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Aug. 27 - Sept 2, 2003 Summer Searching Invisible Apartheid After conducting extensive fieldwork for his new book, Hostels, Aug. 28 4 p.m. Sexuality and the Seminar: "Kir Apartheid Legacy, Glen Channel Modulation Elder, an associate by Reactive Oxygen professor of geography, Species," with knows the suffocating Robert Leach of the and obscuring aspects University of Leeds. of life as a poor South B-333 Given. African well. He has also located some sites of ingenuity and hope. Aug. 30 2 p.m. Women’s soccer takes on Stetson. While You Were Centennial Field. Gone... From new Information: uvmathletics.com Sonja Hoelzl, a foreign exhange student deans to new coaches from Germany, is one of many students and to new medical faculty that performed research over the research, a quick Sept. 1 8 p.m. summer. (Photo: Bill DiLillo) summary of summer Twilight induction news for those who ceremony for the spent the hot months Class of 2007 on the off-campus (or off-line). Frances Carr, new vice president of research and UVM Green. dean of the Graduate College, sees research in broader terms than the rigid dictionary version Sept 2. All day. defined as "the methodical investigation into a Classes begin. subject in order to discover facts, or a scholarly or scientific investigation or inquiry." Study Finds New Marker for Stroke Risk Taylor Named First Dean of Honors College Stafford Gardens a Hotspot for Colors, Tour Fleming Showcases Vermont Women Artists NHL Star St. Louis to Play in Benefit Golf Tournament Theatrical Reality HELIX Summer Interns Tackle Diverse Projects June and July Bring E-Mail Change Green Without Sheen George Perkins Marsh Biographer to Speak July Aug. 27 - Sept 2, 2003 Former Vermont Governor to Teach at UVM Former Vermont Gov. Madeleine May Kunin has accepted a joint academic appointment as a distinguished visiting professor of political science at UVM and St. Michael’s College. The presidents of both universities announced the three-year appointment at an Aug. 25 press conference in St. Michael’s Hoehl Welcome Center. “I have strong attachments to both institutions,” Kunin said at the meeting. The three-term governor, who served from 1985 Russian river: Kevin McKenna (right) leading to 1991, earned a master’s degree in English a Smithsonian tour in St. Petersburg during literature at UVM and has previously taught at the city's summer of celebration. St. Michael’s College. “It’s a treat to work with students, to hear their McKenna Leads Smithsonian Tour of St. questions and perspective and to share mine,” Petersburg’s Tercentennial she said. During the fall 2003 semester, she will be a guest lecturer in several academic disciplines, where she will discuss public service, From its founding in 1703 by Tsar Peter the the upcoming presidential race and other timely Great as the “Venice of the North,” to the topics, in addition to being available to meet socialist Leningrad years of the 20s, 30s, and individually with students. early 40s, to its current reputation as a city on the cusp of an economic and cultural comeback, few people know the history of St. Petersburg During the spring 2004 semester, she will teach better than Professor Kevin McKenna. a course at UVM and Saint Michael’s that is tentatively titled “Doing Good,” or “What is the Public Good?” She will invite some of her own McKenna, who has been studying various aspects role models as guest lecturers to her class, she of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia for more than said. During the 2004-5 academic year, Kunin 30 years, is one of five professors nationwide will spend most of her time at St. Michael’s as who have been giving historical tours and the institution celebrates its centennial. She will lectures on St. Petersburg for the Smithsonian teach primarily at UVM in 2005-6. Institute. He was the only one asked to lead a Smithsonian Journeys tour to St. Petersburg from Aug. 3-11 for the 300th anniversary of the city “My goal is to get students involved in public life known as Russia’s “window to the west.” in their communities, and for some to step over the line into politics,” said Kunin, who served by presidential appointment as ambassador to “It was an honor,” McKenna says. “About 20 Switzerland, her native land, from 1996 to 1999. people from all over the county went on the tour. She noted that while many people seem In the 34 years I’ve been going to St. disillusioned with politics, “many UVM and St. Petersburg, this was the most beautiful I’ve ever Michael’s students are active in campus volunteer seen it look.” programs, and they are looking for meaningful lives that include public service.” An authority on Catherine the Great and 18th- century Russian literature, McKenna attributes “We are exceedingly fortunate to welcome the sprucing up of this city of 4.7 million to its Ambassador Kunin as a faculty member,” said yearlong 300th anniversary celebration. As