Music education students at the University of Vermont learn to teach composition -- a national standard that leaves many K-12 music teachers flummoxed -- by composing themselves.
Middle East experts from the University of Vermont and a student who was in Cairo at the start of the uprising comment on the current crisis in Egypt.
Early childhood educators have been scrambling to adapt to the expanding needs of refugee children by creating communication methods for the 2.6 million immigrants who have moved to Refugee Resettlement Programs in the U.S. since 1975.
In a first-of-its-kind experiment, a University of Vermont scientist created robots that, like tadpoles becoming frogs, change their body forms while learning how to walk. These evolving robots learned to walk more rapidly than robots with fixed bodies and developed a more robust gait.
In his new book, Going Abroad: Traveling Like an Anthropologist, University of Vermont professor Robert Gordon traverses disquieting ground, from his unflinching aim "to unsettle the often overbearingly brash self-confidence that sometimes goes with the notion of achieving 'global citizenship'" to offering brass tacks commentary on sex with locals and bathroom matters where there is, well, no bathroom.
Study shows why terrorists would have a hard time bringing down the US electric grid.
Whale feces float--and strongly enhance productivity of fisheries, scientists at the University of Vermont and Harvard have found, reversing the assumption that whales accelerate loss of nutrients to the bottom. This nitrogen input in the Gulf of Maine is more than the input of all rivers combined, 23,000 metric tons annually.
University of Vermont professor Patricia Riley is playing a key role in a plan to help China's Ministry of Education overhaul primary and secondary education in the country. Lessons she scripted and modeled are showing rural teachers in the country that there’s more to music than singing songs.
This fall, the University of Maine and the University of Vermont are offering students a research-based online weight management course for credit, the first in the country.
In this audio slideshow, a University of Vermont professor brings her award-winning book to life, examining America's fascination with the First Lady from a scholar's perspective.
As the crisis continues, University of Vermont experts examine the fallout -- social, political, financial and environmental.
University of Vermont political scientist and expert on Kyrgyzstan is available for interview about the ethnic violence there and new reports that the Kyrgyz army may be involved.
Middle East expert and political science professor available to discuss Saudi religious police probe of youths participating in MTV reality show.
Coronary heart disease costs the health care system more than $475 billion annually. Cardiac rehabilitation programs, which teach heart attack and bypass patients how to make lifestyle changes including exercise and diet, yield measurable outcomes at a low cost, but lack appeal of flashy stents.
As the population of people with chronic conditions and health care costs rise, so do opportunities for implementing health prevention strategies. A critical strategy for reforming the health care system lies in teaching medical students about prevention and public health.
Biodiversity loss can increase infectious diseases in humans, University of Vermont, EPA, and other scientists show in a first-of-its-kind global study.
While usually a happy time for most, the holidays can be stressful and confusing for some children, especially those with a deployed parent or who have lost a family member.
Would the world be better if people consumed less? In his new book, Treasures of the Earth, University of Vermont professor Saleem Ali says no. He argues that disavowing consumption of oil, gems, precious metals, and minerals won’t help in planning for a resource-scarce future.
In the first published research study of the long-term effects of different treatments for seasonal affective disorder, cognitive behavior therapy proved significantly more effective than light therapy in decreasing depression the following winter.
Stuart Kauffman, one of the world’s most eminent scientists – a founder of the field of complex systems science, pioneer of biocomplexity research, and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow – will join the faculty of the University of Vermont in January.
Cardiac rehabilitation specialist and "Eating Well for a Healthy Heart Cookbook" author Philip Ades, M.D., offers tips for healthy eating and a healthy heart.
An innovative new spout developed by the University of Vermont for the maple industry will increase production by up to 90 percent, by preventing a tree's tap hole from becoming contaminated with bacteria. It will also mitigate the effects of global warming, which is shortening the sugaring season.
Vermont scientists created a mechanism to measure happiness of millions of bloggers. Their "hedonometer" gathers sentences beginning "I feel..." Then, applying standardized "psychological valence" of words, each sentence receives a happiness score. The happiest day in four years: Election Day 2008. Michael Jackson's death: one of the unhappiest.
Understanding stigma as it relates to coping strategies and sexual risk-taking among people with HIV/AIDS living in rural communities drives the work of UVM psychology professors, recently awarded a $3.2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Using EEG, ultrasound to examine blood flow velocity and questionnaires, researchers found physiological evidence of the likely mechanism underlying the common "caffeine withdrawal headache," as well as a surprise finding.
A new book, Islam and Education, is the first empirical study of religious schools in Pakistan.
The PHAT (Protect Your Head at All Times and Protect Your Head on All Terrain) program, launched in 2002 by the Vermont Snowsports Research Team, has made over 50,000 observations of skiers and snowboarders in order to understand how best to promote ski helmet use and improve safety. The campaign is being featured at 11 Vermont resorts this season.
Two University of Vermont research groups are asking: why do leaves go red? The ecology and mechanisms are still unknown. The question has economic urgency since climate change may make New England's bright leaf season go dull, drying up the flow of tourists and their wallets.
