NEWS CLIPS University Vermont The

The University of Vermont
April 2007 - June 2007
NEWS CLIPS
Selected Appearances in Broadcast Media
On April 5, WPTZ aired a story on progress of the Dudley H. Davis Student Center.
On April 13, Emily Bernard, assistant professor of English, was interviewed on Vermont Public
Radio’s Morning Edition on her essay, “Teaching the N-Word.”
The opening of the Center for Digital Initiatives, a Bailey/Howe library program that is digitizing
parts of UVM’s Special Collections to make them accessible online, was covered on April 16 on
WCAX.
On April 19, Patricia Prelock, professor and chair of communication sciences, discussed autism on
Vermont Public Radio’s Switchboard.
Marsh Professor-at-Large William Darity was interviewed on Vermont Public Radio’s Midday
Report on April 19.
The Vermont Genetics Network was featured in an April 22 story on WCAX.
On April 25, WCAX and WPTZ covered Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s visit to campus.
Adam Lock, assistant professor of animal science, was interviewed on WCAX on April 25 on
bovine intelligence.
Alice Fothergill, assistant professor of sociology, was interviewed for a two-part series aired on
May 9 and 10 on WCAX on marriage and divorce.
Mike Altman, a transportation services supervisor, was interviewed on May 10 on Vermont Public
Radio on the use of compressed natural gas busses on campus.
On May 10, Vermont Public Radio aired a news story on a nearly $7 million gift to the College of
Medicine from the estate of Burlington resident Elinor B. Tourville Bennett. The gift is earmarked
for no-fee, no-interest loans for Vermont students. Interim Dean John Fogarty was interviewed for
the story. WCAX and WPTZ aired coverage of the gift as well, interviewing students Rebecca
Brakeley and Jesse Hahn.
Rachel Johnson, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and professor of nutrition
and food sciences, provided commentary on May 16 on Vermont Public Radio on the overuse of
labeling on food products, which can often create confusion for consumers attempting to make
healthy choices
On May 17, Vermont Public Radio aired a story about research conducted by Beverly Wemple,
associate professor of geography, on the impact of mountain resort development on water quality.
Jue-Fei Wang, research assistant professor of education, was featured on Vermont Public Radio’s
Switchboard on May 17 talking about Vermont's connections with China.
On May 20, WCAX aired coverage of UVM’s commencement ceremony.
Demolition of the UVM bookstore was covered on June 5 on WCAX. The story reported that
waste was sorted for recycling and that the new bookstore opened in the Davis Center in May.
Ralph Budd, professor of medicine and immunobiology, was interviewed on June 13 on Vermont
Public Radio on the affects of Lyme disease on joints.
On June 18, WCAX aired a story about research conducted at UVM on the affects of depression on
family life. The Raising Healthy Children study looks at families where one or both parents suffer
from depression.
On June 28, WCAX reported that Athletic Director Bob Corran signed a new 3 year contract with
the option for 3 more years. The new contract also added the title of Associate Vice President to
Corran’s duties.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Good Things Come in [Omega] Threes...................................................................................... EatingWell
The Once and Future Republic of Vermont....................................................................... Washington Post
The Education Gap: Corrections Spending Higher than College in Vermont............Burlington Free Press
Program Unites Students to Solve Global Challenges...........................................................NSTA Reports
Straight Ahead: UVM Researchers Find People Don’t Read Labels .........................Modern Food Service
Vermont Beckons for Green Businesses................................................................................... Waste News
This One’s a Keeper....................................................................................................Burlington Free Press
Flavored Milk Provides Tasty Nutrition .............................................................................Greenville Local
New Website Helps Manage Dairy Nitrogen ...................................................................Illinois AgriNews
Calling All Robots ......................................................................................................Burlington Free Press
Signs of the Times ......................................................................................................Burlington Free Press
The Once and Future Republic of Vermont..............................................................................Valley News
UVM Students Stage 15 One-Act Plays .............................................................................. Stowe Reporter
Technology Joins Cultures: Videoconference on Indian Street Children...................Burlington Free Press
EatingWell Models Book on VTrim...........................................................................Burlington Free Press
Learned Behavior: VTrim Helps People Lose Weight by Changing Patterns............Burlington Free Press
Students Face Global Challenge .................................................................................Burlington Free Press
UVM Opens Access to Collections ............................................................................Burlington Free Press
