Lexi Krupp
Reporter, Science & HealthLexi covers science and health stories for Vermont Public.
Previously, she was a science reporter at a public radio station in northern Michigan and a podcast producer at Gimlet Media in New York City. Her work has appeared on NPR, Here & Now, and in Audubon, Popular Science, VICE, and Medscape. Krupp also worked as a science teacher, and once spent a summer tracking mountain goats for the U.S. Forest Service.
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At a hearing Wednesday, a federal court judge said he would consider Mahdawi's potential release next week. Mahdawi is a student at Columbia University who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Colchester following a citizenship interview this month. -
A USDA program cut by the Trump administration would have provided more than $500,000 for farmers in the state to invest in flood mitigation and other conservation practices. -
The number of electric vehicles has doubled in the state over the past two years, but they're still below targets to meet Vermont's emission reduction requirements. -
Wild blue mussels have all but disappeared from New England’s coastline, a reality that’s been hard for people who harvest them for a living. Plus, Catholic Vermonters remember Pope Francis, who died Monday, Sen. Peter Welch pushes to permanently extend tele-health services for all Medicare recipients, labor negotiations between teachers and the school board sour in Rutland City, and hunters that sent a tooth from their deer to Vermont Fish and Wildlife can now find out how old that deer was. -
The matter before Judge William K. Sessions III concerns the Vermont federal court’s jurisdiction in a legal challenge to last month’s arrest of Turkish national Rümeysa Öztürk. -
The inpatient psychiatric unit is open to patients ages 12 to 17. The hospital also expanded its beds for adults. -
The canceled grants support vaccine programs and infectious disease detection and prevention. The Department of Mental Health will also lose federal funds that provided community-based support and crisis response. -
After going over budget by more than $100 million over two years, UVM Medical Center has put forward a compromise to state regulators. -
Levine attributes the state's low death rate in part to widespread adherence to public health guidance. He's set to retire this month. -
Every year, Vermont libraries use federal funding to pay for everything from interlibrary loans to audio books and staff training. It's unclear if that funding will continue after June.
