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.

A New Audience to Have in Stitches: From Comedy to Surgery

“I came to medical school feeling like I had two competing identities: the professional and the comedian. Instead of asking me to choose between them, this community showed me how to be both authentically.” Hometown: Originally Morristown, New Jersey, but her family moved to Vermont in 2013.Where will you be doing your residency?: NYU Grossman […]

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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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