Larner College of Medicine Namesake

Media Coverage of the Larner Gift & Naming of the College of Medicine

Media Coverage for $66 Million Larner Gift
September 26, 2016

As of September 26, media coverage of the $66 million gift from Robert and Helen Larner to the University of Vermont College of Medicine, now the Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont, is the following.

• The Associated Press story – “To train doctors, Vermont school shifts to hands-on learning” – moved on the national and international wire and has been published in at least 150 media outlets, including top-tier media such as:
• New York Times
• Washington Post
• ABC News
• CNBC
• Houston Chronicle
• San Francisco Chronicle
• Washington Times
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Minneapolis Star-Tribune
• St. Louis Post Dispatch
• Chicago Tribune
• Portland Press Herald
• International outlets including the New Zealand Herald and the Arab Times
• The press release we distributed via PR Newswire was picked up by an additional 208 media outlets.
• The gift and the educational reform it enables were featured in the trade outlet Inside Higher Ed and an American Public Media APM Reports interview podcast. The gift was also noted in the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
• In Vermont, the gift announcement event attracted a full house of Vermont media and was covered by all major media outlets in the state.
• A number of major media have expressed interest in doing feature-length trend stories that would focus on the UVM College of Medicine and the Larner gift.

See the report below for links to specific stories.