BURLINGTON, Vermont, July 20 (TNSper) -- Champlain College issued the following news: Champlain College has appointed Dr. Craig Winstead as the new Dean of our Robert P. Stiller School of Business. Dr. Winstead comes to Champlain with over two decades of experience in business management and education in corporate and academic settings. As Dean, he will support the College's career-focused curriculum and innovative growth through expanded industry partnerships, an increased focus on diversity,   more

ALBANY, New York, July 20 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on July 19, 2023: Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that New York State will aid the State of Vermont in recovery efforts following historic floods that occurred between July 7 and July 12. New York has deployed nine engineers from the New York Power Authority and the Department of Environmental Conservation to Montpelier, Vermont to assist in performing dam safety evaluations throughout the state.  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, July 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: From the galactic scale of the cosmos in the night sky to the orbits and rotations of the planets in our solar system, from the machines that influence our lives daily to the cells in our brain that enable us to perceive the world: it's mathematics all the way down. In the beginning of his education, Tobias Timofeyev -- a doctoral student in UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences -- wa  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, July 21 (TNSjou) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news on July 20, 2023: A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape--perhaps covered by trees and roaming woolly mammoths--in the recent geologic past, new UVM-led research shows. This indicates that the ice sheet on Greenland may be more sensitive to human-caused climate change than previously understood--and will be vulnerable to irreversible, rapid melting in coming centuries. * * * Gre  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, July 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news on July 21, 2023: For millions, if not billions, of years, life found a way. Through evolution, natural selection, and cosmic random chance, as some theories purport, simple organic compounds morphed into single-celled organisms which morphed into multi-cellular life, and so on into the sprawling world in which we (and plants, and animals, and bacteria, and viruses) live today. But Piper Welch -- a PhD  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, July 19 (TNSjou) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: Your body is home to a unique collection of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live in and on you, known as your microbiome. When everything is in balance, you feel good. But when your microbiome is off, you can get sick. The same applies to the rest of the animal kingdom--including sea stars. When their microbiome is out of whack, they can become vulnerable to infections like the mysterious sea star wa  more