Mercy Connections adds four new staff members to its team

Mercy Connections, a Burlington-based nonprofit that empowers people to make significant life changes through education, mentoring, entrepreneurship training and community, has added four new staff members to its team. They are Raquel Aronhime, director of education and evaluation; Caroline Olson, AmeriCorps VISTA member; Claire Wheeler, program director of entrepreneurship and small-business development; and Kim Norman Mercer, director of marketing and communications.

University of Vermont cancer researcher elected AAAS fellow

Frances Carr, professor of pharmacology at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and a member of the UVM Cancer Center, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.

Carr was recognized for her distinguished contributions to the field of thyroid hormone biology and pathology, and for her major contributions to science policy for U.S. government agencies.