An announcement about the move noted that the university would not renew its contract with Coca-Cola, which had exclusive “pouring rights” on the campus and sold about 1.1 million bottles of beverages there each year. Dining services, cafes, and retail stores on campus “will choose a mix of beverages through their own national contracts and local connections, allowing for greater flexibility in addressing environmental and social values in relation to the beverages supplied,” the announcement says.

There was real money tied up in beverage sales under the Coke contract. A Chronicle story about bottled water on campus said that Coca-Cola contributed about $500,000 each year to financial aid, athletics, and other programs at UVM. The announcement says that the university hopes to make up some of that money with sales under new contracts.

The U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday that the 2013 Solar Decathlon will take place at a former Marine Corps air base in Irvine, Calif., rather than on the National Mall in Washington.

The department described the site, now the Orange County Great Park, as an “awesome venue” for the intense, high-profile competition, in which teams of college students vie to build energy-efficient houses. The county is turning the one-time air base into “sustainable parkland for family recreation,” department officials said.

The department also announced the 20 teams selected for the 2013 competition. Nine of the teams have taken part in previous decathlons, and four are from institutions outside the U.S.:

• Arizona State University and the University of New Mexico
• Catholic University of America, George Washington University, and American University
• Czech Technical University
• Hampton University and Old Dominion University
• Middlebury College
• Missouri University of Science and Technology
• Norwich University
• Queens University, Carleton University, and Algonquin College
• Santa Clara University
• Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology
• Stanford University
• Stevens Institute of Technology
• University of Calgary
• University of Louisville, Ball State University, and University of Kentucky
• University of Nevada Las Vegas
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• University of Southern California
• University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College
• Vienna University of Technology
• West Virginia University

Controversy dogged the department’s effort to move the 2011 decathlon away from its long-time Washington location in front of the Smithsonian Institution’s Castle. National Park Service officials said the two-week-plus event was hard on the mall’s grass and soil, and the decathlon was eventually moved to a location south of the Lincoln Memorial.

• Protesters Occupy an Unused Building at U. of California at Davis

• U. of California at Berkeley Chooses Richmond Site for National-Laboratory Campus

• College of the Ozarks Rehabs Building to House New High School

• U. of Rochester Plans 11-Story Student-Housing Tower Off Campus

• American Campus Communities Buys Properties at U. of Maryland at College Park, U. of Texas at Austin

• Plan for New Arizona State U. Campus in Payson Advances

• Penn State Trustees Approve Construction of 6,000-Seat Hockey Arena

• Student Masterminds a Snowboarding Competition on Temple U. Campus

• Delays Push Back Opening of Zaha Hadid’s Museum at Michigan State U. (Michigan State U. photo taken January 18)

• UCLA Will Sell Donated Japanese Garden It Pledged to Maintain in Perpetuity

• Western Illinois U. Opens Phase 1 of Quad Cities Campus, Gets $38-Million for Phase 2

• Princeton U. Plans 326 Units of Faculty and Staff Housing Near Its Campus

In a detail view, you can see a grounds-crew member in a red vehicle plowing a sidewalk.

Campus trees cast long shadows.

This is the view east toward the mountains.

And the view west to downtown Salt Lake City and, beyond that, the lake itself.

• After a $6-Million Renovation, Cole Hall Is Part of Memorial

• Umpqua Community College Opens $6.8-Million Building for Southern Oregon Wine Institute (See the institute’s Web site here)

• Student Group at Drexel U. Plans to Make an 1872 House Smarter and Greener

• Texas Supreme Court Ruling Lets Austin Community College District Move Forward With Hays County Campus

• U. of Iowa Will Get $106.7-Million for 2008 Flood Damage to 2 Complexes

• $33-Million Grant Will Pay for Half of Upgrade for Indiana U. Business School

• Pace U. Will Renovate Manhattan Building for Performing-Arts Programs

• Columbia U. Faces Construction Challenges as It Expands in Harlem

• Connecticut’s Suit Against University Contractor Takes a Novel Turn Toward Antiquity

• Refurbished, Not Demolished: Students Return to Baggins End Domes at U. of California at Davis (An earlier article is here.)

• New Purdue U. Year-Round Schedule Will Make Better Use of Campus

• EPA Honors 5 Universities for Cutting Back on Game-Day Trash

Willard T. Jackson, the former trustee, is a 1951 graduate of the college who went on to become a partner in a Wall Street investment firm. A provision of the gift lets Mr. Jackson and his wife, Carolyn, who is a 1961 Middlebury graduate, continue to live in the property’s farmhouse for the rest of Mr. Jackson’s life.

Mr. Jackson has donated the land in four parcels, the largest and last of which he gave in December. He said he bought most of the property from another alumnus, a former chairman of the college’s Board of Trustees. The college did not give an estimate of the value of the gift.