These are the individual stories of CDAE students, faculty, staff, and alumni that are changing the world by changing themselves and their communities.
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Mike has created a kind of 'second home' for himself in CDAE 273 Project Development and Planning where he has been enrolled in this class as a student and TA and focused his efforts on mobile home issues in Vermont. Read more about Mike >> |
| Theo completed an internship with the Community Economic Development Office (CEDO) in Burlington and co-founded an entrepreneurship club on campus. Read more about Theo >> |
| Service-Learning Coordinator for the 2009 Belize Semester Abroad Program. Read more about Kaela >> |
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Marlow planned, conducted, analyzed, and presented original research for her senior thesis project through the Honors College at UVM, titled Exploring marketing strategies and potential for agricultural tourism farmers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Vermont. Read more about Marlow >> |
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CDAE contributed the most non-perishable goods in the 2008 Campus Kitchens Food Drive. CDAE entrepreneurship students also contributed the revenues from their "Dollar Enterprise" campus-based enterprises. Read more about Campus Kitchens>> |
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Casey completed a summer internship with the Cleveland Food Bank and continues to do good work fundraising and event planning. Read more about Casey >> |
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Andy represented Growing Vermont, the student-operated Vermont products store in the 2008 Matchmaker Event held by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture. Read more about Andy >> |
Kayla Grant |
Kayla spent the fall 2008 semester at UVM and upon returning to Belize, she will be a teaching assistant for the service-learning course Applications in Sustainable Development in the 2009 Belize Semester Abroad Program. Read more about Kayla >> |
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Bob Parsons and Grace Matiru |
Bob Parsons and Grace Matiru were expecting a year-long sabbatical in Kenya to be all about helping rural farmers. They ended up in the middle of post-election violence.Read more about their experience >> |
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Fred Schmidt |
Fred Schmidt co-founded the Center for Rural Studies in 1978. Read more about Fred >> |
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Steve Kappel and Meg O'Donnell |
Steve Kappel and Meg O'Donnell are a dynamic classroom duo and teach two MPA courses on health care policy. Read more about Kappel and O'Donnell>> |
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Amanda Goldstein |
As a graduate student, Amanda has focused on nutritional eating. As part of a course project, she incorporated nutrition lessons for incoming refugees in their language courses. Read more about Amanda >> |
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Asim Zia and Tao Sun |
Asim Zia and Tao Sun joined the CDAE department in fall 2008 in the areas of public administration and public communication, respectively. Read more about Zia and Sun >> |
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Bo Grant |
Bo completed a summer intern for the international public relations firm Crosby-Volmer in Washington DC. Read more about Bo >> |
Molly Daley |
Molly was a summer intern with the New York Department of Public Service's Office of Energy Efficiency and Environment and worked with a team to craft a social marketing campaign around energy efficiency. Read more about Molly >> |
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