<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/timthomas_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />In 2005, Tim Thomas '97 was into his thirties, his dream of playing in the NHL slipping into the rearview. Then the Boston Bruins called…again.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/exercise_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />For many, the mental/emotional boost of that morning run or noontime yoga class is every bit as important as the good they do for your body. It's no surprise that exercise benefits the head as well as the heart.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/gwenbuel_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Last spring, Gwen Buel '09 knew she had crossed a major intellectual hurdle. It wasn't just that she'd been accepted at Harvard to pursue a doctorate in biology. (She had — and is.) No, it was something more tribal: she'd stumped her father.
<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> If you thought digging in the dirt stopped being a suitable summer activity in sixth grade, think again. For four weeks this July, seven ¶¶Òõ̽̽ undergrads and two teaching assistants joined Scott Van Keuren, assistant professor of anthropology, on an excavation at Fourmile Ruin, the largest Ancestral Pueblo, or Anasazi village, in Eastern Arizona.</span>
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<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/trustees1009_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />In its Oct. 22-24 meeting, ¶¶Òõ̽̽ board of trustees chewed over ambitious new academic initiatives, settled on a financing strategy for a long-in-the-works greening project, and learned of the admissions challenges facing the university, and higher education generally, in a threatening demographic and financial climate.
