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UVM Professor Receives Fulbright Award To Study Refugee Integration In Classrooms

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published August 10, 2017 at 1:16 PM EDT

What can educators do to help integrate refugees into their new communities? An associate professor at the University of Vermont will lead an effort to find out, thanks to a Fulbright award to conduct research on refugee integration in western Canada.

Barri Tinkler, an associate professor in the College of Education and Social Services at UVM, has been selected as a Fulbright Canada Research Chair and will be headed to the University of Calgary to follow through on this research.

VPR spoke to Tinkler to learn more about her research and how she hopes it'll inform teaching in Vermont.

Listen to the interview audio above.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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