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Spanish is the happiest language in the world, new study reveals  ZME Science

Spanish Is The Happiest Language, Chinese The Most Balanced, New Study Reveals  ScienceAlert

Spanish Is The Happiest Language, Chinese The Most Balanced, New Study Reveals  ScienceAlert

Las palabras alegres ganan a las tristes | Ciencia  EL PAÍS USA

Todas las lenguas tienden a usar las palabras felices sobre las tristes  Europa Press

Todas las lenguas tienden a usar las palabras felices sobre las tristes  La Vanguardia

Las palabras alegres ganan a las tristes  EL PAÍS USA

The Green party’s education policies: you ask the questions  The Guardian

BWW TV: Watch Two Scenes from FIRST DATE's Chicago Premiere at the Royal George  Broadway World

F-bombs notwithstanding, all languages skew toward happiness  EurekAlert

F-bombs notwithstanding, all languages skew toward happiness  EurekAlert

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Report: East Valley Black arrests higher than Ferguson
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Jack Glaser, a University of California-Berkeley public-policy professor who wrote "Suspect Race: Causes and Consequences of Racial Profiling," said he believes the disparity in police department arrests is often tied to unconscious stereotyping, not a ...

Youth hockey brain imaging study suggests early marker for ...  EurekAlert

Photo Flash: THE WHIPPING MAN Celebrates Opening at Pasadena Playhouse  Broadway World

The Pasadena Playhouse presents, in association with South Coat Repertory, Matthew Lopez's multi-award winning play THE WHIPPING MAN as the fourth ...

Catherine Collins was recently named Vermont EPSCoR Diversity in Entrepreneurship Fellow at the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET). Catherine will be responsible for developing and sustaining a diverse community of entrepreneurs throughout Vermont. She will focus on skills development, mentorship and networks required to help start, fund, scale and sustain new technology based business ventures. Specific focus areas are developing capacity building and outreach programs to increase participation and exposure to entrepreneurship from students and alumni of Vermont Colleges and Universities, develop a greater representation of women and minority entrepreneurs and stimulate entrepreneurship capacity and activity across Vermont, including rural areas.

The RACC high school team from University Gardens School in San Juan, Puerto Rico is investigating nutrient impacts on algal growth. During the summer and fall of 2014, the RACC high school team created a partnership with the San Juan Botanical Gardens where the experiment is housed. Teacher Nelson Ruiz and his students Anthony Hernandez Vazquez and Radames Revilla conducted a series of trials to learn how various sources of nutrients impact algae. They have been monitoring the temperature, pH, nutrient levels, as well as algal response in a controlled setting. The team will present their data at the 2015 Vermont EPSCoR Student Research Symposium on March 30th.

The RACC high school team from Aurea E Quiles High School in Guanica, Puerto Rico is investigating macroinvertebrate recolonization following forest fires and prescribed burns in the dry forest of Guanica, PR. Teacher Glenda Almodovar-Morales and her students Grecia Izquierdo and Jose Izquierdo set a series of traps to collect dry-forest macroinvertebrates. They have been identifying the macronivertebrates using equipment at the aquatic ecology lab at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. The team will present their data at the 2015 Vermont EPSCoR Student Research Symposium on March 30th.

Testimony before the House Committee on Agriculture and Forest Products
February 11, 2015

The Arctic may seem like a barren territory at the top of the world, but it is alive with debate over the environment, energy, and the rights of indigenous people. And now, several scholars from Vermont have contributed to a new book that lays out some of the key questions facing that territory north of the 66th parallel.

Alan Alda spoke at UVM last week to address a subject about which he is quite passionate: teaching scientists to communicate their findings with the general public. His speech came at a time when the Center for Communicating Science that bears his name at Stony Brook University was announcing a working relationship with UVM.