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New Program Creates Climate for Science Learning

<span id="preview"></span> <span id="caption">Flash Player is required to view this video. <a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/">Download Flash 10 here.</a></span></span>Dana Dezotell must know what she's doing. The energetic science teacher has instructed students in her ninth grade Earth Science class at Missisquoi Valley Union High School in Swanton to do whatever it takes to create clouds of condensation in the large soft drink bottles she's distributed, and students are avidly pouring water in the bottles, squeezing and unsqueezing them, and banging them against their desks to comply.</span> <script type='text/javascript' src='/~uvmpr/videos/swfobject.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> var s1 = new SWFObject('/~uvmpr/videos/player.swf','player','420','280','9'); s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); s1.addParam('flashvars','file=/~uvmpr/videos/swac2.flv&skin=/~uvmpr/videos/stijl.swf&image=/~uvmpr/videos/swac_preview.jpg'); s1.write('preview'); </script>

Viewpoint: Health Care Reform

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/rxreform_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />President Obama signed into law a sweeping health care reform bill on March 23. Read what ¶¶Òõ̽̽ experts have to say about the bill that's considered the nation's most substantial social legislation in four decades.

Interview: Stuart Kauffman

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/kauffman2_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />In the early 1980's, Stuart Kauffman was a tenured professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania -- but he left his ivied job to go to the deserts of New Mexico. "I was lucky enough to be at the Santa Fe Institute near the beginning and fell in love with complex adaptive systems," he says, "but nobody knew exactly what that meant!"

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