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First MERS vaccine heads for human trials
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The first vaccine candidate against Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) protects mice, camels and monkeys from the disease, paving the way for human trials later this year. The so-called DNA vaccine has been developed in a collaboration led by the ...

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Vermont's affordability crisis causing exodus of retirees
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Get the latest on government waste, fraud, and abuse - directly in your inbox. Are your 2nd amendment rights under fire? Vermont. Vermont climate scientist wants RICO prosecutions of climate change opponents. 24 Sep 2015. Photo courtesy of Alan Betts ...

The Funniest Sitcoms From MTM Enterprises  Paste Magazine

CCV student awarded EPSCoR scholarship to pursue education in STEM field
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The program, run by the VT EPSCoR Center for Workforce Development and Diversity at Saint Michael's College (CWDD), helps encourage Vermont students from different backgrounds to pursue education and career training in STEM fields. The scholarship ...

Willis Announces Support for Inclusion@Lloyd's Diversity Festival
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Dive In events will be hosted at venues across EC3 from 29 September - 2 October 2015, with speakers including John Barnes, Lord John Browne, Jane Hill, Marcus Trescothick, Angie Peacock and Gok Wan. On Tuesday 29th of September, Willis will host an ...

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A spatially comprehensive, hydrometeorological data set for Mexico, the U.S., and Southern Canada 1950–2013  Nature.com

The human cost of Africa's science strategy
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Three years ago yesterday, 34 miners were shot dead by South African police during a strike for better wages and living standards at a mine owned by British multinational Lonmin. The Marikana massacre, the most violent use of state force in post ...

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RACC Post Doc Yayaong Xu has accepted a tenured faculty position with the Chinese National Academy of Sciences in Xiamen, China. The position is under the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the Institute of the Urban Environment. This prestigious position will provide Yaoyang with startup, his own laboratory (tentatively titled the Urban Aquatic Sciences and Watershed Ecology Laboratory) and 3 fully funded research associates to continue his water quality research in China.

RACC PhD Student Peter Isles was awarded a GLEON travel grant, which will fully fund his travel and accommodations for participation in GLEON’s annual meeting in Chuncheon, South Korea.

Montpelier, VT - On August 5, CCV student Tiffany Martin was one of seven Vermont college students to receive an EPSCoR Native American and First Generation College Student Scholarship for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) at the Vermont State House in Montpelier.

On August 11th, eighteen NEWRnet interns returned to Vermont for the NEWRnet Undergraduate Research Symposium. NEWRnet interns spent the past 10 weeks studying topics related to water quality and agent based modeling in three EPSCoR states: Delaware, Vermont, and Rhode Island. Interns presented their summer research in two formats: the 2-minute talk served as an introduction to their research, and the research poster allowed for more time to learn about individual projects, methods, and findings.

Department of Environmental Conservation and UVM's Lake Champlain Sea Grant ...
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Kari Dolan, manager of DEC's Ecosystem Restoration Program, adds “We are truly excited about this collaboration. The Shumlin Administration has been promoting clean water innovations for some time now because they can make a difference.

Department of Environmental Conservation and UVM's Lake Champlain Sea Grant ...
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Dr. Breck Bowden, Director of the Lake Champlain Sea Grant program, notes that research and extension on Green Stormwater Infrastructure has been a focus of LCSG for several years. “The LCSG program has invested significant resources in research and ...

Contactors shift work focus
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Contractors pursuing new infrastructure projects are continuing to diversify across industry sectors and geographies in response to continued weakness in mining-related work. Opportunities in the mining sector have not dried up completely, but the ...

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Elite prep school's alleged sordid tradition exposed in rape case
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Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vermont, talked openly about the tradition when he was interviewed by Concord police. On a campus where upperclassmen studiously avoid their younger peers in most settings, Labrie told a detective some students “take great pride ...

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Caring for our common home
Rutland Herald
This year continues to be the warmest on record. Wildfires have been burning on the West Coast after a warm dry winter and years of drought in California. Here in Vermont, my garden has dried out after a wet spring, and it was a bumper year for ...

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Caring for our common home
Rutland Herald
This year continues to be the warmest on record. Wildfires have been burning on the West Coast after a warm dry winter and years of drought in California. Here in Vermont, my garden has dried out after a wet spring, and it was a bumper year for ...

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Caring for our common home
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
This year continues to be the warmest on record. Wildfires have been burning on the West Coast after a warm dry winter and years of drought in California. Here in Vermont, my garden has dried out after a wet spring, and it was a bumper year for ...

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UN unveils SDG indicators for dissection
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Climate policy needs a new vision. Policies that split mitigation and adaptation don't work. It's time for a shift, say Asim Zia and Caitlin Waddick. Feature: 14/10/15. Getting local voices to global talks on climate change. Why are the people global ...

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Many Long Walks in Prospect Park, on Duty, Then a Kiss (Published ...  The New York Times