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.
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.
Three Minutes. Two Goals. One Cellular Grand Theft Auto. Read More »
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.
Vermont Reinvents Rural Care at the Library Read More »
Abby Myers is a Ph.D. student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, a multidisciplinary, Ph.D.-granting program that has more than 50 faculty mentors across nine departments in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the Larner College of Medicine.
In the following blog post, she reflects on past childhood dreams to her current cutting-edge research on the pineal gland on the path to becoming a neuroscientist.
Curiosity, Collaboration, and Circadian Rhythms: My Path in Neuroscience Read More »
