<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/tomdouglas_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />For Tom Douglas, who'd been working for the Vermont Ferry Company for 15 years when he decided to start college in 2001, overcoming the fear of leaving full-time work to pursue a dream of becoming an artist was challenging to say the least. After all, he had three young children to support.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/uvmtoday/images/yalelaw_300x212.jpg" height="210" width="300" />Kyle Barry '04 was confident that his ¶¶Òõ̽̽ record made him a good law school candidate. But getting into #1 ranked Yale Law School — the legendary alma mater of Presidents and Supreme Court justices — seemed beyond reach and wasn't on his list. That was a decision political science professor Bob Taylor, who knew Barry well, wouldn't accept.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/bruceforbes_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Across vast expanses of time and tundra, the native Nenets people and their reindeer herds have been a constant. Measure of the remoteness of their homeland is found in the Nenets word that gives name to the peninsula jutting some 450-miles into the Kara Sea along Siberia's northern coast. Yamal: End of the World.<span id="caption"> Research by alumnus Bruce Forbes considers the impact of rapid ecological and social changes on the Nenets people of Siberia's northern coast.</span>