Antidepressants Get a Boost for Use in Teens................................................................Wall Street Journal
Come Back to Vermont, State Tells Grads.................................................................Burlington Free Press
Forum Explores Local-food Issues .............................................................................Burlington Free Press
Q&A: Elie Wiesel on Fanaticism, War and Silliness .................................................Burlington Free Press
‘Memory is the Soul of History’.................................................................................Burlington Free Press
It’s Maple Syrup Time, So Why the Whiff of French Fries? ............................................New York Times
New Moms’ FAQs.............................................................................................................................Parents
A Sense of Direction...................................................................................................... Vermont Magazine
Vermont Center for Emerging Technology Is UVM Affiliated Incubator ..... Champlain Business Journal
UVM Hosts Musical-Theater Week .................................................................................... Stowe Reporter
Higher Education Calls for Higher Investment ..........................................................Burlington Free Press
Genes Take Charge, and Diets Fall by the Wayside..........................................................New York Times
Chinese and Vermont Students to Present Joint Research to Business Community ........... Vermont Times
From Dorm to Duty ....................................................................................................Burlington Free Press
Woman Leaves $6.8M to UVM Medical School for Loan Program.......................... Brattleboro Reformer
UVM Uses Blogs to Reach Beyond Ivy-covered Walls....................................................... Rutland Herald
Burlington from the Ground Up .................................................................................Burlington Free Press
Chinese, Vermont Students Present Joint Research ...................................................Burlington Free Press
Ivy League Admissions Crunch Brings New Cachet to Next Tier....................................New York Times
Some Students on Fast Track......................................................................................Burlington Free Press
Can Soft Drinks Be Healthy?...........................................................................................................WebMD
UVM Students Help Tell Town’s Story .....................................................................Burlington Free Press
‘Starfish’ a Robot Without Peers ................................................................................Burlington Free Press
Wide-open Book: Vermont Authors Look to Internet...................................................... The Cape Codder
Contest Helps Boost Math, Science Skills......................................................................... Washington Post
Contest Helps Boost Math, Science Skills................................................................................. USA Today
Contest Helps Boost Math, Science Skills.................................................................................. ABC News
Lake Director Puts Focus on Biodiversity ........................................................................ Press-Republican
UVM Grads Build Vermont’s Future .........................................................................Burlington Free Press
2,494 Graduate at UVM: Rep. Lewis Urges Lead Us to a Better Place .....................Burlington Free Press
Study Puts Price Tag on a State’s Natural Resources............................New York Times-National Edition
From Pine Beaches to Pine Barrens...................................................................................New York Times
Contest Aims to Educate: Students Work to End Global Warming .......................................am New York
Creating Crosswords for the Blind ....................................................................................Weymouth News
Scholarship Program Needs Secure Future.................................................................Burlington Free Press
Home Improvement: UVM Pushes Forward on New Sports Complex......................Burlington Free Press
Dairy Has Little Impact on Weight Loss ................................................................. Rocky Mountain News
University of Vermont Eyes New Sports Facilities, Possible Arena...........Construction Equipment Guide
A Tale of Two Rivers .......................................................................................................... Stowe Reporter
Redesigning a Spinal Cord Injury Program .........................................PT – Magazine of Physical Therapy
UVM Program Seeks Student Diversity .....................................................................Burlington Free Press
UVM Seeks Environmental Diversity ........................................................................ Brattleboro Reformer
UVM’s Dawley Signs on for 4 More Years ...............................................................Burlington Free Press
Mountaintop Warns of Global Warming ........................................................................................Recorder
