Graduate Education

Posts about graduate education in the United States, globally, and at the UVM Larner College of Medicine by graduate students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and alumni at UVM Larner Med. Topics frequently covered include the graduate school journey, advice for incoming and current graduate students, and more.

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Three Minutes. Two Goals. One Cellular Grand Theft Auto.

Matt Owens is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences Program and the winner Larner’s preliminary round of UVM’s 2026 Three-Minute Thesis Competition.

In the following blog post, Owens describes his approach in explaining his research in three minutes or less.

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Roz King, M.S.N., RN

Vermont Reinvents Rural Care at the Library

This opinion piece ran in VTDigger on November 30, 2025 by Roz King, M.S.N., R.N. She is a UVM Medical Center Emergency Department nurse, manager of the Research in Emergency Medicine Program and director of the Emergency Medicine Research Associate Program. As a clinical translational scientist, her work focuses on improving access to care and health outcomes in rural and underserved communities. Opinion pieces give voice to the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine community members and do not represent the college’s views.

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