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The UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is often featured in regional, national, and international news. There are many stories of faculty, student, and alumni successes to celebrate. Catch up on CALS' breaking news here.

Newsworthy Successes

Natalia Aristizabal Uribe smiling from within a coffee plant

Coffee, Conservation, and Collaboration: FSRC PhD Fellow Natalia Aristizábal Uribe
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New naturalistic garden takes root at Votey Building
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Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment: UVM changes the name of its ag program
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Jason Konefal to join UVM as Chair of the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics
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Attitudes Such As a Distrust of Government Can Cause Swine Farmers to Resist Animal Biosecurity: UVM Study Finds

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08/07/2024

Meet Judith Anglin - New Chair of CALS Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

Judith Anglin’s career in Nutrition is an impressive list of accomplishments that include life-changing nutrition research, preventative medicine, food product development as well as advocating to members of Congress to reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes.   ...

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07/17/2024

FSRC PhD Fellow studies the connection between human health and dairy fat

Victoria Taormina is a Food Systems Research Center PhD Fellow and a PhD student in the Animal and Veterinary Sciences Department. Victoria graduated from UVM in 2019 with a bachelor's in Dietetics, Nutrition, and Food Science and now works with Dr. Jana Kraft conducting research focused on...

07/15/2024

Taylor Swift’s Impact on Fans’ Body Image Attitudes Mostly Positive

First study on the health effects of Taylor Swift’s celebrity finds an overall positive influence on fans’ attitudes on body image and disordered eating. Taylor Swift’s past struggles with body image, disordered eating, and body objectification have had an overall...

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07/10/2024

It’s Agricultural Fair and Exhibition Season: Do You Know How to Protect Your Show Animals?

Agricultural fairs and exhibitions are in full swing across the U.S., and with the recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in dairy cows, it is important to know how to protect animals from diseases before,...

A young woman is standing with a Holstein dairy cow at an agricultural fair.

06/28/2024

A "Fitbit" For Cows: UVM Researcher Studies How Data Can Improve Efficiency on Dairy Farms

Dr. Joao Costa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and a Food Systems Research Center Faculty Fellow. In this video, he discusses his research into how data can improve efficiency on dairy farms. Traditionally, farms have used simple data for decision-...

Joao Costa with a cow

06/26/2024

Meet Chris Donovan, Data Scientist

The Food Systems Research Center is pleased to announce that Chris Donovan has joined the team as its new Data Scientist. His background is in conservation biology, and he has conducted botanical fieldwork and research throughout the West. Before coming to Vermont, he was working with The Nature...

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06/06/2024

Meet Susie Walsh Daloz, Programs and Operations Manager

Susie Walsh Daloz is excited to join the UVM Food Systems Research Center (FSRC) as the new Programs and Operations Manager, where she will...

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05/30/2024

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

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...

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

05/30/2024

FSRC Graduate Fellow: Bailey Kretzler

Bailey Kretzler is a PhD student in the department of Plant and Soil Science and Food Systems Research Center...

05/24/2024

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...

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05/23/2024

Two Exceptional Rising Seniors in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Department

Angelina Carando is a microbiology major with a pharmacology minor who received the 2024 Alexander Kende Academic Merit Award. This award is given for demonstrated leadership, exemplary character traits, and service to the local community to UVM in students who have...

2 UVM students, one in Italian plaza and one in New Zealand mountains

05/17/2024

Graduate Elisabeth Roadcap: Molecular Genetics Major Wins Forcier Award As Outstanding Senior

When Elisabeth Roadcap came to UVM it was in the middle of the worst health disaster in modern memory.  So, starting in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department had a unique urgency.  It was with the Covid pandemic as a backdrop that she entered this unique program, which is...

Elisabeth Roadcap sitting for an interview

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