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From the suffering of New England spruce to UVMs role in a national trend of public honors colleges to the health risks of hormone therapy, campus experts were all over national and local media outlets in October.

Some highlights of the coverage follow:

Honors for the Honors College: UVM and first-year student Bronwyn Stippa were highlighted in an Oct. 11 Associated Press national wire story regarding honors colleges at public universities. The article ran in outlets from USA Today, Washington Times, Florida Times-Union and CNN.com to Vermont's daily newspapers. It featured a photo of Stippa on campus and noted that she chose UVM over private schools like New York University because UVM's Honors College offered small classes, priority scheduling and research opportunities.

Hormone Therapy Health Risks: Dr. Mary Cushman, associate professor of medicine, was lead author of a study published in the Oct. 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, in which she and colleagues found evidence that postmenopausal women who take the hormone therapy estrogen plus progestin have double the risk for venous thrombosis. The risk increased among women who were overweight. Cushman was featured in a number of international and national news stories.

Suffering Spruce: The Observatory section of the Oct. 26 New York Times reported on a UVM study that found that red spruce trees across New England suffered severe damage last winter. The discovery was part of the master's thesis of graduate student Brynne Lazarus, who published the findings along with her mentors at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. The story ran on the Associated Press national wire appearing in newspapers including the Boston Globe and Newsday.

Presidential Facts: Alfred Snider, professor of forensics, commented on the fact checking that now accompanies political campaigning, as reported by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Oct. 17. "There's probably more diligent fact checking than ever, but voters need to follow up on that or it's meaningless," said Snider. "If there are misrepresented facts, or designer statistics, both sides accuse the other of that and so it's a draw."

Other October media appearances:

• Proverb expert Wolfgang Mieder, a professor of German and Russian, was quoted in Attache magazine.
• A Knight Ridder News Service column published in the Philadelphia Inquirer Oct. 4 cited Vermont Lung Center research conducted by Dr. Benjamin Suratt, assistant professor of medicine.
• President Daniel Mark Fogels modern poetry class, which he teaches with Professor Huck Gutman, was featured in the Rutland Herald.
• UVM alumni Crea and Philip Lintilhac contributed $1 million to UVM as an incentive for donors to raise their level of giving for endowed student scholarships, as reported by the Burlington Free Press Oct. 1.
• Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient, spent a week working with students and English faculty, an Oct. 30 Burlington Free Press feature story reported.

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