On N.H. Mountain, Dire Warnings on Warming......................................................................Times Argus
A Guide to America’s Cheese Trail...................................................................................New York Times
Saving Songbirds ........................................................................................................Burlington Free Press
Insect’s Assault on Trees Growing ......................................................................................... Boston Globe
Syrup Shortage Saps Supply.....................................................................................................Times Union
UVM Charts Course on Green Reputation .................................................................Burlington Free Press
Grant Winner Shows Work in Progress............................................................................... Stowe Reporter
Globalization in Every Loaf...............................................................................................New York Times
First Scholarships Make a Big Difference ..................................................................Burlington Free Press
Vermont Colleges Take Lead Toward Carbon-Neutrality..........................................Burlington Free Press
UVM Unveils Green-buses Certificate: Alternative-fuel Vehicles Targeted .............Burlington Free Press
UVM Cuts Waste: Meal Leftovers Recycled, Composted .........................................Burlington Free Press
Jobs Needed in County: Daniel Mark Fogel Interview .............................................. Addison Independent
UVM’s Corran Signs Three-year Extension...............................................................Burlington Free Press
Let’s Put on a Show: UVM Hosts ‘Broadway Boot Camp’ .......................................Burlington Free Press
Pleasure Hunt ......................................................................................................................Allure Magazine
S E N S E
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s someone with a family history of heart problems, I struggle with far-from-perfect cholesterol numbers. I’m ever hopeful for a science breakthrough I can act on. I once ate oats
every day for three months in an attempt to nudge my lipid values into
healthier ranges; it worked, but alas, not enough. I still enjoy my oat
cereal, but I know I need to do more. Lately, I’m eating more fish.
Last October, Harvard scientists analyzed two decades of research
and concluded that modest consumption of fish (one to two servings
per week), especially salmon, tuna and other types rich in the fatty
acids known as omega-3s, reduced risk of heart disease death by 36
percent and overall deaths by 17 percent. The data were so compelling the authors claimed the health benefits of eating seafood outweigh the risks of exposure to environmental contaminants in fish
such as methyl mercury or PCBs. (That said, women who are nursing,
pregnant or planning to become pregnant and children younger than
12 should avoid fish with higher mercury levels, such as swordfish.)
Ever since my grad-student days I’ve been intrigued by the story
of pioneering epidemiologists who sought to learn why heart disease
was practically unheard of in Greenland’s Inuit people—despite their
diet of high-fat, high-cholesterol whale and seal meat. The scientists
discovered that two omega-3 fatty acids predominant in fish—eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexanoic acid (DHA)—were widespread in the Inuit blood and were likely protecting their hearts.
How? When it comes to fats, we are what we eat: our cell mem-
FISH SOURCES (AS EPA/DHA):
GOAL: 250 MG/DAY OR
1,500-2,000 MG/WEEK*
Salmon, pink, 3 ounces
Mackerel, 3 ounces
Tuna, light, canned in water, 3 ounces
PLANT SOURCES (AS ALA):
GOAL: AT LEAST 1,100 MG/DAY (WOMEN),
1,600 MG/DAY (MEN)**
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Ground flaxseed, 2 tablespoons
For heart health, think fish, but plant
sources also provide important
benefits. Aim to meet both intake
goals daily, with foods like these.
Walnuts, 1 ounce
Canola oil, 1 tablespoon
branes reflect the fat content of our diet.
When we eat ample omega-3s, our membranes—including those of the heart and
blood vessels—are more elastic (that’s
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how fish stay flexible in icy waters). Blood
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fights inflammation, a known disease risk
factor. Inflammation is the body’s normal
response to injury, but chronic inflammation seems to play a role in
causing hardened arteries and other heart problems.
Plant foods like flaxseed, soybeans, canola and walnuts are good
sources of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), another omega-3 with its own
heart benefits. A small amount of ALA is also converted to EPA and
DHA in the body, “but at a very slow rate,” says William Connor,
M.D., a longtime friend of mine and a professor at Oregon Health &
Science University who has studied fish and fish oils for more than 30
years. If it’s heart-health effects you’re after, he emphasizes, “what you
want are EPA and DHA, from fish or fish-oil supplements.”
But omega-3s are usually lacking in our diets, vastly outnumbered
by omega-6 fatty acids common to processed foods made with vegetable oils including safflower and cottonseed. Omega-6s
tend to promote inflammation, while omega-3s reduce it.
