CUPS Recognizes the Nominees and Awardees for the 2012 Service-Learning Awards

NOMINEES

Outstanding Service-Learning Student

Joshua Carrera 
Zoe Hoffman
Hillary Laggis
Samuel Porter
Katy Reynolds

Outstanding Service-Learning Student Group

Hillary Laggis & Caleb Brabant
Storm Leland, Hayley Willliams, & Jordan Walsh

Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty

Erin Buckwalter, Community Development & Applied Economics
David Conner & Kate Finley-Woodruff, Community Development & Applied Economics
Thomas Patterson, Community Development & Applied Economics 
Luis Vivanco, Anthropology
Beverly Wemple, Geography

Outstanding Service-Learning Community Partner

JoEllen Calderara, Central VT Long-Term Recovery Committee
Ray Daigle, Nancy Spencer, Jeff Robins, Jon Kerrigan, & Dave Jacobs, Harwood Union High School
Kelly Hamshaw, UVM Research Specialist in collaboration with the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity
Rob Peterson, Amber Renshaw, & Jay Renshaw, VT Department of Forests, Parks, & Recreation and Niquette Bay State Park
Joshua Schwartz, Valley Futures Network & the Mad River Valley Planning District

Outstanding Achievement Award

Thomas Hudspeth, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources

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On April 25th, the CUPS office announced the recipients of its Service-Learning Awards at the 8th Annual CUPS Recognition Reception.  Nominations were judged on the quality of engaged scholarship demonstrated in courses between Spring 2011 and 2012 semesters.  

The Outstanding Service-Learning Student Award was presented to Joshua Carrera, a senior in the Rubenstein School, for his student leadership in NR 185: Communities, Conservation, and Development in Costa Rica.  In addition to serving as a translator throughout the 9-day spring break trip to a small rural village in Southwestern Costa Rica, Josh was in charge of organizing and implementing a videography project aimed at telling the story of the town through informal interviews and documentation.    

The Outstanding Service-Learning Student Group Award was presented to Storm Leland, Hayley Williams, & Jordan Walsh for their impressive work in CDAE 295: Applications of Sustainable Development in Belize.  The trio spent a semester engaged with Mary Open Doors, a small domestic violence prevention shelter; they worked to increase the capacity of the organization, including developing and distributing information about HIV/AIDS and domestic abuse prevention.  

The Outstanding Community Partner Award was awarded to JoEllen Calderara, Central VT Long-Term Recovery Committee, for her work in collaboration with the Rebuilding Vermont course both semesters this academic year.  JoEllen went above and beyond to coordinate meaningful activities for the students to directly assist victims of Tropical Storm Irene: students cleaned out homes, manned donations stations, washed and folded laundry that needed to be disinfected, and worked alongside families to embark on the road to recovery.  

The Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award was awarded to Luis Vivanco, Anthropology, for two specific courses: Anthropology of Media, where students produced public service announcements for the Safe Streets Collaborative, and Bicycles, Globalization, and Sustainability, where students conducted research with Local Motion and the bicycle advisory committee of UVM's Parking and Transportation Services.  Luis has been praised by students and community partners for his enthusiasm, passion, commitment to service-learning, and commitment to meaningful relationships between students, faculty, and community partners.  

The CUPS Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to long-time CUPS supporter, collaborator, and friend Thomas Hudspeth, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources.  Tom has demonstrated his dedication to community-university engagement over the course of his 40-year career at UVM, integrating service-learning into his courses, sustaining long-term partnerships with local organizations and schools, and serving as  CUPS Advsiroy Committee member as well as participating in numerous CUPS initiatives and workshops.  

Click here to see 2012 Service-Learning Photo Contest winners and submissions

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CUPS Advisory Committee Chair Professor Mandar Dewoolkar welcomes a full audience to the Reception.  

    

Rubenstein School senior Joshua Carrera receives the Outstanding Service-Learning Student Award from CUPS Director Carrie Williams Howe and CUPS Program Assistant Elise Schadler. 

     

CUPS work-study student Amira Solimon announces the winners of the fourth annual Service-Learning Photo Contest.  

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