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Welcome to the graduate pages for the Rubenstein School. The faculty of the School are dedicated to applied environmental research in service of society and have very active research programs. They take an integrated approach to their research projects, work with other faculty teams in the School, and collaborate nationally and internationally with other researchers. The School has 39 faculty with an additional 7 faculty with adjunct appointments. The School seeks to maintain a relatively small graduate program size in order to keep its personal and community-oriented atmosphere. Student work spans the disciplines from pollution ecology to environmental philosophy. Thus, to keep both formal and informal interaction among students and disciplines, the right size is a community of between 70 to 100 active graduate students. Environmental research in the School spans many academic disciplines and integrates across these fields through both new topics and more established interdisciplinary subjects. Faculty use terms like ecological economics, conservation biology, and sustainable community development to describe the research they work on. Graduate students interact frequently with their "hand-picked" Graduate Studies Committee to discuss the development and progress of their class work and research. In addition, students interact with each other and the administration of the School through the Rubenstein Graduate Student Association (RGSA). Among other activities, this group organizes informal introductory meetings with faculty to begin to get students and faculty to know each other, and to make selections of students' Studies Committees easier. The RGSA also administers a small grants program each semester to provide incidental and often critical funding for students' research. Another important role in student life that the RGSA plays is hosting the occasional ice cream social and working to improve and maintain facilities like the Graduate Student Center. Recognizing the overlap and interconnectedness between the disciplines and research of the faculty, we invite you to explore the dimensions of graduate work in the School. This seeming complexity reflects our commitment as a faculty to overcome disciplinary boundaries that might constrain the way we think about and research environmental issues. If you have similar interests and dedication to environmental research, we encourage you to join our School. At the Rubenstein School, we welcome your inquiries and visits. Professors are extremely busy, so you'll have to be both patient and persistent. Contact Graduate Program Student Services Specialist Carolyn Goodwin Kueffner at cgoodwin@uvm.edu or (802) 656-2511 for information on the entire application process. We look forward to meeting you and hope that being a graduate student in RSENR will be a rewarding and productive experience. |
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