OMEGA-3S (mg)
Many experts believe our American diets tilt too much
toward omega-6s, and that the best way to restore balance is to boost our intake of omega-3s from any source.
So I’m doing my darnedest to eat more omega-3s. I
aim to serve a fatty fish like salmon twice a week, and
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consider the seafood dishes first in restaurants. I sprinkle
walnuts on my salads and make dressings with canola oil.
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As ever, moderation is key. Very high intakes of fish230
based omega-3s (over 3,000 mg/day) can raise the risk of
excessive bleeding or even hemorrhagic stroke. And, like
any fat source, omega-3s are still calorie-rich. So focus
on substituting (not adding) omega-3s for other fats you
eat. After all, the most important thing you can do for
3,710
your heart is to be at a healthy weight. Without that,
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keeping your heart healthy is just a fishing expedition. g
1,300
Soybean oil, 1 tablespoon
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The Once and Future Republic of Vermont
By Ian Baldwin and Frank Bryan
Sunday, April 1, 2007; B01
BURLINGTON, Vt.
The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State.
Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think
the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S.
government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world,
toward its own citizens and toward local democratic institutions. It has
abandoned the democratic vision of its founders and eroded Americans'
fundamental freedoms.
Vermont did not join the Union to become part of an empire.
Some of us therefore seek permission to leave.
A decade before the War of Independence, Vermont became New England's first frontier, settled by pioneers escaping colonial bondage
who hewed settlements across a lush region whose spine is the Green Mountains. These independent folk brought with them what Henry
David Thoreau called the "true American Congress" -- the New England town meeting, which is still the legislature for nearly all of
Vermont's 237 towns. Here every citizen is a legislator who helps fashion the rules that govern the locality.
Today, however, Vermont no longer controls even its own National Guard, a domestic emergency force that is now employed in an
imperial war 6,000 miles away. The 9/11 commission report says that "the American homeland is the planet." To defend this
"homeland," the United States spends six times as much on its military as China, the next highest-spending nation, funding more than
730 military bases in more than 130 countries, abetted by more than 100 military space satellites and more than 100,000 seaborne battleready forces. This is the greatest military colossus ever forged.
Few heed George Washington's Farewell Address, which warned against the danger of a permanent large standing army that "can be
regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." Or that of a later general-become-president: "We must never let the weight of [the
military-industrial complex] endanger our liberties or democratic processes." Dwight D. Eisenhower pointedly included the word
"congressional" after "military-industrial" but allowed his advisers to excise it. That word completes a true description of the hidden
threat to democracy in the United States.
The two of us are typical of the diversity of Vermont's secessionist movement: one descended from old Vermonter stock, the other a
more recent arrival -- a "flatlander" from down country. Our Vermont homeland remains economically conservative and socially liberal.
And the love of freedom runs deep in its psyche.
Vermont seceded from the British Empire in 1777 and stood free for 14 years, until 1791. Its constitution -- which preceded the U.S.
Constitution by more than a decade -- was the first to prohibit slavery in the New World and to guarantee universal manhood suffrage.
Vermont issued its own currency, ran its own postal service, developed its own foreign relations, grew its own food, made its own roads
and paid for its own militia. No other state, not even Texas, governed itself more thoroughly or longer before giving up its nationhood
and joining the Union.
But the seeds of disunion have been growing since the beginning. Vermont more or less sat out the War of 1812, and its governor
ordered troops fighting the British to disengage and come home. Vermont fought the Civil War primarily to end slavery; Abraham
Lincoln did so primarily to save the Union. Vermont's record on the slavery issue was so strong that Georgia's legislature resolved that a
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ditch be dug around the "pestiferous" state and it be floated out to sea.
After the Great Flood of 1927, the worst natural disaster in the state's history, President Calvin Coolidge (a Vermonter) offered help.
Vermont's governor replied, "Vermont will take care of its own." In 1936, town meetings rejected a huge federal highway referendum
that would have blacktopped the Green Mountain crest line from Massachusetts to Canada.
