In addition, UVM's strategic plan highlights both health and the environment, so (in addition to its intrinsic value), networking with the medics may dovetail nicely with UVM support of some kind. http://www.uvm.edu/~presdent/?Page=strategic_planning/strategicplan.html Best to all, Alison P.S. Sebastian, if John Cohn isn't already subscribed to the EWB, would you invite him to join?