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Viewpoint: Gulf Coast Oil Spill

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<p><img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/bpoilspill_300x212.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="212" />As oil continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico, it's clear the long-term effects of this disaster will be far-reaching. Here, three ¶¶Òõ̽̽ faculty and a post-doctoral researcher address the issue from their respective fields: ecological economics, finance, political science and sociology.</p>

The Beetles Fan Club

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/rossbell_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Those who labor in the earth are, well, mostly beetles. OK, this may be an exaggeration, but it is true that beetles make a living all over the planet -- every nook, niche and dung pile -- except the poles and oceans. There are more than 350,000 named species, with some 5,000 in Vermont.

Cheese Whizzes: Undergrads Engineer Cleaner Air for Vermont Cheese Cave

<p><span id="caption">Flash Player is required to view this video. <a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/">Download Flash 10 here.</a></span>The Cellars at Jasper Hill in Greensboro, Vt. is an engineering marvel, a 21,000-square-foot structure built underground at a depth where the earth's natural temperature and humidity are perfect for aging cheese. When a heating and ventilating issue developed in the Cellars' cheese caves, which threatened cheese quality, conventional solutions proposed by professional engineers fell flat.</p> <script src="/~uvmpr/videos/swfobject.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[ var s1 = new SWFObject('/~uvmpr/videos/player.swf','player','420','280','9'); s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); s1.addParam('flashvars','file=http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/videos/cheesecave3.flv&skin=/~uvmpr/videos/stijl.swf�=http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/videos/cheesecave_preview.jpg'); s1.write('preview'); // ]]></script>

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