UVM President Daniel Mark Fogel in announcing leader of the Smithsonian tour, he took the appointment. “Her lifelong commitment to participants to historically significant parts of the public service and her efforts to improve city, including the Hermitage museum, where education, protect the environment and advocate McKenna has been a guest lecturer for many for all members of our community will truly serve years. as an inspiration to our students.” McKenna says there are rumblings that St. Marc A. vanderHeyden, Saint Michael’s College Petersburg, often referred to as Russia’s “second president, said, “Our students will be the capital,” could become its nation’s real capital for the first time sine 1917. President Vladimir Putin beneficiaries of Ambassador Kunin’s remarkable is a native of the area and a number of experience in public life.” government ministries are being relocated from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Kunin was Vermont’s first woman governor, and the fourth woman to serve as governor of any “There’s been considerable talk about it,” state. During her tenure, Vermont's teacher McKenna says. “For the first time in a while St. salaries rose from 49th to 26th place in the Petersburg is getting more capital and attention, national ranks, and Fortune magazine rated her especially with Putin being elected. I don’t think as one of the top 10 education governors in the it will happen, but there has a been a lot of focus nation. Her accomplishments also include serving on it lately.” on the executive committee of the National Governors’ Conference (1985–1990); chairing the New England Governors’ Conference (1988); In addition to teaching all levels of Russian and serving as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. language, McKenna teaches survey courses of Department of Education (1993–1996), where 19th-20th century Russian literature as well as she played an integral role in getting President individual-author courses on Pushkin, Gogol, Clinton’s education reform agenda enacted into Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pasternak, and law. Solzhenitsyn. In addition, Kunin is founder, former president The Class of 2007 Arrives and continuing board member of the Institute for Sustainable Communities, an independent The University of Vermont will welcome one of its nonprofit organization whose mission is to help largest, strongest and most diverse incoming communities around the world address classes on Aug. 29 when an estimated 1,900 environmental, economic, and social challenges members of the Class of 2007 arrive on campus. to build a better future shaped and shared by all. Nearly 200 members of the incoming first-year UVM to Offer New Forensic class arrived Aug. 23, to participate in TREK, a Concentration unique experiential learning program sponsored by the Department of Student Life. Some The Perry Mason types dominate crime fiction, students are involved in community service but when it comes to real crime fighting, most projects: performing maintenance on the Long cases are solved by highly trained forensic Trail and Catamount Trail and pitching in to build scientists who use physical, biological, medical a house with Habitat for Humanity; other new and sometimes the behavioral sciences to students are on wilderness and leadership TREKs. analyze and evaluate physical evidence relating to matters of law. The Class of 2007 reflects UVM’s continuing success in attracting more high quality students, Physical evidence “does not forget,” according to as determined by admissions ratings, SAT scores Paul L. Kirk, a legendary Berkeley professor who and high school rank. This year’s incoming class is known as the father of criminalistics. “It is not comprises 1,360 out-of-state students with confused by the excitement of the moment…It combined mean SAT scores of 1152, surpassing cannot perjure itself; it cannot be wholly absent.” last year’s incoming class by nearly 12 points. An estimated 540 Vermont first-year students had combined mean SAT scores of 1124, an increase Since O.J. Simpson introduced most of America of 17 points over last year. to DNA evidence, public and media interest in forensic science has skyrocketed. More than 26 million weekly viewers, for example, have made African, Latino/a, Asian and Native American CSI the most popular program on American (ALANA) enrollments also are up this year, with television. Dramatic series such as Law and 470 ALANA undergraduates currently registered Order have a cult following; Court TV and like for classes, compared to 420 last year. Of the programming bring real trials into living rooms. 140 first-year ALANA students expected to begin classes this fall, about 25 graduated from Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx An increasing number of prospective college and City on a Hill in Boston, institutions with students, including UVM applicants, are looking which UVM has a partnership agreement.