Laura Hill, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Plant Biology, wins the 2024 Outstanding Community-Engaged Learning Faculty Award

Department Chair and College Dean flank CELO Award recipient Laura Hill at Awards Ceremony

Though Hill has been a successful Senior Lecturer beloved by students in UVM’s Plant Biology department since 2009, her passion for community learning began when she recognized a hard truth about her teaching: "Talking about global change, climate change, and biodiversity loss in the classroom is depressing, and it's really hard to stay hopeful when you have to engage with this really hard...

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Ayden Carpenter, UVM student sits for an interview

Rising Senior Ayden Carpenter wins Outstanding Leadership and Engagement Award for Undergraduate Students of Color

Ayden Carpenter wasn’t sure about moving from Washington, D.C. to Vermont to attend UVM. Part of his hesitation was that he just didn’t know what to expect.  “I definitely didn't really know what I was getting myself into.  I looked at all the numbers and I knew that Vermont was a very white state. That's nothing you can like shy away from. But actually, Vermont is a very welcoming place.

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