Nor did Vermont sign on when imperial Washington demanded that the state raise its drinking age from 18 to 21 in 1985. The federal
government thereupon resorted to its favored tactic, blackmail. Raise your drinking age, said Ronald Reagan, or we'll take away the
money you need to keep the interstates paved. Vermont took its case for state control to the Supreme Court -- and lost.
It's quite simple. The United States has destroyed the 10th Amendment, which says that "powers not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The present movement for secession has been gathering steam for a decade and a half. In preparation for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991,
public debates -- moderated by then-Lt. Gov. Howard Dean -- were held in seven towns before crowds that averaged 230 citizens. At the
end of each, Dean asked all those in favor of Vermont's seceding from the Union to stand and be counted. In town after town, solid
majorities stood. The final count: 999 (62 percent) for secession and 608 opposed.
In early 2003, transplanted Southerner and retired Duke University economics professor Thomas Naylor gave a speech at Johnson State
College opposing the Iraq war. When he pitched the idea of secession to the crowd, he saw many eyes "light up," he said. Later that
year, he and several others started a loosely organized movement (now a think tank) called the Second Vermont Republic, which has an
independent quarterly journal, Vermont Commons, and a Web site.
In October 2005, about 300 Vermonters attended a statewide convention on the question of secession. Six months later, the annual
Vermont Poll of the University of Vermont's Center for Rural Studies found that about 8 percent of respondents replied "yes" to peaceful
secession, arguably making Vermont foremost among the many states with secessionist movements (including Alaska, California,
Hawaii, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Texas).
We secessionists believe that the 350-year swing of history's pendulum toward large, centralized imperial states is once again reversing
itself.
Why? First, the cost of oil and gas. According to urban planner James Howard Kunstler, "Anything organized on a gigantic scale . . .
will probably falter in the energy-scarce future." Second, third-wave technology is as inherently democratic and decentralist as secondwave technology was authoritarian and centralist. Gov. Jim Douglas wants Vermont to be the first "e-state," making broadband Internet
access available to every household and business in the state by 2010. Vermont will soon be fully wired into the global social commons.
Against this backdrop, secessionists from all over the state will gather in June to plan a grass-roots campaign to get at least 200 towns to
vote by 2012 on independence. We believe that one outcome of this meeting will be dialogues among different communities of
Vermonters committed to achieving local economic vitality, be they farmers, entrepreneurs, bankers, merchants, lawyers, independent
media providers, construction workers, manufacturers, artists, entertainers or anyone else with a stake in Vermont's future -- anyone for
whom freedom is not just a slogan.
If Vermonters succeed in once again inventing vibrant local economies, these in turn may reinvigorate the small-scale democratic town
meeting tradition, the true American Congress, and re-create the rudiments of a republic once again able to make its own way in the
world. The once and future republic of Vermont.
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Ian Baldwin is publisher of Vermont Commons. Frank Bryan, a political science professor at the University of Vermont, is author
of "Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How
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By LISA RATHKE
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Sunday, May 20, 2007; 9:36 PM
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Chris Fitzhugh spent spring break building a copper and
PVC-pipe model to show how temperature differences in the ocean can be used
to generate electricity. It's not just a personal quest.
The 17-year-old junior from Peacham and his teammates _ two in Mexico, one
at St. Johnsbury Academy _ were competing in the Global Challenge, a
Vermont-based contest aimed at improving American high school students'
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grueling weeks, wrote a professional
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collaboration using science and
technology," said David Gibson,
executive director of the Global
Challenge and a research assistant
professor in computer sciences at the
University of Vermont.
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clients planned to outsource design
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India and Japan have been tackling
technological solutions to global
warming. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
"I've got to do something so that our
kids have a shot in the global
economy," he said then.
He launched the contest in Vermont,
and last fall it was awarded a
$900,000 National Science
Foundation Grant and expanded
worldwide. Winners will be
announced in June.
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exposes them to opportunities in
science, technology, engineering and
math, Gibson said. "We need projects
like this across the nation, so we can
scoop these kids up because schools
don't do it for them," he said.
With strong corporate support he
could envision a million students
worldwide taking part.
