Recent News

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  • Spider Brain Research Leads VT Neuroscientists to Groundbreaking Alzheimer’s Discovery
    December 3, 2024 by Stephanie Knific
    Researchers from UVM’s Larner College of Medicine and Saint Michael’s College, including Ruth Fabian-Fine, Ph.D., and John DeWitt, M.D., Ph.D., have made a groundbreaking new discovery—guided by previous research on spider brains. The findings provide a better understanding of how Alzheimer’s disease develops in the human brain and offer a new perspective on brain pathologies observed in Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Lasting Friendships: Class of 1967 Keeps Close Ties
    December 2, 2024 by Janet Essman Franz
    A group of alumni from the medical class of 1967 gathers every three months or so to catch up, check in with each other, and reminisce about their days together at the University of Vermont. They have been meeting regularly for the past two years, typically at a coffee shop or one of their homes. The now-retired physicians collectively represent about 450 years of clinical practice.
  • The Art of Science
    December 2, 2024 by Margie Brenner
    Amber Goerner, M.S.’24, who earned her master’s degree in cellular, molecular, and biomedical sciences from the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine, expresses her fascination with science by crocheting some of the viruses she studies.
  • Invisible No More: The UVM Health Network’s Mosaic Project
    December 2, 2024 by Tony Williams, M.D.
    Anthony Williams, M.D., assistant professor of family medicine and assistant dean of admissions at the Larner College of Medicine, shares his reflections on becoming a doctor as part of the UVM Health Network’s Mosaic Project: Our People. Their Stories.
  • VCBH Presents Preventive Medicine’s Eleventh Special Issue, November 2024
    December 2, 2024 by Christopher Pung
    The November 2024 Special Issue of Preventive Medicine is now available. As a part of the Behavior Series, this Special Issue centers on "Behavior change, health, and health disparities: Smoking and other tobacco use among women and girls." VCBH Director Stephen Higgins, PhD acted as guest editor and organized the selection of papers.

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