Awards and Honors

On May 6, Connell Gallagher, library professor emeritus, was given the Center for Research on Vermont’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Gallagher served as university archivist and curator of manuscripts for 36 years  and then as director of Research Collections (1989-2006). Since retiring, he’s consulted at Vermont libraries, including at Marlboro College, the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Champlain College and at the Underhill Historical Society. He’s served as president of the Vermont Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2012. Read more about the Center for Research on Vermont awards.

Senior lecturer of English emeritus Daniel Lusk's genre-bending short essay, "Bomb," which first appeared 2014 in the literary journal NEW LETTERS (University of Missouri-Kansas City), has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and will appear in the 2016 anthology Pushchart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses.

The University of Vermont won the Carbon Cup for macro organizations (sized 750 employees or more) in the statewide Way to Go! Smart Trip Challenge this May. One hundred fifty-two competitors from UVM made 1,177 total trips via alternative transportation (bus, bike, walk, telecommute, or carpool), saving an estimated 14,603 lbs of carbon dioxide from the air.