Fitzhugh and a fellow St. Johnsbury
Academy student started out with two
partners from China but they dropped
out early in the contest. That's not
uncommon.
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some teams can fall apart," Gibson said.
So two students from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, joined the team. They needed to
stick together to be eligible to win the competition, earning at least $2,500 each
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Chris Fitzhugh holds a concept drawing that shows how the temperature
differences in the ocean can be used to generate large amounts of
electricity at his home in Peacham, Vt., Friday, April 13, 2007. Fitzhugh
plans to spend his spring break pounding out a business plan and
building a copper and PVC-pipe model to show how it will work. The 17year-old from Peacham and his three teammates two in Mexico and one
at the St. Johnsbury Academy are competing in the Global Challenge, a
Vermont-based contest aimed at improving American students' math
and science skills. During the school year, 58 teams of American
students coupled with students from China, India and Japan have been
tackling technological solutions to global warming. (AP Photo/Toby
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"I've got to do something so that our kids have a shot in the
global economy," he said then.
He launched the contest in Vermont, and last fall it was awarded a
$900,000 National Science Foundation Grant and expanded
worldwide. Winners will be announced in June.
Not only does the contest encourage interaction between students
across the globe to solve problems, it also exposes them to
opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math,
Gibson said. "We need projects like this across the nation, so we
can scoop these kids up because schools don't do it for them," he
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Jobs needed in county
June 28, 2007
By MEGAN JAMES
MIDDLEBURY — Five years into his role as president of the University of Vermont, Dan Fogel
stressed in an interview this week at the Addison Independent offices that creating jobs for the larger
community, including Addison County, is as important to his research university as attracting and
retaining students.
The key to achieving this, he said, is to bolster an academic environment that encourages the
development of entrepreneurial projects, from students and faculty alike, that fit into “Vermont’s
environmental brand” and sustainable technology niche.
Fogel’s plan complements the recently passed Next Generation legislation, in which the state
appropriated $12 million in scholarships for Vermont students who attend Vermont institutions of higher
education under the condition that they stay in the state for at least three years after getting their degrees.
Fogel stressed that the university can play a key role in creating the employment opportunities those
students will need after graduation.
Fogel pointed to UVM’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences as an example of the kind of
innovative breeding ground he hopes to develop throughout the university. In the last couple years,
projects like The Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese (VIAC), a public outreach and research center
that works with numerous cheesemaking operations in Addison County, have begun to take hold in the
larger community, he said.
VIAC works with Champlain Valley Creamery in Vergennes, Orb Weaver Farm in New Haven and
Bingham’s Farm in Middlebury, among others, on researching technology, food safety production issues
and quality issues. The institute’s goal is to give artisan cheese producers a “competitive edge” around
the state, Fogel said.
Out of the same school came Natural Coatings, a company based in the Northeast Kingdom that
produces whey-based products, including furniture and wood coating.
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And researchers in UVM’s Nutrition and Food Sciences department even patented a diet program called
Vtrim, which offers all its weight-loss programs online.
“The whole gestalt around the Next Generation idea is not that you just try to get kids to stay in the state
for higher education, but you try to create opportunities for them to work here when they graduate,”
Fogel said. “So we’re very focused on taking our intellectual property, whether it comes out of the work
of students or scientific staff and faculty, and looking at what can be commercialized.”
This intellectual property will profit the university, of course, but that profit is integral to funding future
initiatives that will create more jobs, Fogel said.
With this in mind, Fogel’s administration has created a structure called UVM Ventures, “a set of
mechanisms and incentives to support members of the university community who have potentially
marketable intellectual property,” he said. The program provides seed grants and innovation grants to
students and faculty members with marketable ideas.
“The goal is to take these technologies and bring them to the point where they create valuable
enterprises, where they create jobs,” he said.
Actualizing these projects will be a challenge, Fogel said, but with enough support he is confident the
university will begin building an infrastructure that could lead to a switch in the state’s demographic.
“We’ve been on such a powerful trajectory for the past five years, that we really believe we’ve created
very high expectations for the university and we’re going to have to work very hard to meet them.”
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