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The ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Department of Theatre opens its 2010-2011 Season with the award-winning comedy <em>Cloud 9</em> by British playwright Caryl Churchill running Sept. 30 - Oct. 10 at the Royall Tyler Theatre.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/johnhughes_430x300.jpg" height="300" width="430" />During his three-year tenure as provost and senior vice president at ¶¶Òõ̽̽, John Hughes was never quite able to give up his passion for mineralogy. Long work days as an administrator were often followed by nights of studying the chemistry, crystal structure and physical properties of minerals. The dual academic and administrative careers of the professor of geology have resulted in a unique distinction: the only college provost in the world to have a mineral named in his honor.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/imf_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Pretend for a minute that you've hypothesized a new mathematical model for cell growth in plants. All you need to prove it is a multi-sided, 16-and-a-half inch tall chamber of thick glass panels, stainless steel and acrylic, with a pressurized cylinder on top for exchanging gasses. Not exactly an off-the-shelf item.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/kwprogram_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />The memory of ¶¶Òõ̽̽'s annual Kake Walk event lives on today, 41 years after its termination. By some memories, it was a much-loved winter tradition that brought the student body together in celebration every February; in others, it was racist performance with roots in blackface minstrel shows. Now, a collection in the library's Center for Digital Initiatives gives shape to those memories by presenting original materials archived during the tradition's 80-year life span.

"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself," concludes Elizabeth Kolbert's slim volume, <em>Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change</em>, "but that is what we are now in the process of doing."

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/arsenault_430x300.jpg" height="300" width="430" />Seniors Michelle Borsavage and Eliza Arsenault didn't mind altering their summer plans when Matthias Brewer, assistant professor of chemistry, asked them if they'd be interested in developing a multimedia program on "Green Chemistry" to present to the 500-plus daily visitors at the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center.