UVM Blogs

A recent posting on Babysitting.net describes 10 Common Causes for Teenage Depression.  I thought it was a useful post and worth passing along.   I think it is also certainly worth noting that most frequently […]

I recently co-authored a summary of the economics of on-farm biodiesel with Netaka White from the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund.  This report collects the economic and logistic learning from the past seven years […]

Passwords serve to protect our privacy, our financial well-being, our reputations and even our identities.  Often, a password is all that stands between us and catastrophe.

Choosing a password: A good password […]

VSA Vermont presents BOOMVT, a drum festival to raise awareness about people with disabilities in the arts.

Sunday, June 2, 2013 at
City Hall Park in Burlington, Vermont

BOOMVT features music performances […]

EDUCATION SPECIALIST – WASTE REDUCTION EDUCATION, GRADES 6 – 12
Oregon Zoo, Portland, Oregon
Closes: Thursday, May 16, 2013

One full-time position
Represented by AFSCME Local 3580

Salary: $51,546 – […]

Communication Internship Opportunity

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization that acts as a catalyst to advance energy efficiency policies, programs, […]

The 2013 New England Campus Sustainability Forum is pleased to announce a competition for funding to support student initiatives for campus sustainability. Mini-grants, up to $1000 for each project, are available […]

Stowe Land Trust
SUMMER NATURALIST INTERN

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Gain valuable on‐the‐job, career driven work experience with Stowe Land Trust (SLT) as […]

Biomass to Biofuels course
2013 Fall Semester, University of Vermont- Bio Renewable Energy Program Registration now open 4 Credits, August 26, 2013 to December 4, 2013 (Wednesdays & Fridays 12:00pm to 3:00pm; (No […]

Our first review of diner Mozz Stix here on the VT Mozz Stix blog. Al’s French Fry’s serves up some mean mozz, $4.25 for 5, it’s a great deal and they’re classic counter service is really good. The mozz stix […]

Meet Ryan Becker.

He’s an 8th grade science teacher at Woodstock Union Middle School, a UVM doctoral student and tweets under the handle @PhySci8. He and his students use twitter in their classroom, and […]

Thank you to partner educator Amanda Bickford for sharing this video about how technology’s being integrated into the Manchester Elementary Middle School classroom, in Manchester […]

Having divided the formation of the phenotype into a patterning node and non-heritable nodes, I want to spend some time discussing what is and isn’t part of the phenotype.

The phenotype is the interface of an […]

Over on Storify, a brief recap of how our first annual iPad play-day went this past weekend. With more than 70 educators from two states, 13 workshops and more live-tweeting than an aviary, we had a BLAST.

An increasingly popular activity for parents of infants and early childhood education centers is to demonstrate to babies and encourage the use of basic sign language or “baby sign” for words such as “milk” or […]

Say “foot-and-mouth disease” really fast.  (Foot-and-mouth disease.)  Did you blur the “and” into an “in”?  Every comedian wannabe is having a hay day with this one.  As my father-in-law says, you don’t need to […]

I could barely contain an excited squeal (yes—squeal) as I waited for the awards to be announced. I knew in my heart that one of my teams would be named Team of the Year. I say “my” teams without a valid sense of […]

Daniel H. Krymkowski, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology[/caption]

In his classic book, The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills coined the phrase “abstracted […]

Dona Brown, Professor of History[/caption]

For many of us today, the phrase “going back to the land” may bring to mind a vision of the 1960s: yurts and domes, communes and co-ops. But Americans have been […]

Valerie Rohy, Chair and Professor, Department of English[/caption]

This lecture examines the retroactive formation of gay identity through the act of reading in a famous lesbian novel of the 1920s, Radclyffe […]

Last week the VT Food Venture Center hosted a panel discussion  on contract growing. The focus of the event was to discuss the opportunities for vegetable producers entering into contracts with food processors. […]

UVM provides secure and reliable network storage for academic work, research, and business files. Saving confidential or sensitive information on desktop or laptop hard drives, or on tablets and phones, greatly […]

Preparing for Online Teaching

Here is the link to the hops crowning video :

Crowning is used as an early season preventative measure against downy mildew.  In this video,  Dr. Heather Darby […]

 
The cultural transition from the military to academia is a challenge. Some local colleges are trying to help.
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One problem many Mozz Stix enthusiasts run into is how to best enjoy a freshly hot mozz stix. You don’t want to wait for it to cool down too much so the mozz is no longer soft, but if it’s fresh from the fryer […]

After our Winooski excursion we needed to decide who had the top mozz, and honestly it was a clear and unanimous decision, all three places put up a good offering but if you’re in the ‘noosk and need your mozz […]

Our final stop was at the top of the circle, Mckee’s! Another spot with outdoor seating and very quick service, we decided to time how long it took from 0 – mozz, and here were the results, not too […]

Next up was Papa Frank’s, a slightly nicer sit-down Italian restaurant about two blocks up the hill from Donny’s. Service here was certainly not as nice, we were seated at a table and after we ate it took […]

First Stop on the tour was Donny’s – a little pizza joint at the bottom of the traffic circle. Service was quite good, order at the counter – and the guy even recommended we eat outside, which we did! Took […]

Saturday May 11, 2013 was the first ever Mozz Stix Tour of Winooski, VT! We hit up the top three Mozz Stix joints in downtown Winooski… keep following to find reviews from Donny’s NY Pizza, Papa Franks, and McKee’s Pub!

Check it. These are some dope Mozz moons that you can pick up at ONE Pepper Grill in the Old North End (ONE Pepper… get it?) of BTV – really good ratio of Mozz to breading, soft and very gooey inside. Three […]

More here and here and here.

We haven’t been there in

(a) 55 years
(b) 800,000  years
(c) 3 million years
(d) all of the above

Can someone please turn down the thermostat?

Tutors,

Congratulations on getting through finals! It’s been a great year, and I want to thank you all for making that happen.

For all of you graduating, an even bigger congratulations to you. Thank you for […]