By Brian MacQuarrie GLOBE STAFF 
Students at the University of Vermont are seen during a mindfulness exercise as part of Professor Jim Hudziak’s Healthy Brains/Healthy Bodies class.
Students at the University of Vermont are seen during a mindfulness exercise as part of Professor Jim Hudziak’s Healthy Brains/Healthy Bodies class.
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The University of Vermont has long had a reputation as a party school, perhaps the legacy of work-hard, play-hard students who liked to hit the slopes as well as the books.
But now, led by a medical school professor who totes a brain-shaped football to class, the university is expanding a dormitory program where drugs and alcohol are out and round-the-clock incentives for healthy living are in.The first-year project, called the Wellness Environment, includes 120 freshmen chosen from three times that number of applicants. Because of its popularity, the program will nearly quadruple next academic year and move to a second residence hall.
“If they can get really good health habits now, we’ve done our job,” said Annie Stevens, vice provost for student affairs.
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