The University of Vermont has just received its first payment from a 10-year agreement formed with Coca-Cola that was finalized last year. This agreement with Coca-Cola gives the company "near exclusive" rights to beverages that will be served and sold on campus.
College, by any standard, is an expensive enterprise. Truly, without financial aid, most of us would not be here educating ourselves. The staggering figures one is hit with looking over one's bill are not a joking matter, and so when hearing of tuition increases one is inclined to ask for justification or at least assurance that all the other colleges are doing it too.
The University of Vermont College of Education and Social Services has received a gift of $1 million to launch a major national effort that will prepare school principals, superintendents, and other K-12 educational leaders to address issues surrounding students with disabilities and those at risk of failure in school.
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that adult human stem cell transplantation results in spontaneous cell regeneration in damaged lung tissue. Published in the August 1 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the study further supports an existing body of research that suggests blood- and marrow-derived stem cells have the capacity to become many different human tissues.
We are what we eat. If one considers the digestion process, this adage is oddly factual. I am a freedom fry. Food is, in fact, one of a human's few needs, in the strictest sense of the word. In a growing world of GMO's and with more chemistry going into the food production process than culinary expertise, the subject of this year's George D, Aiken lectures was all too appropriate.