ALE Events and News | The University of Vermont

There is so much happening in Agriculture, Landscape and Environment from club events to final presentations, our students can network, socialize, supplement their coursework with fascinating panels, and get involved in their field. We mean professional field, but you can dig in however you like in ALE!

ALE News

A Grain for a Changing Planet

Terry Bradshaw Receives CALS' Highest Faculty Award

Hurley Served on a National Academies Consensus Committee

New UVM/USDA Food Systems Research Station Opens

New Research Offers "Alternative Farmhouse" Model to Identify Barriers, Opportunities for Agriculture to Build a Healthier World

First U.S. Online Master’s Program in Agroecology Welcomes Inaugural Cohort at UVM

Building Water Resilient Agricultural Systems

Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasingly frequent extreme weather events are reshaping agriculture around the world. In...

Two UVM Doctoral Candidates Are Awarded Prestigious USDA Predoctoral Fellowships

For University of Vermont doctoral candidates Blair Christensen and Michelle Nikfarjam, earning the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s most...

UVM Master’s Student, Liliana Bettolo, Honored with the CALS Graduate Research Excellence Award

Graduate student Liliana Bettolo has been awarded the Graduate Research Excellence Award for her outstanding research on climate-resilient...

Institute for Agroecology Founding Faculty Co-Director Receives UVM University Scholar Award

Twenty years ago Ernesto Méndez joined the University of Vermont, deepening the university's commitment to agroecology. The founding faculty...

Looking Back to Move Forward - Why History Matters for the Future of Food

Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui, along with several other authors, recently published “Looking back to move forward: historical Agroecology and...

ALE Raymond Seminar Series

Graduate student giving a presentation with a slide that reads "Hypotheses"

Join us for regular seminars featuring special guests, faculty and graduate students presenting on a variety of topics.

All made possible by the generous support of William T. Raymond Memorial Fund.

ALE Events You Won't Want to Miss!

Student in a landscape design studio with drawings on the walls

Department Chooses New Name

Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment: UVM changed the name of its agriculture and landscape design program, reflecting shifts in the field and the interests of today’s students. It has also divided the two majors into Agroecology and Ecological Landscape Planning and Design.

Department Chooses New Name

UVM Receives nearly $400K for “Serious Games” to Promote Healthy Food Policy

The University of Vermont has received nearly $400,000 in support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support an interdisciplinary team’s use of “serious game” technology to test how policies across the food system can better support access to healthy foods.

Gamification of Agriculture