<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/trustees0509_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />The ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Board of Trustees passed a level-funded budget for 2010 at its May 14-16 meeting that included a four percent increase for academic units, increased financial aid and one of the lowest tuition increases in the nation among public institutions.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/mccrate_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />In her Old Mill office, Professor Elaine McCrate and student Gillian Perron work on hammering out final details of the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ senior's honors thesis. When Perron asks for clarification of the concept "omitted variable bias," McCrate tells her to envision a drive through the neighborhoods of Burlington's New North End.
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</OBJECT>Six-term Vermont governor, one-time presidential candidate, and recent leader of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean told the 2009 graduating class of ¶¶Òõ̽̽ that, "your generation has remade America already." <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="videos/commencement2009_1.mp4">View a smaller, faster loading version of the video.</a></span>
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/padenconversation_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />During William Paden's time at ¶¶Òõ̽̽, the study of religion has changed. It's evolved, he might say. And in Paden's scholarship, evolution itself has become an increasingly important lens for understanding and comparing religions around the world.