Voting"”we think"”is a national, constitution-based right. But that's not how it's exercised. According to political scientist Alec Ewald, author of the forthcoming The Way We Vote: The Local Dimension of American Suffrage, the Constitution means what your county elections board says it does. In such a heterogeneous system can elections be fair?
The average American might be surprised to learn that people in China feel fairly free to express their political opinions and, what's more, many are not satisfied with specific civil and political rights. But these are among the surprising conclusions a University of Vermont political scientist has drawn from a research project he recently presented at three Asian universities.
Just back from a research trip in Europe with a grant from the World Anti-Doping Agency, anthropologist and cycling culture expert says the media and public unfairly focus on doping as an individual failure of morality. But riders are the product of an entrenched institutional culture with politics and economics at its core. Expert available for comment as the Tour de France ousts third cyclist from race.
Using the NIH-funded science behind 16 years of ongoing academic weight loss research, professor Jean Harvey-Berino has won the 2008 James Beard Foundation award for a book in the "Healthy Focus" category. The EatingWell Diet by Jean Harvey-Berino with Joyce Hendley and the editors of EatingWell combines the magazine's recipes with Harvey-Berino's behavioral modification program, what she calls "the one true way to lose weight."
In her new book, University of Vermont food anthropologist makes a new argument for an old idea: food that tastes of its unique locale and the hand and soul of farmer, cheese maker, baker, chef"¦
Is the idea that the freshman year of college--newly away from home and susceptible to the all-you-can-eat buffet--may be an especially vulnerable time for weight gain merely a myth? No, says assistant psychology professor and eating disorder specialist Jill Holm-Denoma, but the reasons may be counterintuitive.
The University of Vermont will offer grants and scholarships covering all tuition and fees to Vermont undergraduates eligible for Federal Pell Grants, beginning with the 2008 entering fall class.
A new study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that children who drink flavored or plain milk consume more nutrients and have a lower or comparable body mass index (BMI "“ a measure of body fatness) than children who don't drink milk
Research published in the American Sociological Review debunks the myth that people grow more conservative, in their attitudes and their political beliefs, as they age. The research is the first to show that people 60 and over become more liberal faster as they age than does a younger cohort.
A disturbing new study, notable during this Eating Disorder Awareness Week, challenges assumptions that the high suicide rate among anorexics can be explained by compromised physical health that leads to death from the slightest attempt. Research to be published in the Journal of Affective Disorders shows that anorexics who are suicidal use highly lethal methods suggesting an overwhelming wish to die.
Focus the Nation, January 31, 2008, promises to be the largest "teach-in" in US history. So far, it has mobilized students at 1400 colleges to plan classes on global warming. Students at the University of Vermont have developed one of the country's most ambitious agendas for the event, expanding beyond the one-day national teach-in to include dozens of events over six days.
Drs. Mary Cushman and Matthew Watkins are established leaders in the field of cardiovascular research. Their efforts have uncovered new information about women's cardiovascular risk and potential new therapies for angina in women.
International peace parks can work as a tool of diplomacy in war zones around the world, concludes Peace Parks, edited by University of Vermont professor Saleem Ali, and praised by Harvard biologist EO Wilson. The book will be released at the Parks, Peace and Partnerships Conference at Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. These parks have defused conflict between Ecuador and Peru and hold promise for building trust between Iran and Iraq and elsewhere, Ali's research and book conclude. By sharing management of ecologically significant borderlands, conflict resolution and conservation goals have been achieved when other efforts failed.
There's serious research"”and some startling findings"”behind today's celebrity-promoted launch of the "Think About Your Drink" campaign. Nutrition expert Rachel Johnson, who was instrumental in developing the report, is available today for interview to talk about why what you drink is as crucial as what you eat.
According to a qualitative review of 19 studies on smoking reduction in individuals who did not want to quit, this method, typically coupled with the use of nicotine replacement products, led to an increase in quitting in 16 of the studies.
With basketball season upon us, it is imperative that high school and college coaches and athletes understand the differences in risk factors for first-time ankle ligament injuries in men and women.
A 1999 report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission revealed that 7,700 head injuries could be prevented annually if skiers and snowboarders wore helmets. In 2002, the Vermont Snow Sports Research Team initiated a program that has increased voluntary ski helmet use among children a whopping 20 percent.
In a bird flu pandemic, prioritizing the elderly, infants and infirm for scarce vaccine supplies may not be smart, argue two bioethicists in a new paper appearing in the journal Science. Accounting for life expectancy and an individual's investment in the future might just move healthy college students toward the front of the line.
UVM Dean of Nutrition and Food Sciences Rachel Johnson, whose academic research focuses on the effects of sugary drinks on children's health, applauds the recent decision by the nation's largest beverage distributors to stop the sale of most soft drinks in schools.
Research at the University of Vermont mapping the lives of couples with civil unions finds few demographic differences between homosexual and heterosexual couples.
When a serious scholar of the classics tries his hand at writing for children, he brings Socrates to life in all his exuberant glory--and might just get kids asking questions of their own.
Even though the United States does not participate in the Kyoto protocol, one-quarter to one-third of the population lives in states, counties or cities that have adopted climate change policies similar to those of the global initiative.
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