Visual artist, graffiti scholar and educator Will Kasso Condry of Brandon has been named winner of the inaugural Vermont Prize. The award, administered by Burlington City Arts in collaboration with the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, The Current and Hall Art Foundation, carries a $5,000 cash prize.

Ramsey Herrington, MD, associate professor of surgery at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, has been appointed as inaugural chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, effective July 1. Herrington joined the UVM faculty in 2006 and has served as division chief of emergency medicine since 2017. In 2021, he was appointed as the inaugural Emergency Medicine Health Care Service leader for the UVM Health Network.