiro, Director, Professional Development & Training

Briana Martin, TRIO/SSS Coordinator and Access and Success Coordinator for the Office of Diversity & Inclusion

Photos from the Vermont EPSCoR photo archive.

A $20 million award from the National Science Foundation to Vermont EPSCoR will help answer that question, providing much needed information to decision-makers as they govern the basin and develop policies that reach far into the future.

The award, one of the largest in Vermont history, was announced by U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy and University of Vermont president Tom Sullivan at press conference at the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain on April 18.

The five-year project will support research teams from UVM and colleges across the state that will collect data from sensors in streams, soil, and the lake and gather information on adjacent land use - by farms or developers, for instance.