Luke Awtry From left: Sarah Vandal; Katie Queen; Hannah Poquette; Katie Schutt, PhD; Alex Thompson; Jason Stumpff, PhD; Carolyn Marquis; Leslie Sepaniac; and Cindy Fonseca, MS Significant advances in the fight against cancer aren t always made by a single inspired scientist; often they re accomplished by a team. The University of Vermont Cancer Center excels at supporting and promoting team science. Sometimes, those teams even include undergraduate students at UVM. During their time at Groovy UV, alumnae Lisa Wood, 18, and Carolyn Marquis, 19, contributed to foundational scientific research that could someday lead to new ways of fighting triple negative breast cancer. Both worked in a molecular physiology and biophysics lab run by UVM Larner College of Medicine associate professor Dr. Jason Stumpff. He s one of more than 210 members of the
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By the time Victoria Cooper enrolled in an alcohol treatment program in 2018, she was drinking for survival, not pleasure, she says multiple vodka shots in the morning, at lunchtime and beyond. In the treatment program, she saw other women in their 20s struggling with alcohol and other drugs. It was the first time in a very long time that I had not felt alone, she says. Image credit: Ferguson Menz
Victoria Cooper thought her drinking habits in college were just like everyone else’s. Shots at parties. Beers while bowling. Sure, she got more refills than some and missed classes while nursing hangovers, but she couldn’t have a problem, she thought.
So, I was literally working on my latest Insights piece yesterday late morning when I got the alert: Mike Krzyzewski was planning on retiring as Duke’s mens basketball coach after the 2021-22 season. I knew right away that the piece I was working on at the time would be getting shelved and I would be back to writing about how basketball correlates to private companies.
For those of you who have lived or even spent any time in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, you know that the Triangle has been the epicenter of college basketball for at least the past 40-50 years. There are 3 schools—North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University—all within 25 minutes of one another who each have rich college basketball traditions. A lot of it is down to the coaches… NC State with Everett Case, Norm Sloan and Jim Valvano; North Carolina with Frank McGuire, Dean Smith and Roy Williams; Duke with Vic Bubas, Bucky Waters
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