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SGA Updates 9/11/2016

SGA Updates 9/11/2016

Caroline Alkire September 14, 2016

  President Sullivan addresses senators President Sullivan reported on Summer University at UVM; 5,400 students took summer classes this year.   He also praised the peer to peer program...

Crime Log

Crime Log

Bryan O'Keefe September 8, 2016

AUG. 27 Officers saw a student smoking marijuana outside of University Heights North. The student was sent to the Center for Student Conduct. Marijuana, a pipe and alcohol were confiscated.   AUG....

Drone lab creates 3-D map of VT.

Alexandra Shannon September 8, 2016

A 3-D map of Vermont is being made through the use of drones at UVM.   The drone program is a part of the UVM Spatial Analysis Laboratory directed by Research Associate Lecturer Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne.   The...

Alumni association offers post-grad travel program

September 7, 2016

Alumni will soon be able to travel and study decades after graduating.The new program, called UVM Discovery Travel, was developed by the UVM Alumni Association in partnership with Thomas P. Gohagan &...

Advising program to expand by end of year

Advising program to expand by end of year

September 7, 2016

UVM’s peer mentor program has launched with plans to expand by the end of the academic year.It will cost $102,000 to implement the program for the 2016-2017 academic year, according to the official bill...

President of UVM faculty union steps down

President of UVM faculty union steps down

Kelsey Neubauer, Assistant News Editor September 6, 2016

A new president has been chosen to lead UVM’s faculty union. Associate Professor Felicia Kornbluh officially stepped down from her position as president of United Academics, UVM’s faculty union,...

New peer mentoring

New peer mentoring

Caroline Alkire September 2, 2016

  Students will now be able to seek out help from their peers thanks to a new mentoring program. This project, which will cost $170,000 per year, is designed to connect first-year students...

Campus construction gives UVM new look

Campus construction gives UVM new look

August 31, 2016

Campus will look different to many returning students due to construction across campus.In addition to construction, several UVM offices have been moved to new locations.According to Bob Vaughan, Director...

English dept. overhauls major

English dept. overhauls major

August 31, 2016

UVM’s English major will look different this year due to new course requirements, a new minor and a new professor.Maria Hummel, an award-winning poet and nov- elist who previously taught at Stanford...

UVM Medical Center moves offices

UVM Medical Center moves offices

August 30, 2016

Hundreds of offices and employees are being relocated to a new office building by the UVM Medical Center starting next week. Three-hundred offices will be moved from their current location on 1 Burlington...

New housing reserved for Champlain College

New housing reserved for Champlain College

Bryan O'Keefe May 5, 2016

Changes downtown will bring hundreds of new housing units to Burlington.   As a part of the redevelopment of the Burlington Town Center mall, at least 270 residential housing units will be...

Move out project turns trash to treasure

Move out project turns ‘trash to treasure’

Craig Pelsor May 4, 2016

Students moving out of apartments and dorms will have the help of volunteers in an annual effort by UVM and Burlington.   This effort, the Spring Move Out Project, will take place May 25.   The...

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