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New Fleming Museum curator Aimee Marcereau DeGalan had an auspicious introduction to the Green Mountain state. Flying in for her interview, she was seated next to Patricia Brennan, who works in development at the University of Vermont. President Dan Fogel was on the plane as well. “It was cosmic,” says DeGalan. That’s not why she got the job, but it gave her a taste of things to come.... Read more

Last summer, Lt. Col. Michael Ricci, a National Guard reservist, landed at a hospital outside Baghdad and began treating gunshot wounds and other trauma cases. It wasn’t his usual line of work. Ricci, who started his career at Fletcher Allen Health Care in 1989, is a vascular surgeon. That means he usually focuses on blood vessels, not punctured vital organs.... Read more

Vermont's college seniors are preparing to leave college and enter "the real world." UVM senior Louis "Lou" Armistead visits a student BBQ on North Beach and asks the about-to-be grads what comes next — and what words of wisdom they have for younger students.

Their advice? Live it up, give yourself a cool nickname, major in something you can use when you graduate and go to class freshman and sophomore year.

Playing a droning teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ben Stein originated the phrase, “Bueller . . . Bueller?” But it’s a safe bet no one will be playing hooky when the actor/comedian/economist/opinion columnist delivers the UVM School of Business Administration’s Kalkin Lecture on April 25 in the Ira Allen Chapel.... Read more

The women were very tall, vaguely ominous looking, and dressed in black. Anyone who spent time on the University of Vermont campus — specifically the quadrangle behind the Fleming Museum — surely noticed them. Before, that is, they disappeared in 2004. Collectively called “Lamentations,” the five metal sculptures by Judith Brown paired classical form with a recycled, scrap-metal aesthetic. After the artist’s death in 1992, her family donated the works to UVM.... Read more

The University of Vermont is spending $70 million on a new sports complex. Jon Taylor asks students how that money might be better spent.

You may have seen them tacked between “Apartment for Rent” signs and Club Metronome fliers, particularly if you’re given to wandering on the University of Vermont campus. The slightly oversized posters read:

Are you a healthy adult between the ages of 21 and 65? Do you watch at least 3 hours of TV per day on average? Would you like to know how watching TV affects your diet?... Read more

Between Soft Machines and Hard Science” is the provocative title of an exhibit by SUNY-Plattsburgh professor W. David Powell, currently on view in the Wilbur Room of the Fleming Museum. It juxtaposes giclée prints with pseudoscientific apparati from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Humans are the “soft machines” that Powell examines; the “hard science” noted is a blend of quackery artifacts and contemporary diagnostic imagery.... Read more

This week on Loutube News:

University of Vermont senior Louis Armistead attended an early morning political rally last week, featuring superstar politico-spawn Chelsea Clinton.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO — 7:18.

In the poem that gives Angela Patten’s new collection its title, the fossilized tongue of St. Anthony sits under glass, a reminder of “the numinous particulars of flesh.” As it takes on a meaning beyond words, the severed tongue is a wry exemplar for these eloquent memories and telling details.... Read more