¶¶Òõ̽̽

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/billingual_featured.jpg" height="300" width="430" />Though the current Fleming Museum exhibit <em>More than Bilingual</em> is an artistic conversation between visual artist William Cordova and poet Major Jackson, the show came together with virtually no literal conversation &#8212; just a few e-mails &#8212; exchanged between the two men. Jackson says, "We both felt that in order for this kind of collaboration to work it would be best if it was an independent response to his work."<span id="caption">"What really started moving me was when I started thinking about what's inside that truck," says Major Jackson, whose poem "Dreams of Permanence" responds to the 10-by-5 foot piece by artist William Cordova.</span>

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/trustees_feb_09_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />At Friday's board of trustees meeting, President Fogel made one announcement designed to bring relief to community members and another meant to give perspective to ¶¶Òõ̽̽'s budget challenges and the impact they'll have on student learning.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/littenberg_300x212.jpg" height="210" width="300" />It was 1979, a time when the fields of "health services research" and "quality improvement" did not yet exist. But that didn't matter to first-year medical student and recently graduated economics major Benjamin Littenberg.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/sarasolnick_featured.jpg" height="300" width="430" />"Just ahead of the Joneses" may be the new catchphrase for capturing how Americans want to compare economically with their neighbors, according to new research by Sara Solnick, associate professor of economics. It's been more than ten years since Solnick first began studying "positional goods," products and services from which satisfaction is derived largely in relation to their perceived exclusivity.<span id="caption">Classic economic theory is grounded in the idea that people make rational choices. Behavioral economists like Sara Solnick see different forces at work. (Photo: Sally McCay)</span>