A partnership between Larner medical students Jasmine Bazinet-Phillips ’25, M.S.Ed., and Ashwini Sarathy ’25 has led to several grant-funded initiatives to address literacy and nutrition disparities among underserved families in the Burlington area. The pair obtained a City Market Co-op Seedling Grant in 2022 based on their student outreach project, “Promoting Childhood Literacy in New Immigrant Burlington Families,” co-authored by Jennifer Covino, M.D.

Tuning in to the season’s themes of thankfulness and family, a children’s picture book titled "The Family Squeeze," written by Christian Pulcini, M.D., M.P.H., M.Ed., assistant professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics, shows how the power of physical touch—to both celebrate good times and endure tough times—brings a family together and builds resilience.

In a new publication from Tyler Erath, PhD, research indicates that adolescent smoking risk increases corresponding to the cumulative number of psychosocial and health risks experienced in their cumulative-risk model.

(DECEMBER 10, 2024) Infectious disease physician Lindsay Smith, M.D., M.A., assistant professor of medicine, and John Ahern, Pharm.D., clinical associate professor of medicine, an infectious disease pharmacist at UVMMC, discussed the correct use of antibiotics with WCAX-TV.

(DECEMBER 9, 2024) A new study led by Mark Nelson, Ph.D., reveals how electrical and calcium signaling work as one to regulate blood flow in the brain, according to Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN).