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Seventeen Vermont high school students gained firsthand experience on the importance of safe driving as part of the Summer Transportation Institute at ¶¶Òõ̽̽.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/happy2_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />What if you had a remote-sensing mechanism that could record how millions of people around the world were feeling on any particular day, without their knowing? That's exactly what Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth, a mathematician and computer scientist working in the Advanced Computing Center at ¶¶Òõ̽̽, have created.</span>

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/brittanylangston_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Prior to singing the national anthem at ¶¶Òõ̽̽'s commencement in May, the largest crowd 2009 graduate Brittany Langston sang in front of was about 300 people at the Burlington Congregational Church. The music major will make a serious jump in audience size on Sunday, July 26 when she sings "God Bless America" during the seventh inning at Fenway Park.</a></span>

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/mtrushmore_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />On the morning of July 8, Basil Tsimoyianis '09 and ten other Greenpeace activists stood near Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota. At the base of the narrow staircase that leads to the path above the gigantic sculpture of four revered U.S. presidents, they stopped. Six people chained themselves across the entrance, blocking the way.</a></span>

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/yoga_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Prior to the opening of the Dudley H. Davis Center in the fall of 2007, Shane Cutler, director of Conference and Event Services, boldly predicted that ¶¶Òõ̽̽ would become one of the premiere conference and event destinations in the nation in the collegiate market within seven years.</span>

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="430" HEIGHT="300" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"> <PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/videos/aero_2009_final.mov"> <PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="false"> <PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true"> <EMBED SRC="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/videos/aero_2009_final.mov" WIDTH="430" HEIGHT="300" AUTOPLAY="false" CONTROLLER="true" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"> </EMBED> </OBJECT>Watch the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Alternative Energy Racing Organization (AERO) compete with their car GreenSpeed at the third annual Formula Hybrid International Competition in Louden, New Hampshire. <span id="caption">QuickTime Player is required to view this video. <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">Download QuickTime here.</a> <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/videos/aero_2009_final.mp4">View a smaller, faster loading version of the video.</a></span>

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/summeru_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />If a new summer session course fills to capacity it means that Cynthia Belliveau, dean of Continuing Education, and her staff accurately predicted the constantly changing summer school market. The foresight to offer new and unique courses, coupled with the credo that successes can be fleeting, has kept ¶¶Òõ̽̽'s summer session among the region's best for the past 100 years.</a></span>