Search 7D:

All tags » university of vermont

 

It’s the nature of myths that they be retold. But when playwright Sarah Ruhl pondered the ancient Greek myth of Eurydice — a young bride who ends up in Hades on the day she’s to wed the bard Orpheus — she decided something was missing: Eurydice. More specifically, the voice of the central female character.... Read more

Three flags — touting Vermont, Uncle Sam and a school mascot, respectively — hang on a pole outside the Winooski School District. It’s a reasonable compromise: To buy — and fly — a flag for each of the 15-plus nationalities represented by the school’s diverse student body would break its budget.... Read more

Renovations at the University of Vermont’s Williams Hall this summer may have exposed students, faculty and staff to unsafe levels of lead dust, prompting a state investigation into whether the university or its contractors violated workplace safety laws.... Read more

This fall, colleges and universities that try to pass themselves off as “green” will face an inconvenient truth: It takes more than bathroom stalls stocked with recycled toilet paper, or separate waste bins for glass, paper and plastic, to earn even a passing grade on environmental sustainability. And with each new year, schools will be graded on an ever-steeper curve.... Read more

I’m an adult who never outgrew the dress-up box. But where does cutting-edge fashion come from, if not playful experiments? Hoping an actual costume closet would yield wackier finds than my thrift-store runs, I headed up the hill.... Read more

They're baaaaack!

First year UVM students arrive one week early to participate in leadership, community and wilderness TREKs led by UVM upperclassmen.

Trekkies are kept busy exploring Vermont, enriching their new community and making friends for life. There is little time left over for homesickness as students embark on their new adventures.

Music: My First Days on Junk, No Order, "Count Me In I'm Good to Go"... Read more

Every fall, when thousands of college students arrive in Burlington for the new school year, one of the nation’s tightest housing markets gets even tighter.

The greatest pressure comes from the Queen City’s largest academic institution, the University of Vermont, which this year is expecting nearly 9300 undergraduates — at least a third of whom will live off campus, according to estimates by city and university officials.... Read more

Panty raids . . . Pep rallies . . . Putting down the food in the college cafeteria.... Read more

New Fleming Museum curator Aimee Marcereau DeGalan had an auspicious introduction to the Green Mountain state. Flying in for her interview, she was seated next to Patricia Brennan, who works in development at the University of Vermont. President Dan Fogel was on the plane as well. “It was cosmic,” says DeGalan. That’s not why she got the job, but it gave her a taste of things to come.... Read more

Last summer, Lt. Col. Michael Ricci, a National Guard reservist, landed at a hospital outside Baghdad and began treating gunshot wounds and other trauma cases. It wasn’t his usual line of work. Ricci, who started his career at Fletcher Allen Health Care in 1989, is a vascular surgeon. That means he usually focuses on blood vessels, not punctured vital organs.... Read more