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Rising star Mike Holober, a pianist, composer and arranger Indiejazz called "one of the freshest voices in jazz," will be the featured artist in a University of Vermont Jazz Ensemble concert Friday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall. Admission is free.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/businessstudents_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />As Sarah Madey '09 learned the ropes of her new position at Maguire Associates, a research-based consulting firm in Boston focusing on higher education, she found herself drawing on concepts she learned in the School of Business Administration.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/unitednationsvisit_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />In the year 2000, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325, which called for "special measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape...in situations of armed violence" -- and requires that women be included in peacemaking efforts. Yet in the following ten years, rape has become an increasingly pervasive weapon of war.