YOU SHOULD KNOW a warm welcome to the xenobots, hybrid robot-organisms like “ So no other. May the world treat you kindly.” —Wired Wired was among hundreds of media outlets worldwide that recently covered ground-breaking research by UVM professor of computer science Joshua Bongard and colleagues at Tufts University. Read more on page 18.
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English professor Emily Bernard’s collection of essays Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine has garnered wide praise, including earning a place among author and critic Maureen Corrigan’s top ten “unputdownable reads” of 2019.
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0% The percentage University of Vermont tuition will increase from fall 2019 to fall 2020. Read more on page 7.
GREEN GREATNESS For the third consecutive year, UVM’S Grossman School of Business Sustainable Innovation MBA has been named the no. 1 “best Green MBA” program by The Princeton Review.
William Copeland, professor of psychiatry, Mary Cushman, professor
of medicine and of pathology and laboratory medicine, and Taylor Ricketts, director of UVM’s Gund Institute for Environment, all earned a place on the 2019 list of the world’s most influential researchers. The Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list is based on the number of times published studies have been cited by other researchers over the past decade.
WINNING STREAK During the fall semester, Catamount student-athletes combined to achieve a school-record GPA of 3.297, marking the thirty-third consecutive semester the department GPA has been above 3.0. Read more: go.uvm.edu/gpa
SOUTH POLE SCIENCE As one of twenty-four members of the National Science Board appointed by the President of the United States, UVM President Suresh Garimella spent a week in December touring Antarctica and inspecting facilities run by the U.S. National Science Foundation on the coast of the continent and at the South Pole itself. “Now it’s critical—existentially critical—to understand Antarctica,” Garimella says. “Understanding how—and how fast—the glaciers and ice sheets are moving, melting, and growing in this remote part of the planet is of great consequence for all of us.” Read more: go.uvm.edu/pole
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