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by Timothy Dean, Geisel School of Medicine The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine will be awarded a 5-year, $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a study led by Catherine Stanger, PhD, to test the effectiveness of innovative behavioral intervention tools in helping to improve the health of high-risk patients who suffer from Type 1 diabetes—a condition which is difficult and expensive to manage.

Vermont Business Magazine The Burlington Board of School Commissioners announced this evening that Tom Flanagan will be the next Superintendent of the Burlington School District. On Thursday, March 12, the Board voted unanimously to appoint Flanagan to the position.

by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine Leaders of the University of Vermont Medical Center met with the news media Thursday afternoon to update the public on the current status of the first Burlington-area patient to have received a presumptive positive test for novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. He is the second in Vermont. The first was in Bennington less than a week ago. The new information the hospital relayed was that there are two more patients at UVMMC that are being monitored with possible COVID-19, that the visitor protocol has changed to allow for only two visitors for each patient, and that the unnamed patient now being treated is in intensive care in an isolation unit and is in critical condition.

Vermont Business Magazine Today, the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) announced a key decision to store the Amtrak train overnight in the Vermont Rail System (VRS) railyard south of Maple Street. Overnight storage of the Amtrak train in the railyard had been previously identified in a study conducted by the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, but the prior cost was not advantageous, a new, workable solution has been found.

Vermont Business Magazine Park Burlington and the Chittenden Area Transportation Management Association (CATMA) announce the launch of a downtown employee commuter survey to better understand the parking and transportation dynamics in Burlington. Park Burlington is a city council approved public private partnership between the Burlington Business Association (BBA) and the Department of Public Works (DPW).

The last comprehensive commuter survey of employees in the Downtown Improvement District was done by BBA and CATMA in 2008.

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan and local business leaders today called for consumers and businesses to remember their neighborliness in the face of the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Attorney General Donovan urged consumers to resist an urge to hoard and warned Vermonters to report any incidents of price gouging or COVID-19-related scams to his office. The Attorney General also released a plain language guidance for businesses on topics related to COVID-19.

Vermont Business Magazine The Burlington Board of School Commissioners will hold a vote to appoint the next leader of Burlington School District at a special board meeting on Thursday. The meeting will take place at 6 PM in the Edmunds Middle School library. More than 20 individuals applied for the position and a search committee comprised of board members, staff, and parents worked to narrow the field to three qualified candidates.

Vermont Department of Health On Wednesday March 11, health officials announced a second person tested presumptive positive for COVID-19 in Vermont. The Chittenden County adult is being treated at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. The test is considered presumptive pending Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmation. The first person in Vermont tested presumptive positive in Bennington County March 7.

Vermont Business Magazine In response to its growing Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) healthcare manufacturing business, advanced contract manufacturing and injection molding company GW Plastics, Inc has announced another expansion of its affiliate, GW Silicones. This additional expansion in Royalton will create space for multiple new programs the company is launching to support its steadily increasing healthcare business.

​Vermont Business Magazine The Northwestern Medical Center Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Gerald “Jerry” Barbini as interim chief executive officer and Dawn Bugbee as interim chief administrative officer. Barbini and Bugbee succeed CEO Jill Berry Bowen, RN, who previously announced plans to transition from her role this year.

Vermont Business Magazine Sugarbush Resort announces the 2020 Wall of Fame class. Similar to a Hall of Fame, Sugarbush’s Wall of Fame seeks to recognize some of the most significant contributors to the Sugarbush experience from 1958 to the present. The Sugarbush Wall of Fame was established last year as part of the resort’s 60^th Anniversary Celebration.

Vermont Business Magazine Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) Secretary Julie Moore invites the public to join her on Tuesday, March 17 from 4 to 5 pm to discuss a variety of environmental topics. The conversation will start with a discussion on the Lake Memphremagog Brown Bullhead Lesion Investigation.