Study: Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Prescription Drug Spending
Doctors prescribing medical marijuana to Medicare patients in place of prescription drugs is helping save taxpayers millions of dollars, a new study reports. According to a recent study published in …
10 Ways to Prevent a Cybersecurity Breach at Your Business
By John Burton Today’s c-level executives would be wise to watch a few episodes of the USA network hit series, Mr. Robot. The technology details in the show are provided by a security expert and form…
Alumni Advice: Eva Antczak Creates Inspiration at the Google Food Lab
Eva Antczak ’07 is program manager of the Google Food Lab, a platform for people in food policy, farming, corporate food service, healthcare, technology, corporate food companies, and academia to use…
A Geochemist Finds Her Element with Craft Beer
Penny Higgins is a vertebrate paleontologist and geochemist who loves to brew beer. Penny, who lives outside of Rochester, New York, hopes to eventually open a craft brewery with her husband. She rec…
Zika Fears Hit Home in the U.S.
It has been feared for months that mosquitos would start spreading the Zika virus in the United States. Those fears may have been realized this summer in Florida. Senior officials at the Food and Dru…
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Report: Lack of Cybersecurity Skills Are Leaving Companies Vulnerable
Photo: Flickr Information technology managers in today’s workplace are finding it difficult to protect their networks as a lack of cybersecurity expertise is leaving companies open to attack. A repor…
After Studying Science, Business and Health, Alumna Megan Resnick Lands Her Ideal Job
This fall will be the first time in eight years that Megan Resnick hasn’t been a student at UVM. With three college degrees under her belt from UVM—a B.S. in molecular genetics, an MBA, and a master …
How to Grow Your Own Beer Hops
Photo: Flickr By Lynn McIlwee BrewingWork.com Ever thought about growing hops in your backyard or at the brewery? Hops are pretty easy to grow and are a hearty plant that will return year after yea…
UVM Alumna Creates the Right Solution with Chemistry and Public Health
Lyndelle LeBruin, a project manager at the Laboratory for Clinical Biochemistry Research (LCBR) at the UVM College of Medicine, has spent most of her academic career studying chemistry. But when her …
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Will Medical Cannabis Break the Painkiller Epidemic?
The U.S. is in the midst of an unprecedented opioid epidemic, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Prescription opioid overdoses killed more than 165,000 Americans between 1999 a…
Making the Leap from Working Professional to Pre-Med Student
If this is what “brave” is, I’ll let you in on a little secret. Being “brave” means feeling scared. However, it’s what many people have called me over the past several months as I’ve shared my ambiti…
How to Network and Sell in a Social Setting
Photo: Flickr By Dawn McGinnis What is it about person-to-person networking that can be so infuriating? Everything I read says that mingling at business-related events will lead to more business opp…
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How the Vermont Craft Beer Industry is Finding Success in a Crowded Market
By Emma Marc-Aurele The craft beer industry has contributed over $271 million to the Vermont economy while the industry has added a total $55 billion to the United States’ economy. The craft beer bus…
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