Families and staff congratulated recipients of the 18th annual Rose Black Nursing Excellence and seventh annual LNA Excellence in Clinical Practice awards during Nurses Week celebrations at The University of Vermont Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) on May 9.

Col. Matthew T. Birmingham, director of the Vermont State Police, is pleased to announce the following transfer: Lt. Robert McKenna, Assistant Staff Operations Commander, to director/Internal Affairs Unit at Headquarters. Lt. McKenna has served the people of Vermont since graduating from the Vermont Police Academy in 2004, after which he was assigned to the Rutland Barracks as a trooper. He continued in that position until he transferred in 2013 to the Southern Vermont Drug Task Force, then received a promotion to sergeant with that unit two years later.

The University of Vermont has announced three new recipients of its Distinguished Professor Award, the highest academic honor that the university can bestow on a faculty member. University Distinguished Professors are recognized as having achieved international eminence within their respective fields of study and for the truly transformative nature of their contributions to the advancement of knowledge.

Faculty receiving this award in 2019 are: